Example sentences of "extent to which the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Covenant politics has come to the forefront again with the Hillsborough agreement of 1985 and shows the extent to which the populist politics of the Democratic Unionists is rooted in protestant — loyalist tradition . |
| 2 | This shows the extent to which the republican ideal gained ground once independence was in place , furthering the ideological divide between protestant loyalism and catholic nationalism . |
| 3 | The second case reveals even more the extent to which the legitimation of the state was a Roman catholic affair , at least as one of the two principal sources of power in the alliance . |
| 4 | The case reveals the extent to which the church as an institution was coupled with the nation . |
| 5 | It was then more than a misjudgement : it revealed the extent to which the religious intellectuals ' theory of church and state was outdated and incoherent . |
| 6 | Alongside this , there has been growing awareness of the plasticity of the nervous system and of the extent to which the ‘ hard-wiring ’ of the wetware of the brain is itself modulated by the brain 's own experience . |
| 7 | Eagleton 's Althusserian phase of the mid-1970s was strongly attacked by a Marxist academic , Kiernan Ryan , who has since taken issue with another Marxist , Alan Sinfield , on the extent to which the great literary works of the past can transcend the reactionary ideologies that produced them . |
| 8 | A guide to the collection , it seemed to many to underline , too , the extent to which the Saatchis had superseded the Tate Gallery as the most adventurous and successful purchasers of modern art in this country . |
| 9 | There were limits to the extent to which the post-1945 consensus could be overturned . |
| 10 | A test of a shift in the central ground of politics is the extent to which the opposite party accepts , however reluctantly and implicitly , the new ideas . |
| 11 | But plainly this is to ignore the extent to which the immediate beneficiaries of the sterling area were the Dominions rather than British citizens , a point neatly summarized by Table 5 . |
| 12 | In his book Britain 's Economic Problem , which was almost all about the balance of payments , he accurately outlines the broad trends in the balance of payments described above , and the extent to which the sterling area relied on the colonies . |
| 13 | Asger Jorn 's interest in folk cultures and tribal societies which lacked a notion of ‘ art ’ as a distinct intellectual practice separated from the common culture , was based on an understanding of the extent to which the spheres of art and work have become conflicting practices within bourgeois relations of production . |
| 14 | Indeed , the extent to which the Situationist influence has flourished in the spheres of art and popular culture is noteworthy and contrasts with the absence of the movement 's influence in other domains . |
| 15 | The extent to which the maximum wage was regularly breached is difficult to determine . |
| 16 | In the allegory , it is not easy to work out the extent to which the regress is a return to Puritanian values . |
| 17 | The extent to which the sector as a whole has grown dramatically in recent years is underlined in new figures produced for the government 's report by the research group , Graham Bannock and Partners . |
| 18 | The extent to which the momentum towards more efficient use of energy for heat had slackened since 1985 had surprised them . |
| 19 | The whole question of our relations with the Americans on atomic energy questions seems to me bound up with the larger issue of the extent to which the Americans are prepared to treat us on more or less equal terms as a first-class power . |
| 20 | The Labour Party quite clearly underestimated the extent to which the British public was horrified by the rise of fascism in Spain . |
| 21 | Given the extent to which the British public supported Republican Spain , why was it that the National government kept to its policy of non-intervention ? |
| 22 | In Krawec ( 1984 ) , a case of careless driving where a death resulted , the Court of Appeal held that the proper basis for sentence is ‘ the quality of driving , the extent to which the appellant on the particular occasion fell below the standard of the reasonably competent driver ’ , to which ‘ the unforeseen and unexpected results of the carelessness ’ are not relevant . |
| 23 | The fact that these laws concerning mikva have survived until now shows the extent to which the Jewish people have clung to their faith even under adverse circumstances . |
| 24 | It would be easy to exaggerate the extent to which the lack of genuine evangelicalism in the fraternal organizations creates motivational problems for Free Presbyterians who wish to be active in politics . |
| 25 | Enough survives today to give a compelling impression of the extent to which the crown supplied visual evidence to its subjects of the splendour of Scottish monarchy ; the buildings may be small-scale by comparison with those of wealthier kings , but they are also lovely , and imposing , and above all utterly fashionable . |
| 26 | I believe that our future and the future of the British empire , and therefore to a great extent the future of the human race , depends [ sic ] , under God , upon the extent to which the churches we represent are able to distinguish between denominational loyalty and bigotry … between denominational activity and schism . |
| 27 | It was claimed that the unsolicited letter from Watts revealed the extent to which the partnership principle had failed to secure active , purposeful and genuine co-operation between the Cambridge Board and the WEA . |
| 28 | the extent to which the teams would be able to preserve space for development work rather than be drawn into a crisis oriented casework load ; |
| 29 | The evaluation of the AEC was based upon a comprehensive assessment of the extent to which the course was able to achieve its stated objectives . |
| 30 | To measure the extent to which the AEC was able to successfully anticipate and overcome this potential problem a drink profile questionnaire ( DPQ ) was devised and administered before and after the course . |