Example sentences of "[adv] to a [adj] extent " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course it has been altered and modernised inside to a great extent , but outside it remains as it was , a Louis-Phillippe property and therefore beautifully proportioned . ’ |
| 2 | She had let her guard down to an enormous extent and the idea of going back to her old life was actually frightening . |
| 3 | It is , as I noted at the time , a peculiar fact that most laymen who have had responsibility for the health service have interested themselves personally to a preponderant extent in the case of the mentally afflicted , both the mentally ill and the mentally handicapped . |
| 4 | So to a limited extent all judges are involved in the process of supervision and the gradual accretion of legal rules by layer upon layer of precedent . |
| 5 | so to a certain extent th the human that was introduced in the last few |
| 6 | So to a certain extent the idea was to that if we had the thing worked out it would be of great benefit to the people who were popping by . |
| 7 | It seems probable that the Atlantic trade mobilised capital far more effectively , and equally probable that in aggregate it did so to a greater extent , if the East India Company 's heavy non-trading interests are first discounted . |
| 8 | This has been in part because the universities have a perfectly general responsibility for disseminating among schools up-to-date advances in knowledge and theoretical changes within disciplines , but also , more specifically , through the Local Examination Boards they have been in a position to determine the syllabuses for public examinations , and so to a large extent to dictate a curriculum even for those pupils at school who may never themselves enter the door of a university . |
| 9 | So to a considerable extent the individual , and the problems that ageing people experience generally , are structured by dominant social attitudes and values , and this element needs to be added to the circle . |
| 10 | Erm , once again , the problems are being addressed in to a certain extent regarding residential homes and we 're very pleased with that . |
| 11 | Third , by contrast with a modern bureaucracy , the departments of medieval government were only to a small extent defined by areas in which they worked . |
| 12 | Finally , Rawls is only to a limited extent concerned with correcting inequalities in the ability to promote the good which are due to one 's natural endowments ( the difference principle is about social , not natural , primary goods ) . |
| 13 | Perhaps one of the most valuable assets of TL is restoring some tangible contact with the environment , although only to a limited extent . |
| 14 | In the past the courts have been willing to interfere only to a limited extent in the use of prerogative power . |
| 15 | Now — but only to a limited extent — the officer has lost some discretion in handling routine cases . |
| 16 | A few instances of forged documentation and fraud have subsequently occurred , but only to a limited extent . |
| 17 | Only to a limited extent are these new electronic services yet replacing specific print products . |
| 18 | The newer antiherpes agent , acyclovir , is of great interest , because it acts in virally-infected cells , but only to a negligible extent in healthy human cells . |
| 19 | In fact the people 's committees were a genuinely spontaneous growth in which communist agitation was involved only to a minor extent . |
| 20 | That this is not necessarily true ( or if so , only to a minor extent ) is illustrated by screening for lung cancer . |
| 21 | The following remarks apply particularly to the roundhouse kick and the side kick and only to a lesser extent to the front kick . |
| 22 | Also , and perhaps to a greater extent , a man is what he has smelt : later in the novel Raskolnikov gives the police-station smell as the reason for the suspicious circumstance of his fainting , which is neither the whole truth nor a straight lie but the blending of the guilty man with the Poison of the city . |
| 23 | Absorption is commonly used as a method of odour abatement where odour nuisance is the result of a gas stream becoming contaminated with low concentrations of mixtures of compounds such as fatty acids , ammonia , amines , sulphur dioxide , and perhaps to a lesser extent sulphides and organic sulphur compounds , i.e . |
| 24 | These include DED , who are engaged in supporting a range of training initiatives and in supporting agencies such as Worknet , which Liam Parker will be talking about later — LEDU , who have set up a variety of new schemes in addition to their normal support for business within the Belfast Special Action Group area , which includes West Belfast — and , perhaps to a lesser extent , IDB , who have recently held a local Sourcing Exhibition in Andersonstown Leisure Centre aimed at encouraging small local firms to apply for contracts with larger firms and public bodies . |
| 25 | we argued there that erm scale of migration was not necessary to be contained within Leeds and Bradford , to promote regeneration because we 're s we 're now , we have now exhausted all our brown field sites to the extent that we 've had to take land out of our greenbelt , but there we were looking at something in the order of four thousand dwellings in three dris districts , spread over fifteen years , and we might reasonably assume that they 'd come forward in a dispersed manner on a site by site basis er and be relatively small scale , certainly we would be looking at the local plans which flow from this alteration to make sure that will be the case , now a new settlement 's a completely different animal , you would have to come forward quickly otherwise it would not be regarded as a success , it would it would need wide publicity , perhaps across the whole region , maybe even beyond , it would be a a major attraction to anybody thinking of moving house er from Leeds to a a location which would be accessible to them to retain their employment in Leeds , so I think we were talking about two different things entirely , more than that Mr Brighton 's su suggested that fifteen hundred would not be an adequate scale , it would have to be , I think two thousand five hundred was his figure , er Mr Timothy 's suggested th the same sort of thinking , and Mr Brook to , that the the settlement would have to get bigger , erm which only compounds our problem , any any settlement which grew larger and larger and inevitably would contain more employment as well as housing would become more of a threat to the regeneration of Leeds and , perhaps to a lesser extent Bradford , and it 's on |
| 26 | Infancy and early childhood are the time of basic sexual development ; pre-puberty — despite the " latency " concept — is the phase of accommodation to social thinking and relationships , and of first establishment of gender identity ; adolescence itself is marked by an upsurge of sexual feeling , establishment of sexual identity and — perhaps to an increasing extent — first true sexual experience . |
| 27 | Erm thus to a great extent erm ending the erm er the prospects of Turkish success . |
| 28 | This indicates that the politics of local government do not just respond or react to the local environment , but crucially that they also help to mould this environment , and thus to a certain extent help to shape the local political agenda . |
| 29 | Thus to a large extent a horse is what it is through the formation of many habits . |
| 30 | The case hinged , however , on whether the administration of the drug caused the death , and thus to a large extent , the pathological evidence . |