Example sentences of "to [det] extent " in BNC.
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| 1 | To that extent it is a harsh existence , quite unlike that of the artists , musicians and writers with whom he normally mixes . |
| 2 | To that extent the SuperCut is also on the right lines , and has some benefits , but for the serious woodcutter it is limiting . |
| 3 | The document itself was not privileged and to that extent the other side was entitled to see part of the materials with the brief . |
| 4 | To that extent , he is going along with the orthodoxy , and not disturbing the papal infallibility of his predecessors and the process they have established . |
| 5 | To that extent , it still is a force to be reckoned with . ’ |
| 6 | To that extent they ought to have wide circulation , except that they depend on the kind of painstaking preparation that Knussen had given them — the music sounded taught and nurtured rather than merely rehearsed . |
| 7 | The significance of an offer of compensation is that it may be taken as a token of the defendant 's remorse , and that it redresses the private loss of the victim , and to that extent and no other it plays a part in the sentencing exercise . |
| 8 | To that extent , he can claim to have been an innocent traveller . |
| 9 | In practice , the state scheme contributions pre-empt a slice of incomes which would otherwise be available for saving through pension schemes , and thus to that extent would be expected to slow down the growth of non-state provision . |
| 10 | To that extent their village life in Pakistan is mirrored in Bradford . |
| 11 | ‘ And it is wrong , ’ remarked Graham Greene on Goodbye Mr Chips , ‘ to despise popularity in the cinema — popularity there is a value , as it is n't in a book : films have got to appeal to a large undiscriminating public : a film with a severely limited appeal must be , to that extent , a bad film . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ To that extent they have already been punished . ’ |
| 13 | Despite the doubts , Gina Bellman does have the naive , vulnerable quality Potter clearly wanted — to that extent , she was right . |
| 14 | There is never any one answer to any major problem and Keepin and Kats ' calculations are to that extent a cockshy . |
| 15 | To that extent , the lobby revolt was a success . |
| 16 | To that extent there may be said to be a mental element required for this variety of manslaughter , but it is a manifestly low mental element compared with the death which results . |
| 17 | Of course any early modern monarch 's personality was of fundamental importance , in Scotland or elsewhere , and to that extent seeking to understand Mary 's personality is an entirely legitimate and necessary exercise . |
| 18 | To that extent — until war eventually came in 1513 , and with it his death — James IV undoubtedly had the best of both worlds , the pleasure but not the pain and the expense . |
| 19 | In higher organisms the common process of recombination is the sexual one , and to that extent is confined to the DNA of a single species . |
| 20 | To that extent the Football Association were justified in taking this fixture back to the Sheffield stadium only three years after 95 Liverpool supporters died there . |
| 21 | ‘ It was always my intention to go on playing in club competition with Constitution after finishing my international career and to that extent , I am disappointed by the way things have worked out , ’ Lenihan said . |
| 22 | To that extent the results reflect the basis upon which ASWs made decisions , which frequently involved diversion of GP referrals from compulsory admission . |
| 23 | After his death his empire could barely be sustained by the new rulers ( including Charles the Bald and Charles the Fat — is it possible to hold an empire together when the populace is taking the mickey out of you to that extent ? ) and crumbled away over a period of two centuries . |
| 24 | To that extent it still has value . |
| 25 | An architecture centre is in danger of doing the same thing and , to that extent , is distinctly against the interests of the membership as a whole . |
| 26 | If a single phrase of Beethoven 's ninth symphony is sufficiently distinctive and memorable to be abstracted from the context of the whole symphony , and used as the call-sign of a maddeningly intrusive European broadcasting station , then to that extent it deserves to be called one meme . |
| 27 | Therefore , to that extent and that extent only , the two vehicles remain separated as a snail and a recognizably distinct fluke inside it . |
| 28 | Perhaps some courageous reader will insist that the books are ordered , and the tide of semi-literacy will have been held back to that extent through the unsuspected influence of the popular cinema . |
| 29 | It is true that in Britain the matter is now regulated by statute and to that extent it has been flushed into the open . |
| 30 | Everything that happens in your life will naturally bring about a change in you as a person and , to that extent , your future will therefore be affected . |