Example sentences of "extent [prep] which [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If that means that the wardship judge has wider powers than a natural parent ( on the extent of which I have declined to express an opinion ) , it seems to me to be warranted by the authorities to which I have referred . ’ |
| 2 | But not this next example , the extent of which I have only recently begun to fully appreciate . |
| 3 | Managing is unusual in the extent in which it has been shown to rely on informal information . |
| 4 | In fact , though , McGurk and MacDonald ( 1976 ) have shown the extent to which we use information about the position of a speaker 's lips to help us recognise spoken words . |
| 5 | Lewis is extremely good at describing the actual territory in which the moral life , for most of us , is thrashed out , and the extent to which we enable ourselves to be deluded about ourselves and other people : |
| 6 | However , an overall sense of direction will be determined by the extent to which we are happy with the answers given . |
| 7 | Unfortunately , the extent to which we are loved , our degree of significance and the way we perceive it are different things . |
| 8 | The society you live in : some commentators place a high value on our ‘ social needs ’ and the extent to which we adapt to live in our society . |
| 9 | In the early 1960s Stanley Milgram , a research psychologist at Yale University , carried out a series of experiments on the extent to which we obey authority . |
| 10 | What his theory does not clearly specify is the method for determining the extent to which we observe cultural evolutionary achievements and the circumstances in which interference through institutional design is justified . |
| 11 | Every surviving adult does , of course , but the extent to which we achieve personal and psycho-sexual maturity varies from one of us to another . |
| 12 | The aim of science is truth , and , according to Lakatos , the methodology of research programmes provides the best means of assessing the extent to which we have succeeded in approaching it . |
| 13 | Perhaps one of our tasks should be to examine the extent to which we are complicit in reproducing structural inequalities through the very nature of the work we do . |
| 14 | The extent to which we aggregate individual units in this way depends of course on the purpose at hand . |
| 15 | Pest Control Anglia has passed the assessment and qualified and we are now evaluating the extent to which we apply for all other branches to be considered . |
| 16 | This method allowed us to generalise the result to all Scottish schools but limited the extent to which we could explore potentially interesting responses . |
| 17 | That is why during the next few weeks we shall be embarked on considering the extent to which we can change it to the benefit of all . |
| 18 | Table 6 shows the relationship between outcome and the extent to which their wishes were considered . |
| 19 | To disclose whether or not a warrant has been issued in a particular case could establish means whereby those involved in serious crimes or espionage or subversion could learn the extent to which their activities had come to notice or — perhaps more damaging — could in some cases confirm whether their activities had come to notice at all . |
| 20 | The youths studied — and you might like to consider the extent to which their experiences and expectations are commonplace — and are aware that in their leisure time they are doing nothing , are bored with it . |
| 21 | Digital data occupy a central position in this applications field and a number of examples are given to illustrate the extent to which their development has been hampered or facilitated in various countries by the policies of the organizations with responsibility for digital data provision . |
| 22 | Presumably pop-stars and politicians feel otherwise , but many people like to feel they can control the extent to which their names are known ; it is to them an aspect of personal privacy , and it extends to other identifiers like home address . |
| 23 | It would be helpful if responses could indicate the extent to which their views are influenced by conceptual issues , practicality or the desirability of international harmonisation of accounting requirements . |
| 24 | So there must be doubt about the extent to which their revised choice marks a genuine readiness to profit from extra information about credit costs , rather than mere uncertainty . |
| 25 | In the course of their analysis the authors determined the extent to which their proposed criteria agreed with those contained in other existing diagnostic schemes — some ten or twelve of them . |
| 26 | Bargaining levels are related to the structure of the parties themselves in collective bargaining , particularly the extent to which their own respective organisations are strongly centralised ( federated ) at national level , and to the extent or density of unionisation of a country 's labour force ( Clegg , 1976 ) . |
| 27 | The extent to which their development involves various kinds of experience raises an entirely separate issue . |
| 28 | He proposes four bonds : attachment ( the extent to which individuals have close emotional ties to other people ) ; commitment ( the extent to which they see conventional behaviour , for example at school , as offering immediate or long-term rewards ) ; involvement ( the extent to which their time is taken up with conventional activities ) ; belief ( the extent to which their beliefs about what is permissible or not coincide with conventional ones ) . |
| 29 | He proposes four bonds : attachment ( the extent to which individuals have close emotional ties to other people ) ; commitment ( the extent to which they see conventional behaviour , for example at school , as offering immediate or long-term rewards ) ; involvement ( the extent to which their time is taken up with conventional activities ) ; belief ( the extent to which their beliefs about what is permissible or not coincide with conventional ones ) . |
| 30 | Another way of examining acute illness prevalence is to consider specific acute health problems and the extent to which their prevalence increases ( or decreases ) with age . |