Example sentences of "extent the " in BNC.
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| 1 | To a less immediately visible extent the institution of policing is also set up to control those who would publicly demonstrate against the state and its executive powers . |
| 2 | To that extent the SuperCut is also on the right lines , and has some benefits , but for the serious woodcutter it is limiting . |
| 3 | To some extent the heroes and heroines of classical ballet also use occupational gesture when they indicate hores riding , hunting , lute-playing and singing . |
| 4 | To some extent the same idea of an onlooker applies to that of Jaeger , the critic in Enigma Variations . |
| 5 | The document itself was not privileged and to that extent the other side was entitled to see part of the materials with the brief . |
| 6 | It remains unclear to what extent the rebels thought they were operating with America 's blessing . |
| 7 | But what no one seemed prepared or able to tell was to what extent the purity of breed influences the taste of boar . |
| 8 | Market estimates for yesterday 's intervention put the Bank 's purchases of pounds as high as $500m , and there were indications that the authorities may have intervened to a similar extent the day before , when sterling fell almost 6 pfennigs . |
| 9 | To some extent the difference between this view and the developmental approach is one of semantics : the term ‘ global company ’ does not mean the same to each . |
| 10 | To this extent the region was actually encouraging the formation of richer peasant strata at the expense of the poorer . |
| 11 | Anthony Eden , the Foreign Secretary , asked them to what extent the full internationalization of civil aviation was possible . |
| 12 | However , to some extent the neglect of such important issues of the difference in the meaning of marriage and divorce to men and women , the contradictions in the thinking and behaviour of the two sexes , and the negotiation of their positions has something to do with another presentist shadow : that of feminism . |
| 13 | Among the ‘ lower caste ’ people , the woman 's role had always been rather different from her role in the farming castes ; now ‘ lower caste ’ women worked increasingly in the fields alongside the men and this led , according to Mamdani , to ‘ a radical change … in the attitude towards girl children … low caste families do not look upon the birth of a girl with the disfavour they used to ’ — though ‘ to a certain extent the disfavour persists because the girl will marry and emigrate precisely when she has reached the age of greatest productivity ’ . |
| 14 | To some extent the majority of us behave in this way . |
| 15 | It is not clear to what extent the Securitate is now a ‘ state within the state ’ and to what extent it is directly answerable to President Ceausescu , but it is odd that the service 's worst excesses have occurred when the head of state is on an official trip abroad , in this case to Iran . |
| 16 | To what extent the Orange Order , Apprentice Boys of Derry , and Royal Black Preceptory have ever been thoroughly evangelical is debatable . |
| 17 | To a very large extent the movement was urban ; as Arthur Porritt later recalled , the councils ‘ were never as strong in the provincial areas as Law represented ’ . |
| 18 | I believe that our future and the future of the British empire , and therefore to a great extent the future of the human race , depends [ sic ] , under God , upon the extent to which the churches we represent are able to distinguish between denominational loyalty and bigotry … between denominational activity and schism . |
| 19 | To that extent the Football Association were justified in taking this fixture back to the Sheffield stadium only three years after 95 Liverpool supporters died there . |
| 20 | To that extent the results reflect the basis upon which ASWs made decisions , which frequently involved diversion of GP referrals from compulsory admission . |
| 21 | To a certain extent the East Romans , as they were still called , were genuine heirs to the original Roman Empire , their capital having been founded by Constantine the Great in 324–340 . |
| 22 | To some extent the charge of inflexibility can also be countered by reference to the provisions sanctioning exception from the National Curriculum . |
| 23 | It remains unclear to what extent the government and its advisers in the Department of Energy were aware at this stage , as the Hinkley C Inquiry progressed through its first few months , of the true state of nuclear economics . |
| 24 | To some extent the very brilliance of the court life led by the sovereigns and its impact on public opinion was their undoing for the fête impériale is indelibly associated with them . |
| 25 | The US — and to a lesser extent the USSR — will probably wish to maintain their capability to exert military force worldwide , to influence , and if necessary intervene in the affairs of other countries . |
| 26 | To this extent the theory can be seen as incorporating the central feature of Wagner 's ( 1976 , 1981 ) interpretation of the phenomenon — the suggestion that further learning proceeds slowly about a stimulus that has formed associations with its antecedents . |
| 27 | To this extent the context-specificity of latent inhibition is to be interpreted as a retrieval phenomenon . |
| 28 | Different professional institutions may define to a greater or lesser extent the modes and their mix . |
| 29 | To quite a large extent the interests of parasite genes and host genes may coincide . |
| 30 | Many libraries like ourselves have asked themselves to what extent the retention of these books [ rare books ] in any way contributes to the objectives of a modern public library . |