Example sentences of "to [art] extent " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the APT was so ideally suited to the needs of the West Coast main line and offered the possibility of major train service improvements , BR — regrettably as matters transpired — became wedded to the project to the extent that no other traction possibility was considered . |
| 2 | We can only hope that the future will see technological advance : perhaps overhead power lines will carry DC in preference to AC to the extent that converters are used to generate AC domestically or industrially . |
| 3 | There might be regrets over giving up the novel , but after having been deeply interested in that form for many years ( even to the extent of writing one ) and often teaching courses on the novel , I have come to the conclusion that the pedagogic difficulties involved are extreme . |
| 4 | Such a one may feel that Pound 's ‘ writing off ’ of England , his abandonment of her — physically in 1920 , in imagination some years earlier — was abundantly justified , to the extent indeed that it was not so much his justified rejection of her , as her unjustifiable rejection of him . |
| 5 | And it is worth dwelling on that , to the extent of calling into evidence another of Bottome 's books , The Gaol ( 1962 ) , p.240 : |
| 6 | The scale on which Pound was working was not clear even to the poet himself ; so that the eleven cantos which he originally designated as ‘ preparation of the palette ’ are now by responsible commentators considerably extended — to the extent that the first thirty cantos , which are all that the twenties knew of the poem ( A Draft of XVI Cantos ( Paris , June 1925 ) ; A Draft often Cantos 17–27 ( 100 copies , September 1928 ) ; and A Draft of XXX Cantos ( 210 copies , August 1930 ) ) , are now often regarded as laying out no the painter 's palette the hues that only in subsequent cantos would be combined to polemical and imaginative purpose . |
| 7 | Completed shortly after he got out of the university , Nice Work retreated from academe to the extent of featuring a central character — Vic Wilcox , a dour Midlands MD — who , almost uniquely among his fictional creations , would not have read the novels of David Lodge . |
| 8 | No boxing match seems too trivial for live coverage , basketball and volleyball draw vast audiences , Formula One racing grips the nation and there is an inexhaustible appetite for football , to the extent that Saturday night English soccer is a major viewing habit . |
| 9 | His critics point out that the pardon has proved deeply unpopular and , to the extent that it is likely to encourage the armed forces to insist on a public vindication , could have the opposite effect . |
| 10 | The localized system of medico-pedagogical influence on a child , in so far as it is differentiated in an institution for social education , ought to prevail to the extent that it is in accordance with the natural needs of the child and to the extent that it opens creative prospects for the development of the given structure — biological , social , and economic . |
| 11 | The localized system of medico-pedagogical influence on a child , in so far as it is differentiated in an institution for social education , ought to prevail to the extent that it is in accordance with the natural needs of the child and to the extent that it opens creative prospects for the development of the given structure — biological , social , and economic . |
| 12 | To the extent that her position was based on a reputation as a creative world leader or participant in great events , it was a partial deception . |
| 13 | There were limits to the extent to which the post-1945 consensus could be overturned . |
| 14 | Britain became obsessed with the conviction that its very existence as a great power hinged upon the possession of India , to the extent that all major policies — Britain 's activities in Africa , for example , or in the Mediterranean , and even its alignments in Europe — were deduced from the supposed requirements of the Indian Empire and the Route to India . |
| 15 | For me , movies and play were enmeshed during childhood , a certain cinema and its environs being both stimulus and setting for my juvenile adventures to the extent that , thirty years later , its contours and hidey holes still haunt my dreams . |
| 16 | Perhaps this is the mode of transgression denied to the hermaphrodite , at least to the extent that s/he is associated with the mythological , the presocial , the transcendent . |
| 17 | Behind this exchange — which perhaps need not be taken too seriously — there lies the fear that a victory for the Labour party in a general election would constitute a repudiation of the King 's actions in August , To the extent that the National Government was formed through the agency of the King , a repudiation of the National Government could be conceived of as a repudiation of the King . |
| 18 | However , Attlee 's position was a complex one : he was more ready than anyone to criticize strategic arguments used to justify such expenditure , but was never willing to push the arguments to the extent of causing a serious rift with Bevin , who was perhaps the key minister in the government after Attlee . |
| 19 | One also had links with government to the extent that the DTI provided launch aid for civil helicopter developments and the Ministry of Defence partfinanced development aid for helicopters , or improvements to them , for defence purposes . |
| 20 | if he permitted African businessmen to grow [ they ] will grow to the extent of becoming a rival power to his and the party 's prestige , and he would do anything to stop it . |
| 21 | While tying is not necessarily incompatible with the fundamental economic objectives of aid , it reduces its potential benefit to the extent that goods are over-priced , or that they are less appropriate — and sometimes much less appropriate — for the job . |
| 22 | It would be far more useful to Africa to have a smaller amount of total aid on this basis , than to retain the present system where thinking and strategy is dominated by donors , to the extent that national governments have almost lost control over public initiatives in their own countries . |
| 23 | This is so to the extent that the claim for a structurally distinct postmodernist mode of signification breaks down in the face of a variety of historical avant-garde practices ranging across Europe from London to Vienna and Moscow in the hands of such as Eliot , Joyce , the Cubists , Surrealists and others ( including , somewhat surprisingly , Kokoschka ) . |
| 24 | To the extent that the Situationists raised questions about cultural hierarchies and the ‘ supersession ’ of art , how should we judge the Fallout period ? |
| 25 | There is no evidence of SI influence in their work , which has quite different intellectual roots , and the article itself leaves no doubt as to the extent of their disapprobation . |
| 26 | The engine itself is unchanged internally , even to the extent of keeping the normally aspirated version 's highish compression ratio . |
| 27 | The men have been exhaustively briefed on drop zones and emergency procedures , as well as the ground plan , to the extent that any man or unit should be able to carry out another 's task . |
| 28 | I was obsessed by new clothes to the extent that I 'd lost interest in something if it was more than a few hours old . |
| 29 | This , as argued here before , is the one question capable of splitting the Tory Party , at least to the extent of creating factions with a passionate attachment to their prejudices , and no great reluctance to insist on them even at the cost of deep party division . |
| 30 | A government-financed horticulture nursery in Belfast falsified the value of its plants for 13 years to the extent that more than £500,000 of public money has had to be written off . |