Example sentences of "to the [det] extent " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , to the same extent that the representational theory is non-developmental ( recall the Fodor 's argument against learning ) , the constructivist theory is developmental . |
| 2 | The German guns then opened up but not to the same extent . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He is to be afforded shelter from bombardment ‘ to the same extent as the local civilian population . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Not to the same extent , anyway . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Two other departments also undertake this role but not to the same extent . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Women do not indulge in criminality to the same extent as men |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Industrial investment abroad is unlikely to create wealth and jobs to the same extent as would investment within the UK . |
| 17 | The degree of insetting of a paragraph is shown in the ruler line by the left square bracket ‘ [ ’ being inset to the same extent |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Britishers , de Kruif told Lewis , did not get their science and their dollars mixed up to the same extent as Americans . |
| 21 | 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 . ’ |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | ‘ People no longer live in communities to the same extent . |
| 25 | The offices on the mainland also saw their fee income fall , although not to the same extent . |
| 26 | In the event of such disclosure will obtain from such third parties ' duly binding agreements to maintain in confidence the information to be disclosed to the same extent at least as is so bound hereunder . |
| 27 | 14.3 If any Party sub-contracts any work under the Project it shall ensure that the Sub-contractor enters into an appropriate confidentiality and restricted use agreement and it shall further ensure that it acquired the right to disclose and sub-license results generated under the sub-contract to the same extent that it can disclose and licence its own results . |
| 28 | Chrissie is not protected to the same extent because she has not worked for long enough , and there may be grounds for dismissal . |
| 29 | It is often less appropriate to involve counsellees to the same extent , and the counsellor may have to take more direct action in their interests , much in the way that any friend would do in similar situations . |
| 30 | Yet in the States at this time there was a real explosion of sexual activity , of public sexual activity , the development of gay saunas , the development of sexually explicit magazines ; there was a huge migration , really , to New York , San Francisco , Los Angeles by gay people , a whole burgeoning of a literature and expression of new sexual activities which I do n't think was really echoed to the same extent until quite late in the seventies in this country . |