Example sentences of "extent to [pron] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This short case-study shows the extent to which a multi-plant set of factories is vulnerable to continuing change . |
| 2 | To elaborate the analysis further and make it richer , it is conventional to replace the exogenous investment function with where is the rate of interest and a coefficient indicating the extent to which a higher rate of interest will reduce the planned level of investment in the economy . |
| 3 | The extent to which a powerful magnate could dominate the shire community and act as a focus for local sentiment varied . |
| 4 | When Huston expressed doubts over the extent to which a Russian promise would be respected , ‘ he remarked that the Soviets might indeed be difficult to deal with , but in his experience he had found that the Soviet Government always endeavoured to keep its plighted word ’ . |
| 5 | The extent to which a planned use of tax benefits reduces a recipient 's tax burden is illustrated in the answer to a Parliamentary Question tabled by Gordon Brown , relating to the 1986. -7 tax year . |
| 6 | Erm if er the extent to which a new settlement would generate new trips and that that has a locational implication . |
| 7 | Admittedly , disciplines vary in the extent to which a personal response is expected of students . |
| 8 | But the extent to which a given disability will handicap a person in education , work , social relationships , enjoyment of leisure , etc. , will depend on their social as well as their clinical state , and on the timing of the disability . |
| 9 | One important theme in the remainder of this chapter is the extent to which a modular course design has made it easier or harder to seize opportunities and work within constraints . |
| 10 | There has rarely been a clearer example of the extent to which a Conservative leader sets the keynote for the party the extent to which it is moulded round its leader . |
| 11 | What is less clear is the extent to which a demonstrable need must be proven before they insist on the adoption of otherwise practicable control measures . |
| 12 | Where endowments and factor returns are fixed , the effect of a change in taxation depends on the relative importance of capital and earned income , on the dispersion of these two components and on the extent to which a high capital endowment is correlated with high earning capacity . |
| 13 | These political , economic and legal differences between services define the extent to which a local government 's resources are fungible . |
| 14 | The controversy centres on the extent to which a local authority can use the private law provisions of the Children Act . |
| 15 | There are important questions in relation to housing policy concerning the extent to which a free market can operate and the extent to which public housing authorities should act as if they were private business concerns . |
| 16 | But , as with them , so with Fanon : the criticisms underestimate the extent to which an oppositional humanism transforms in the process of appropriation . |
| 17 | The extent to which an atmosphereless planet can hold on to such volatiles depends on the impact speed of the volatile-rich body and on the gravitational field of the planet . |
| 18 | The Department of Employment ( DoE ) recognised that there was a lack of objective information about open learning material , and particularly about the extent to which an open learning package covered a given area of competence . |
| 19 | In any scientific investigation , the extent to which an observed difference is due only to some deliberate perturbation ( internal validity ) and the extent to which such a difference reflects a real difference in the parent population ( external validity ) is dependent on avoidance of a variety of pitfalls . |
| 20 | Although average rates of commission continue to fall , the minimum commission has tended to rise to around £20-£30 , compared with about £10 before Big Bang , showing the extent to which the small investor has lost out . |
| 21 | A major question posed is the extent to which the professional bodies , including the Engineering Council and the institutions , can be said to be performing a mediating role between the members of the profession and the government ; that is representing the memberships ' interests while also entering into agreements with the government which are likely to limit their members ' freedom of action . |
| 22 | Yet even here the actual extent to which the rural landscape was altered is considerably less than we might suppose . |
| 23 | By then the extent to which the Black movement was an appropriate model was irrelevant . |
| 24 | Discuss the extent to which the cyclical fluctuations observed in question ( 3 ) may be a result of : ( a ) monetary variables ; ( b ) random disturbances . |
| 25 | Knowledge and understanding of them can thus be helpful in our efforts to understand what is happening when flows become turbulent ( although as we shall see in Sections 24.6 and 24.7 , the extent to which the new ideas ‘ solve the problem of turbulence ’ can be — and has been — overstated . ) |
| 26 | Some caution has already been expressed about the extent to which the new GCSE examinations will reach less able children previously excluded from the Certificate of Secondary Education . |
| 27 | Obviously , any saving of the non-productive cost of audit is in the public interest : however , the extent to which the compulsory audit is built into our business fabric should not be minimised ; its removal could cause considerable damage . |
| 28 | There is a substantial overlap here with the fiduciary controls and so this issue will be considered below , and in more detail in Chapter 9 where the extent to which the legal rules are tolerant of expenditure for ‘ socially responsible ’ purposes will be examined . |
| 29 | The succeeding chapters consider the extent to which the legal rules conduce to this desirable result and provide adequate redress in the case of the small number of companies less scrupulously and competently operated . |
| 30 | The study of crime includes how and why the boundaries of crime change , the extent to which the legal definition is accepted , and the reasons why the authorities are more likely to punish certain legally-defined crimes than others . |