Example sentences of "[prep] the same extent " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is a fairly obvious gloss of Maltz and Borker 's discussion of Goodwin 's findings on directives , but the Glamour presentation of it does two things the linguists do not do , or at least not to anything like the same extent . |
| 2 | Most people were still using wooden ploughs er which , not only di is it much more difficult to cut the sod with a er wooden plough , but it also cuts only in to about half the depth of an iron plough so you ca n't sort of turn the soil over to anything like the same extent . |
| 3 | Although not to anything like the same extent as in an earlier period in the United States , quietly and firmly the British black family was becoming the focus of official anxieties . |
| 4 | These data are insufficient to establish the variation of seismic wave speeds with depth in the Moon to anything like the same extent with which this has been possible in the Earth . |
| 5 | Members in Northern Ireland are not taking advantage of the savings available on Homecover to anything like the same extent as members in the Republic of Ireland and Great Britain . |
| 6 | Speakers of languages like Japanese , Hungarian and Spanish , which do not have weak syllables to anything like the same extent as English does , may well find such exercises of some value ( as long as they are not overdone to the point where learners feel they have to speak English as though they were reciting verse ) . |
| 7 | This has occurred in America too , but to nowhere near the same extent as elsewhere . |
| 8 | Moreover , to the same extent that the representational theory is non-developmental ( recall the Fodor 's argument against learning ) , the constructivist theory is developmental . |
| 9 | The German guns then opened up but not to the same extent . |
| 10 | ‘ Under normal tax law , these would have been available to the enlarged group under the same conditions and to the same extent as for any other UK group . ’ |
| 11 | Smoking is a very ancient art that has been used for hundreds of years to preserve fish and meat , preferred to salting because it does not destroy the natural flavour of the food to the same extent . |
| 12 | He is to be afforded shelter from bombardment ‘ to the same extent as the local civilian population . ’ |
| 13 | It ‘ has not been reflected to the same extent in the fortunes of the chemical industry ’ reported Richard Freeman , ICI 's chief economist and chairman of the CIA Economic Appraisal Committee and Cefic 's Economic Outlook Working Party . |
| 14 | What has not been developed to the same extent is the suggestiveness of his work on the novel for theories of genre , a suggestiveness which I will only touch on here , but which seems to me to be worth a great deal more investigation and discussion . |
| 15 | Not to the same extent , anyway . |
| 16 | Unless both parties successfully anticipate inflation by fixing the terms of loans in such a way as to compensate for inflation , the lenders find that the real value of their loans declines , and the borrowers find that the real value of their debts declines to the same extent . |
| 17 | The Cabinet did behave as a Cabinet and although I said earlier about the Treasury being forced to disgorge information when the DEA existed , that was n't the case to the same extent in 1976 . |
| 18 | At the opposite end of the scale is the barbel , and while he does not require to be outwitted to the same extent as bream , he does make landing him extremely difficult . |
| 19 | Two other departments also undertake this role but not to the same extent . |
| 20 | We will break down and discuss two basic , possible explanations for these marked differences between the crime figures for men and women : firstly , that women do not indulge in criminality to the same extent as men ; secondly , that female crime is greatly underestimated by the statistics , in other words there is more female crime than the statistics indicate . |
| 21 | Women do not indulge in criminality to the same extent as men |
| 22 | These arguments suggest that the biological and/or psychological make-up of women does not predispose them to criminality to the same extent as men . |
| 23 | Industrial investment abroad is unlikely to create wealth and jobs to the same extent as would investment within the UK . |
| 24 | The degree of insetting of a paragraph is shown in the ruler line by the left square bracket ‘ [ ’ being inset to the same extent |
| 25 | Several adsorbents are available including silica gel , alumina , specially developed resins and activated carbon , the latter being the most important for odour removal , not being affected to the same extent by the presence of water vapour as are the other adsorbents . |
| 26 | For example , brothers and sisters who differ in age share genes to the same extent as dizygotic twins , and so in a purely genetic disease would be expected to have the same concordance rates — but they do not . |
| 27 | Britishers , de Kruif told Lewis , did not get their science and their dollars mixed up to the same extent as Americans . |
| 28 | it follows from this that ‘ it is characteristic of all unproductive labourers that they are at my command … only to the same extent as I exploit productive labourers … however , my power to employ productive labourers by no means grows in the same proportion as I employ unproductive labourers , but on the contrary diminishes in the same proportion . ’ |
| 29 | In the Middle Ages it was generally accepted that women 's ears turned men on to the same extent as the more obvious feminine attributes ; that is why so may medieval headdresses ensured that women 's ears were discreetly covered . |
| 30 | Since then , however , the creating of life peers has lent it a meritocratic rather than an aristocratic character and governments need no longer fear the exercise of its blocking power to the same extent . |