Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] the extent " in BNC.
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| 1 | The nature of the movies was determined at an early stage and to study film history is to be reminded of the extent to which American and British cultural patterns in the modern era were determined within the context of the late nineteenth-century city . |
| 2 | The target words occurred in sentences with two clauses , but the clauses varied in the extent to which the first clause could be fully interpreted without information from the second clause . |
| 3 | The National Audit Office Report on the FMI ( 1986 ) found , in practice , that departments differed in the extent to which they had adopted the FMI . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The Fao area was repaired to the extent that it was possible for loading to be resumed at a restored Mina al-Bakr terminal . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | In this chapter we have looked at the extent to which chronic sickness rates as reported on the GHS are predictable from death rates . |
| 12 | A little overwhelmed by the extent of his authority , she understood why she 'd been drawn to him . |
| 13 | This said Lord Widgery , ‘ Is entirely consistent with the provisional view I have formed of the extent of this section within the ambit of the Public Health Act . |
| 14 | The matter is now governed by section 6 of the Torts ( Interference with Goods ) Act 1977 which provides that if the improver acted in the mistaken but honest belief that he had a good title , an allowance is to be made for the extent to which the value of the goods at the time at which it falls to be assessed , is attributable to the improvement . |
| 15 | Unrealistic assumptions are being made about the extent to which — and the speed with which — the need for hospitals can be reduced by technological advance and improvements in primary care . |
| 16 | The observed data on income , wealth , etc. , do not correspond accurately to the theoretical constructs ; the empirical procedures have to rely on proxy measures ; assumptions have to be made about the extent to which people benefit from different public programmes and about incidence . |
| 17 | Petrol prices in Russia were deregulated to the extent of allowing prices to rise by a factor of about five from April 19 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Eight people described consequences of school closure which were related to the extent or the quality of interaction and social cohesiveness within the community . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | ‘ Over the last two months the bridge has been repeatedly vandalised to the extent that it has become necessary to replace all the remaining timbers with expanded metal panels , ’ he said . |
| 27 | It should be said at this stage that the case for regulation in any situation is weakened to the extent that the institutions which will themselves be involved are imperfect . |
| 28 | They can only be taxed to the extent that there is relevant income in the trust . |
| 29 | As a result the warbler increased in numbers until by 1988 the population had built to the extent that it was decided that some birds could be caught and transported to the island of Aride , some twelve kilometres north , which is managed by the UK-based Royal Society for Nature Conservation . |
| 30 | Scotch Whisky 's decline has now accelerated to the extent that sales in the UK are collapsing at the rate of 1 million cases per annum . |