Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] the extent " in BNC.
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| 1 | Enhancement in this context means the carrying out of works which are intended to lengthen substantially the useful life of the asset , to increase substantially its open market value , or to increase substantially the extent to which the asset will serve the purposes of the local authority concerned . |
| 2 | Second , since any forger who makes additions to a genuine document will destroy the original to avoid detection , it must generally be impossible to know precisely the extent of forged elements in otherwise genuine documents . |
| 3 | Remote sensing for agricultural land use has already been discussed in Chapter 2 , but for wider land use purposes , the Department of Environment ( DOE , 1978b ) has used air photos to define accurately the extent of all built-up areas in England and Wales . |
| 4 | Subsequently applied to geography as a whole , Bennett and Chorley ( 1978 ) produced a text which attempted to explore firstly the extent to which systems theory provided an interdisciplinary focus for environmental matters and to what extent systems technology provides an adequate vehicle ; and secondly to ascertain the manner in which systems approaches aid in the development of an integrated theory relating social and economic theory to physical and biological theory . |
| 5 | He is then able to see clearly the extent and depth of his wounds . |
| 6 | But none the less , it is better to start off with some conceptual purity or relatively homogeneous phenomenon in order first to describe better the extent of that particular type of crime , second to facilitate its sociological understanding , and finally to evaluate the likely effectiveness of possible control/regulation proposals . |
| 7 | Armed with this definition , the director of the centre , Dr Spence Galbraith , and his colleague , Dr Marian McEvoy , have collected information in an attempt to assess accurately the extent to which AIDS has penetrated the population of Britain . |
| 8 | By its very nature it is impossible to quantify exactly the extent of the black economy . |
| 9 | Opposition spokesman Roger Stott today hit condemned a move by Labour 's ruling national executive to investigate further the extent of support in the province for a Labour Party organisation . |
| 10 | With the aid of the LFS we were able to examine further the extent to which members of the temporary labour force in the hotel and catering industry were working on that basis because they had been unable to find permanent jobs , and to what extent they were doing so because they did not want permanent jobs . |
| 11 | The Chancellor of the Exchequer , for example , can hardly be expected to explain publicly the extent to which our joining the ERM has tied his hand . |
| 12 | Ketotifen , a drug used for the prevention of asthma , was found to decrease significantly the extent and severity of experimental colitis in two rat models . |
| 13 | If one takes ‘ amount ’ as referring to duration and extent ( number of people affected ) , perhaps together with probability and proximity , Bentham certainly does not think that all that matters is amount , since this would be to forget intensity , which seems to mean simply the extent to which it is actually liked moment by moment . |