Example sentences of "according to the extent " in BNC.

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1 The planning of information production takes place at monthly meetings where priorities are determined according to the extent and nature of the impending changes and the date they will take place .
2 Some hospitals employ a set of policy rules for such patients whereby a particular level of precaution is nominated for each patient according to the extent of risk ( Morgan 1979 ) .
3 Local authority central training units , for example , can be described as providing ‘ external ’ , ‘ internal ’ or ‘ co-operative ’ training — according to the extent of the activity of the central department , and their relationship with library departments , as can other local authority funded groups , organizations , or institutions .
4 By manipulating the statistics in various ways , holding one factor constant while varying another , he showed that rates of suicide varied according to the extent to which people were integrated into their social group .
5 Moreover , the magnitude of a sexual problem may vary from one person to another according to the extent of sexual urge and sexual need .
6 Up to the commencement of school life , the major gratifications of the child in its interactions with others have been based largely on the overt and tacit approval of its parents its activities have been categorised in part according to the extent by which maternal and paternal love has waxed or waned as a result of them .
7 The position differs according to the extent of the authority which has been conferred on the directors .
8 Speaking in Moscow Tun Razak denied that he had arrived to obtain the official approval of the USSR for the neutralisation of Southeast Asia ‘ because the responsibility for this rests with the countries of Southeast Asia themselves , acting on a collective basis ’ but he hoped that ‘ according to the extent of progress of the countries of Southeast Asia on this path towards our goal the Soviet Government will show sympathy and understanding towards us ’ .
9 The most common criterion for classifying interviews is in terms of their degree of standardisation ; that is , according to the extent to which the interviewer is allowed to vary both the content and the order of the questions asked .
10 Serious cinema 's attempts to portray sexual passion have generally succeeded best according to the extent they have ignored this temptation : think of Brando , obese , with straggling grey hair and face plastered with pan-stick , howling obscenities as he floors Maria Schneider ; or Dennis Hopper , jumping on Isabella Rossellini like a mad dog with velvet , scissors , and mask .
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