Example sentences of "[not/n't] to the extent " in BNC.
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| 1 | A century and a half later , of course , many new fossil discoveries and much critical analysis have greatly advanced our understanding of dinosaurs , although not to the extent that the controversy and emotion first stirred up by Owen has entirely abated . |
| 2 | Jobs may thus , in many instances , have been de-skilled to the extent that management has tighter control through fragmenting the tasks and more tightly specifying what should be done , though not to the extent of eliminating craft workers from the job . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'd never suffered like that , not to the extent where tears were pouring down my face for no apparent reason . |
| 4 | The chains generally concentrated in particular regions , although not to the extent of local monopoly . |
| 5 | It would be fair to conclude that the trend in Japan caused concern to Peking but not to the extent that it did in Moscow . |
| 6 | Quantum mechanics may be peculiar but not to the extent of allowing one to obtain the square root of minus one as the result of an experiment ! |
| 7 | Not to the extent they are in India , they are . |
| 8 | Not to the extent where you 're living in each other 's pockets , it 's just that er you know enough about each other to see if there 's anything out of the ordinary happening . |
| 9 | ‘ Nor would any outlaw strip the corpses so carefully : jewellery and silver maybe , perhaps the horses and their harness , but not to the extent the porter described . |
| 10 | Both Dalton and Alexander , the First Lord of the Admiralty , argued at meetings of the committee that Germany should be deprived of war-making industries , though not to the extent of the ‘ pastoralisation ’ proposed by Henry Morgenthau , the US Secretary of the Treasury , and accepted for a time by Churchill and Roosevelt at their meeting at Quebec in September 1944 . |
| 11 | Not , not to the extent of what we 've got . |
| 12 | but did it look authentic with the thing , I mean not to the extent of |
| 13 | I mean yeah she is funny , yeah , but th not to the extent that you find her funny like she 'll be just standing there and you 'll look at her and you 'll start pissing your knickers . |
| 14 | You think you 're fit , but not to the extent of athletes or to aerobic teachers of a high calibre , erm but I think we erm although we joke about , you can see on the pain in the faces that it does hurt and it does do us good . |