Example sentences of "extent to [pron] a [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 . |