Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] a [adj] extent [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The intention is that an LEA will not be able to favour particular schools , or to use the granting and withholding of funds as a means of enforcing policies , or of promoting some educational practices and discouraging others ( except to a marginal extent with some limited discretionary funds that can be kept outside the aggregated budget ) . |
| 2 | In addition platelet activating factor was also found , although to a lesser extent in normal , uninflamed mucosa . |
| 3 | As for the first of these concepts , we have seen that to a considerable extent in most schools the project achieved the objective of broadly based participation in devising curriculum-related library plans . |
| 4 | The problem of the evolution of recombination , and to a great extent of sex itself , is to explain why genes such as R have been favoured by natural selection . |
| 5 | In the USA and to a limited extent in Britain , the availability of subsidies for nursing home care has encouraged a transfer of patients away from the long-stay institutions , and thus the more advanced pace of rundown in those two countries . |
| 6 | For all its terrifying initial impetus , by the end of February the attack had bogged down , and to a large extent of its own accord . |
| 7 | The result of acquiring literacy , they conjecture , ‘ is not an ordinary language … it is the language of analytic thinking and explicit argument and it is the tool that has been adopted by science and philosophy and to a large extent by the formal school system ’ ( ibid. p. 10 ) . |
| 8 | Harold Perkin has concluded that ‘ The ground was thus laid in the Victorian commuter age , and to a large extent by the social consequences of commuting itself , for the class politics of the twentieth century , with a predominantly working-class Labour party on the one side and the middle-class led Conservative party on the other . ’ |
| 9 | Over large tracts of the country , especially in the west and the north , and to a considerable extent in the south-east also , the pattern of field and and hedgerow , hamlet and farm , road and lane , had established itself pretty much as we know it . |
| 10 | It is a way of thinking that is predominant in social research and to a considerable extent in social theory , too . |
| 11 | In the sixteenth century , and to a considerable extent in the seventeenth also , their function , like that of the French secretaries under the last Valois kings , was merely executive . |
| 12 | Freelance writers : A good deal of the material written for the magazine press and to a lesser extent for newspapers is produced by freelance writers . |
| 13 | SCOTTISH cereal farmers should be prepared for an increase in their growing costs , particularly for chemicals and to a lesser extent for fertilisers , as a result of successive devaluations of sterling since the United Kingdom 's departure from the exchange rate mechanism . |
| 14 | In the nineteenth century they were all categorised together as ‘ the Alderney or French breed ’ said to be bred chiefly on Alderney and to a lesser extent on the other islands . |
| 15 | The chief emphasis has been on instructing children in the use of the library and to a lesser extent on the promotion of reading amongst schoolchildren . |
| 16 | The vibration frequency associated with a particular bond depends primarily on the masses of the bonded atoms and the force constant of the bond , and to a lesser extent on the influence of the rest of the molecule . |
| 17 | Ages recorded on death certificates ( and to a lesser extent on marriage certificates ) were not always accurate because the informant did not know for sure . |
| 18 | For social services the link with DHSS encourages the giving of attention to relationships with the health service , and to a lesser extent with social security . |
| 19 | So much evidence , relatively speaking , survives to illustrate Offa 's dealings with the men of Kent and to a lesser extent with the South Saxons and so little to illuminate his relations with the Anglian groups of eastern England that the order of importance of these areas to Offa can easily be inverted . |
| 20 | To that end , interviews are being held with Members of Parliament , and to a lesser extent with the Clerks of the House of Commons , civil servants , officials of the political parties , and other interested third parties . |
| 21 | Most of this paper will be concerned with the Small Area and Local Base Statistics , and to a lesser extent with the Samples of Anonymised Records . |
| 22 | Yes please chairman , erm as you 've already heard , Leeds concerns are principally with the southwest corridor , the A sixty four corridor and to a lesser extent with the A fifty nine . |
| 23 | This interest is something which he continued to the end of his life , as witnessed by his increasing knowledge of India and to a lesser extent of China . |
| 24 | The number of residents of voluntary and private homes ( and to a lesser extent of local authority homes ) has increased , and the increase is almost entirely due to the numbers of very old entering such homes ( ibid. : 133 ) . |
| 25 | His judicial appointments were much criticized on the ground in effect that ‘ Halsbury appointed to the High Court , and to a lesser extent to the county court , men of little or no legal learning whose previous career in public life had been largely in the service of the Conservative Party or else were relations of his own ’ . |
| 26 | This may have been a Soviet response to the American nuclear war base facilities under construction at Diego Garcia ( and to a lesser extent to those at the Kagnew Communications Station near Asmara in Ethiopia which had declined in strategic significance and were slowly being wound down ) . |
| 27 | The provision of council housing can be linked in turn to another source of conflict between Shetland and incomers ( and to a lesser extent between Shetlanders ) . |
| 28 | Supplies came from the London Brick Company and to a lesser extent from nearby Stonehouse . |
| 29 | Energy is measured in calories and comes principally from carbohydrates and fats , and to a lesser extent from protein . |
| 30 | The majority of the people from the Caribbean , and to a lesser extent from Africa , are of ‘ mixed race ’ although they are not regarded as such by professionals and transracial adopters . |