Example sentences of "at the other extreme " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the other extreme , the pure choice end of the spectrum , are explicit statements of choice , preference , approval , or disapproval : which party people think is best on economic matters for themselves and their families , for Britain as a whole , or for the unemployed ; their evaluations of how well each party has handled issues like unemployment , inflation , defence , health , education , and social services ; how warm they feel towards parties and their leaders ; whether the parties should change their leaders or their policies , or both ; and , last but not least , voting preferences . |
| 2 | For the survival of a society you have to have a certain number at one extreme and , therefore , a certain number at the other extreme , for without cowards there are no VCs . |
| 3 | It 's not hard to find bad ones with cubby-hole rooms , nylon sheets and towels like emery boards , but at the other extreme there are elegant houses with antique furniture . |
| 4 | At the other extreme , many historians believe that the Labour Party had simply inherited working-class support from the Liberals owing to the fact that trade unions had changed their allegiance when it became obvious that only an independent Labour Party would act in their interests . |
| 5 | At the other extreme , coins occasionally depict buildings which were never built , such as the Temple of the Clemency of Caesar on coins of 44BC , or the round Temple of Mars Ultor on coins of 19BC . |
| 6 | At the other extreme you could set up giant screens to show large images of the speaker as we do in larger conferences such as the Institute of Directors at the Royal Albert Hall . |
| 7 | At the other extreme , the NOP poll for the Independent on Sunday — giving Labour a three-point lead and putting the Liberal Democrats on only 17 per cent — would likewise result in a hung parliament , but this time one in which Labour would be the largest party with 317 seats , compared with the Tories ' 296 and the Liberal Democrats ' 14 . |
| 8 | But at the other extreme some manufacturers impose what seems an incredible loading against diesel versions . |
| 9 | At the other extreme was a father and son dairy farm where it was claimed that each was working 110 hours per week . |
| 10 | While at the other extreme the Christ on the cross was not the Son of God who had made his peace , who had just sighed , ‘ All is accomplished , ’ but the still-human man whose body was racked in agony . |
| 11 | At the other extreme , the 11,213 smallest farms received an average of £590 each . |
| 12 | At the other extreme , on the eastern Pyrenees , is the rare , semi-wild Alberes or Massanaise , which has more in common with the primitive Iberian cattle of Corsica , Sardinia and the Camargue . |
| 13 | But at the other extreme there are inner-city bureaux with a considerable need for a large staff , who struggle to recruit volunteers from a very small pool indeed . |
| 14 | For example , among those carers living with a dementia sufferer , there were some who gave little care because the sufferer did not need much , because they went out to work , or because they themselves were frail ; and at the other extreme were people who ‘ did everything ’ for a sufferer , and rarely left the house without him or her . |
| 15 | At the other extreme , referred to as ‘ top-down ’ planning , the planning department participates in , and influences the development of , strategies and plans of each business unit as they are being prepared . |
| 16 | At the other extreme , they may decide they must contrive an artificial research setting in order to exclude the operation of unwanted variables . |
| 17 | At the other extreme , there are groups who face an enormous task in realising their goals . |
| 18 | At the other extreme , many old people die during the heat waves that occur in very hot countries such as Greece . |
| 19 | At the other extreme of cost is drilled emplacement . |
| 20 | Is it possible that humans might feel overshadowed and surpassed , perhaps attacking the machines in a paroxysm of wounded pride , or , at the other extreme , coming to worship them , as an embodiment of a higher power ? |
| 21 | At one extreme of the southern oscillation the pressure over Australia is low and that over the Pacific is high ; at the other extreme , as in 1982 , the situation is reversed . |
| 22 | It can be so slight as to be hardly worth the name … or at the other extreme , it can almost totally paralyse action . ’ |
| 23 | You may suffer from having more to do in twenty-four hours than is humanly possible , or , at the other extreme , find yourself with too little interesting activity to make each day worthwhile . |
| 24 | At the other extreme , some grandparents are forced by circumstances , or by their children 's choices , to behave as substitute mothers and fathers . |
| 25 | At the other extreme , there are many who have lost contact almost completely with their grandchildren following the death , or divorce and remarriage , of one of the parents . |
| 26 | Clearly these merge into each other , but they range from , at one extreme , the individual who visits an ancient site , becomes aware of the energies and then goes on their way to , at the other extreme , those who try to control the earth energies for their own ends . |
| 27 | The extent of royal jurisdiction varied enormously : at one extreme lay Roger II , the would-be autocrat , uttering absolutist doctrines out of Justinian ; or the English king , who , however tied by custom , had effective control both of the king 's court , which retained a wide jurisdiction and was capable , under Henry II , of rapid expansion , and over the old popular courts of the shire and , where they had not fallen into private hands , of the hundred ; at the other extreme was the German king , much of whose jurisdiction had been delegated to the ecclesiastical immunities , and equally much was slipping , in the twelfth century , into princely hands ; or the French king , who was expected to do high justice to all who came , but received comparatively few callers from outside the royal domain . |
| 28 | The familiar pattern of travel , hotels and the company of on 's peers invited a certain insularity , a tunnel vision indeed , either in terms of artificial detachment or , at the other extreme , of a debilitating introspection . |
| 29 | Their attraction is based on an image which is at the other extreme from the uncertainty and powerlessness which are also part of adolescence . |
| 30 | At the other extreme to the shy child is the unruly one who does not want to join in any activity , has seen every trick the magician performs and ‘ knows ’ how to do them . |