Example sentences of "extent to [pron] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | Yet even here the actual extent to which the rural landscape was altered is considerably less than we might suppose . |
4 | By then the extent to which the Black movement was an appropriate model was irrelevant . |
5 | Discuss the extent to which the cyclical fluctuations observed in question ( 3 ) may be a result of : ( a ) monetary variables ; ( b ) random disturbances . |
6 | 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 . ) |
7 | 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 . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | The fact that Freeman is writing primarily for the social work profession is apparent , for instance , in the extent to which the legal regulation of substitute care is dealt with in depth . |
13 | This is not to say that his own particular method of synthesising them was necessarily valid , but it does underline the extent to which the modern problems spring from the disintegration of the medieval framework . |
14 | The Council asked " the conference to consider the extent to which the following rights [ as proposed by the Spanish government ] could be enshrined in the treaty so as to give substance to the concept of citizenship : |
15 | The focus of this paper is an examination of the extent to which the recent developments in the use of computers in history teaching and research have prepared historians for the study of history in the future . |
16 | In the 1970s , and especially in the wake of the two general elections of 1974 , the extent to which the electoral system was capable of fulfilling such functions became a matter of controversy . |
17 | These proposals were not adopted , they were seldom referred to although in the USA much physical geography did not develop in geography departments , but exactly 50 years later a paper with the same title as Barrows 's ( Chorley , 1973 ) sought to examine the extent to which the ecological approach to geography provided a unifying link between the human and physical sides of the subject . |
18 | Rules deal with such things as the use of Hansard and the extent to which the long title can be used in interpretation . |
19 | For the future , research needs to address the extent to which these dimensions of organization imperatives do form coherent patterns ; the extent to which the coherent patterns form national clusters ; and the extent to which they relate to more common criteria of organizational analysis such as the Aston measures . |
20 | erm So it 's rather smaller erm and in that sense differs , because of the extent to which the federal states have their , have their own powers and their own responsibilities . |
21 | Covenant politics has come to the forefront again with the Hillsborough agreement of 1985 and shows the extent to which the populist politics of the Democratic Unionists is rooted in protestant — loyalist tradition . |
22 | It was then more than a misjudgement : it revealed the extent to which the religious intellectuals ' theory of church and state was outdated and incoherent . |
23 | The improvement in performance that occurs with training was held to depend not just on the strengthening of the association between the stimulus — word and the response — word but also on a reduction in the extent to which the various words tend to be confused . |
24 | A closer look at class composition and role will put flesh on the bones of distribution statistics and also explain the extent to which the various classes have acted as agents of change . |
25 | Even more problematical is the extent to which the higher costs generated in the South-East were passed on as external diseconomies to the rest of the economy : whether London was , and indeed continues to be , in Cobbett 's phrase , ‘ this monstrous Wen … sucking up the vitals of the country ’ . |
26 | The extent to which the external auditor can dispense with detailed work depends in no small part on the effectiveness of the system of internal control . |
27 | Based on detailed interviews with unemployed people who have attended courses , it should provide valuable information about the effectiveness ( or otherwise ) of the provision and the extent to which the liberal model , the social purpose model and/or the socialist community action model are implemented in practice . |
28 | Your postmortem analysts , presumably trying to apportion blame evenly between the principal opposition parties , seriously over-estimate the extent to which the Liberal Democrats are in charge of their own electoral fate . |
29 | This analysis may also help to assess the extent to which the central contradiction in Anderson 's character , his apparently greater interest in football than his academic field of ethics , displays itself in conversation . |
30 | The changing nature of these relationships can tell us much about broader aspects of political change in Mexico , in particular the extent to which the corporatist pact with peasants , labour and popular sectors has been eroded by the impact of the economic crisis and the search for new forms of political representation within civil society . |