Example sentences of "have [verb] to a [adj] extent " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Politburo has bowed to a considerable extent to the parliament 's wishes . |
| 2 | At the same time it is argued that the ability of law to order social and political reality has decreased to a surprising extent . |
| 3 | However , this has happened to a considerable extent under the banner of the Welsh Office and , although clearly much affected by events in the United Kingdom as a whole , and particularly in England , the Principality now enjoys a measure of devolution in educational matters . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The offeror and its financial advisers will therefore have to work to a large extent in isolation in determining the right level of consideration . |
| 6 | The Mid-Ulster dialects may therefore have preserved to a great extent an older general English vowel pattern , and they may help us to project knowledge of the present on the past . |
| 7 | When I back there I am sure I will have changed to a certain extent and I hope it will have helped to develop my managerial skills . ’ |
| 8 | But this premise was there at that time and by oh I had to go to a great extent on a number of visits and they er granted it me on compassionate grounds and there 's er I was only looking in the back of there the other day and there 's one there now . |
| 9 | During the hearing the court received information that W. 's condition had deteriorated to a serious extent . |
| 10 | This had ominous implications for a party whose political strength in the 1980s had rested to a large extent on its competence in managing economic prosperity . |
| 11 | Of course all large firms try to gain this sort of flexibility and the fact that they are large indicates that they have succeeded to a greater extent than their smaller rivals . |
| 12 | Maybe I have succeeded to a small extent , but there 's still plenty I want to know . |
| 13 | However , despite these differences , both firms have drawn to a significant extent on the same pool of local labour , often on the same families . |