Example sentences of "[verb] to [art] extent " in BNC.
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| 1 | That is to say , there is no subterfuge implied in such an action , and I for one had no intention of overhearing to the extent I did that evening . |
| 2 | We we well we 'd love to be able to get get on with our job and er wi with far less interference than we receive at the moment but er when government insists on er on interfering to the extent it does an and there have been well I 've been reading recently so something like five hundred new powers the Education Secretary has given himself in the in over the last last few years . |
| 3 | My parents are broadminded , liberal and understanding to the extent that I probably could never match . |
| 4 | The money supply is of no intrinsic significance : it only matters to the extent that it may be manipulated in such a way as to achieve other intermediate objectives of macroeconomic policy such as interest rate or exchange rate stability . |
| 5 | For a start , Britain has to an extent been forced by the rules and practices of the EEC artificially to divert her exporting efforts to Europe and away from where they may have been more beneficially employed for her in the rest of the world . |
| 6 | Nevertheless , the greenhouse effect is so efficient that this energy becomes trapped to the extent that it drives up the surface temperatures to the observed values . |
| 7 | I had agreed to be co-author , but it was not until seven years after his retirement that work could begin , for only then had his committee activities abated to an extent which allowed the long periods necessary for writing and discussion . |
| 8 | Instead " the clause must be limited and modified to the extent necessary to enable effect to be given to the main object and intent of the contract " ( per Lord Denning in Sze Hai Tong Bank Ltd v Rambler Cycle Co Ltd [ 1959 ] AC 576 ; see also Alexander v Railway Executive [ 1951 ] 2 KB 882 ) . |
| 9 | The structures of the Pentateuch were good but a stable and wealthy economic society could only flourish to the extent that Israel was obedient to the whole of the law and its commandment . |
| 10 | But , basically , disclosure still remains the principal safeguard on which the Companies Acts pin their faith , and every succeeding Act since 1862 has added to the extent of the publicity required , although , not unreasonably , it varies according to the type of company concerned . |
| 11 | There are few statistics relating to the extent of alcoholism and ageing people in this country . |
| 12 | In retrospect , the Positive Images campaign succeeded to the extent that Haringey Council did not abandon its lesbian and gay rights policies , or disband its Lesbian and Gay Unit . |
| 13 | However , those who operate the law are well aware that it will only be respected to the extent that it conforms with public opinion : the reason why journalists and broadcasters are not prosecuted much more often for undoubted infringements of the letter of the laws of contempt and official secrecy is simply that the authorities are well aware that up-to-the-hilt enforcement of these vague laws would bring the law into further disrepute , and precipitate precisely the sort of clash between government and the press that it has been the British genius to avoid , whenever possible , by cosy arrangements . |
| 14 | Well , there 's nothing , as I understand it there is nothing in the Law Society guidelines but there are certainly references in the professional conduct guidelines which Mr has referred to in the course of this report er which referred to the extent of solicitors in the situation . |
| 15 | The Fao area was repaired to the extent that it was possible for loading to be resumed at a restored Mina al-Bakr terminal . |
| 16 | Because over-heating the gilding will ruin the finish , this stage is not carried to the extent of driving off every trace of mercury , so some evidence of the plating technique is left . |
| 17 | In 1927 Variety 's judgement of Rose of the Tenements was that ‘ New York 's pictorially hackneyed East Side ’ had been used as the setting for ‘ a drab colourless presentation offering little in either entertainment or box office value ’ , and that family problems had not been ‘ dramatized to an extent where the mob can be made to forget the obvious ordinary scheme of things ’ . |
| 18 | Second , although the peer-group norm is characterized by speakers as Dyirbal rather than English , the extent of its Dyirbal admixture ( sometimes only around 50 per cent ) corresponds to the extent to which traditional Dyirbal features are controlled by the least fluent Dyirbal speaker in the group . |
| 19 | New rolling stock , reopened lines and stations and more passengers testify to the extent of the exorcism . |
| 20 | We lost touch for a couple of years and then we met at the Coventry Specimen Group Stag Night and found that each of us had conceded to an extent and were now using almost identical rods . |
| 21 | Petrol prices in Russia were deregulated to the extent of allowing prices to rise by a factor of about five from April 19 . |
| 22 | National rules in the member states where services are provided can only be applied to the extent that the public interest requires it , and after due account is taken of the national rules applied to the company in the member state of establishment . |
| 23 | if he permitted African businessmen to grow [ they ] will grow to the extent of becoming a rival power to his and the party 's prestige , and he would do anything to stop it . |
| 24 | Both characters indeed show allometry ; but we have found that relative tooth size or relative antler size are related to the extent to which males have to fight for females . |
| 25 | My own survey in Brighton indicates that GHQ scores and reported deterioration in health are highly related to the extent to which unemployed men can maintain the social contact , collective purpose , activity , time-structure and status that Jahoda identified . |
| 26 | Eight people described consequences of school closure which were related to the extent or the quality of interaction and social cohesiveness within the community . |
| 27 | The physical nature of an amorphous polymer is related to the extent of the molecular motion in the sample , which in turn is governed by the chain flexibility and the temperature of the system . |
| 28 | The point of this exercise is to begin to derive a picture of how economic growth and development , as they have been generally defined , are related to the extent that the measures available permit us to draw some conclusions about the relative positions on a world scale of different groups of countries . |
| 29 | Since the impact of improvements in vitamin A status is likely to be related to the extent of deficiency in the population , there is an urgent need for surveys of the prevalence of vitamin A deficiency and xerophthalmia . |
| 30 | Certainly , it will be my case that the political culture has neither declined nor been threatened to the extent suggested by Beer and other Jeremiahs . |