Example sentences of "[art] extent to [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Independence of domestic policies The extent to which floating exchange rates enable governments to have greater independence in their domestic policies may be exaggerated .
2 Accordingly , pre-exposure to the context can be expected to attenuate the extent to which latent inhibition will develop context-specificity .
3 In London , figures collected by the London Research Centre with the help of the London boroughs revealed not only the rapid decay of inner city housing as suggested by the national survey , but also the extent to which chronic disrepair is now prevalent even in suburban areas .
4 In this chapter we have looked at the extent to which chronic sickness rates as reported on the GHS are predictable from death rates .
5 Er but there was an implication by implication and the , the particular point was the extent to which surplus water draining off fields er was to the problem and we learnt from the Southern Water representative that there is a an area of uncertainty erm and divided responsibility perhaps erm about the ditches , about the highways in that vicinity .
6 These are all very real problems but a great deal will depend on the extent to which mutual destruction is seen as a real possibility , and on the extent to which international law can be presented as an effective contrivance for the acceptable resolution of international conflict .
7 Unfortunately , Foucault did not realize the extent to which nineteenth-century naturalists rejected both the Cuverian and the Darwinian perspectives .
8 We investigate the extent to which Afro-Caribbean migrants avoided the worst excesses of the housing crisis of the 1960s and 1970s , looking in detail at housing conditions for newly-arrived migrants .
9 We shall examine in particular the extent to which recent changes in the NMGC represent survival strategies predicated primarily on the assumption that the organisation should continue and only secondarily on a clear conception of the service which it can should provide .
10 The second aspect is the extent to which recent events prove that politicians should avoid expressing the obvious , because it always leads to trouble .
11 This may have led him to exaggerate the extent to which Labour Party organisation had been maintained during the war , while Conservative Party organisation had languished :
12 Hence their power to influence the government will depend upon the extent to which alternative forms of energy are readily available .
13 The decision of whether to prescribe an antidepressant should be made on the basis of whether the patient shows ‘ biological ’ features of depression which predict a good response ( e.g. early morning wakening , diurnal mood variation , and weight loss due to impaired appetite ) ; whether , in the case of severe depression , one can afford to wait for the delayed response of an antidepressant ; and the extent to which environmental factors seem largely to explain the symptoms .
14 We need to understand the extent to which oppositional practices have , wittingly or unwittingly , shared the assumptions of the dominant state-led strategies that have also attempted to respond to the black presence in British education and society .
15 A second principle is sometimes applied in discussing the extent to which unequal people should be treated unequally .
16 Guy Ragland Phillips has shown the extent to which pagan symbols , such as the Green Man , shiela-na-gig , pentagram and the like , survive in ostensibly Christian buildings .
17 The present inquiry examines in what ways the attitudes to new techniques were affected by unique circumstances of our pioneer industrial revolution ; tries to assess the extent to which Victorian businessmen and their successors failed to comprehend that a continuous regard for new techniques was a condition of survival in a competitive system ; considers the effects of two World Wars on technical innovation ; and presents the achievements and failures in a broad historical context .
18 Research is therefore required , believes Simonsen , not only into the impact of the working environment on brain chemistry , but also to assess the extent to which internal brain processes can modify these effects .
19 Changes in awareness might , therefore be more successfully measured by the degree to which such models are revised than by the extent to which behavioural objectives are achieved .
20 It is exactly this assumption , however , that shows the extent to which Western society is indistinguishable from all other cultures , for each , according to Lévi-Strauss , has always assumed that it represents the full meaning and significance of human society :
21 Chapter 3 discusses the overall macro-economic issues in more detail , for example the extent to which monetary union might produce faster growth , but the principal concern here is with the spatial implications .
22 But he found other allies as well , everyone in fact who had been uneasy with the extent to which traditional Catholicism had been of late put into question .
23 Equally significant is the extent to which traditional structures are appropriate and relevant to the changing demands upon schools .
24 In comparing and contrasting the different features of each , however , the extent to which traditional IR systems are suitable models to be emulated must be borne in mind .
25 One can not but be struck by the extent to which traditional adult and community providers such as universities , colleges of advanced education , technical and further education colleges , workers ' education associations and the plethora of service based organizations such as YMCAs and CWAS and so on , are being by-passed as people link up with , or fashion , their own community based continuing education capabilities .
26 It is possible in fact that the extent to which agricultural work is carried out depends greatly on the availability and profitability of alternative sources of employment .
27 These are all very real problems but a great deal will depend on the extent to which mutual destruction is seen as a real possibility , and on the extent to which international law can be presented as an effective contrivance for the acceptable resolution of international conflict .
28 A number of countries retain withholding taxes , such as the UK and Belgium ; issuance queues remain in a number of markets , as do limits on the extent to which certain types of borrowers can make euroissues , constraints on use of such funds and restrictions on institutional investors ' freedom to acquire foreign securities .
29 For the past forty or so years since the railways passed into public ownership , the issue of social support — that is the extent to which unremunerative routes should be directly subsidised by the taxpayer — has never been entirely clear .
30 The Authority , in the longer term , should investigate the extent to which additional resources are needed for supervised ‘ extended study ’ by pupils and meet these vital needs
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