Example sentences of "what extent [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To what extent students on such a degree would also need to read poetry in another language is a difficult question . |
| 2 | It is not at all clear to what extent threats of violence to third parties will negative consent . |
| 3 | To what extent will business shift from banking to other types of lending ? |
| 4 | Where the alleged breach consists of the exercise of a contractual power in a particular way , it is unclear to what extent principles of public law ( as opposed to the ordinary law of contract ) can be used as criteria for judging whether the action taken was an abuse of the power . |
| 5 | It is necessary to consider , however , to what extent teachers can develop within their children the ability to evaluate their own progress and achievement in a project . |
| 6 | I can not remember to what extent organ donation was common in 1967 , but the Latey Committee expressly recommended that only 18-year-olds and older should be authorised by statute to consent to giving blood : see paragraphs 485–489 . |
| 7 | But again there is the problem of knowing to what extent inputs are associated with outcomes and how relevant are any statistical associations found . |
| 8 | To what extent feminism offers a new way of doing things , of organising for change . |
| 9 | The issue is to what extent Marxism is dependent on atheism . |
| 10 | Subsequently applied to geography as a whole , Bennett and Chorley ( 1978 ) produced a text which attempted to explore firstly the extent to which systems theory provided an interdisciplinary focus for environmental matters and to what extent systems technology provides an adequate vehicle ; and secondly to ascertain the manner in which systems approaches aid in the development of an integrated theory relating social and economic theory to physical and biological theory . |
| 11 | Consider now to what extent changes in a country 's monetary variables may be responsible for cyclical variations in real output . |
| 12 | To what extent boys were conscious of the loss of love — in its practical and immediate manifestation — is impossible to say : mechanisms of denial come quickly into operation to deal with such enormities . |
| 13 | Although this procedure removes the contam-ination of the observer , it is far from clear to what extent adults are able to reconstruct the context of their previous linguistic encounters with children , and how far post hoc interpretations regarding what was said and what was meant are subject to distortion . |
| 14 | Hence , their views , based as they are on personal first-hand experiences , form an important body of evidence about whether or to what extent Britain lives up to its reputation as a liberal democratic country . |
| 15 | It is arguable to what extent Magnus Magnusson was personally responsible for the composition of the Cairngorm group and he issued a public statement saying he was most willing to meet with voluntary groups . |
| 16 | There is a context of relevance through which deixis is received , and we need to know to what extent analogy with other texts is pertinent . |
| 17 | But these theories have not been tested , and can not be tested , without systematic empirical study of whether and to what extent governments change — and whether change sometimes involves contraction as well as growth . |
| 18 | And it remains a matter of debate to what extent Luke is exercising editorial privilege in his accounts of the apostolic preaching . |
| 19 | Thus , it is uncertain whether and to what extent consent may be regarded as absent where the defendant uses neither violence nor the threat of it . |
| 20 | M-tense can be given a purely deictic and strictly temporal interpretation , but it is an empirical question as to what extent L-tenses can also be treated in the same way . |
| 21 | It is concerned with the forms energy can take , how efficiently it can be used and to what extent energy can be made available for useful work . |
| 22 | It is not clear to what extent reformulations would count as special . |
| 23 | I would suggest that this exercise involves two stages — firstly defining those aspects of transport services which should be covered by such an audit , and secondly , attempting to devise measurable indicators which are appropriate to use in describing to what extent transport services meet aspirations in each area . |
| 24 | The question remains to what extent Wilson himself was a contributing factor to the debacle . |
| 25 | It is impossible to say to what extent Cézanne was aware of the fact that he was doing this , and in the process breaking the laws of scientific linear perspective , but it seems likely that it was part of a natural desire to emphasize the two-dimensional aspect of the canvas while continuing to explain the nature of objects and also insisting on their solidity by modelling them as fully as possible . |
| 26 | However , it is too soon to say with any degree of certainty to what extent computerization spells the end of TNC jobs in the Third , or in the First World ( Caulkin , 1989 ) . |
| 27 | A field investigation is being carried out to assess to what extent trace components can be relied upon to identify the source of landfill gas . |
| 28 | It is difficult to comprehend to what extent Leonard felt the sense of this over-arching , life-elevating principle . |
| 29 | We do not yet know to what extent chimps use their potential in the wild . |
| 30 | I wondered to what extent Fordham thought that his own response to this scrutiny was shared by his fellow professionals . |