Example sentences of "[prep] the same extent [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although not to anything like the same extent as in an earlier period in the United States , quietly and firmly the British black family was becoming the focus of official anxieties . |
| 2 | Members in Northern Ireland are not taking advantage of the savings available on Homecover to anything like the same extent as members in the Republic of Ireland and Great Britain . |
| 3 | Speakers of languages like Japanese , Hungarian and Spanish , which do not have weak syllables to anything like the same extent as English does , may well find such exercises of some value ( as long as they are not overdone to the point where learners feel they have to speak English as though they were reciting verse ) . |
| 4 | This has occurred in America too , but to nowhere near the same extent as elsewhere . |
| 5 | This problem does not affect all third parties to the same extent since the problem of " wasted votes " bears heavily on those parties whose support is spread across the country as opposed to those whose support is regionally concentrated . |
| 6 | Moreover , to the same extent that the representational theory is non-developmental ( recall the Fodor 's argument against learning ) , the constructivist theory is developmental . |
| 7 | 14.3 If any Party sub-contracts any work under the Project it shall ensure that the Sub-contractor enters into an appropriate confidentiality and restricted use agreement and it shall further ensure that it acquired the right to disclose and sub-license results generated under the sub-contract to the same extent that it can disclose and licence its own results . |
| 8 | But , owing to the fact that on the ebb tide water movement is confined to the depressions , the sediment deposited will not accumulate in the depressions to the same extent that it accumulates on the ridges . |
| 9 | This would ‘ remove the anomaly whereby even solicitors who do not handle money are required to contribute to the fund to the same extent that more ‘ at risk ’ solicitors do ’ . |
| 10 | I I I do n't want to go down the road to the same extent that they 've done , when they put us into debt by fifty er fifty billion o o o o o o o just on on on one day , but I 'm sure that there is a a strong case to look |
| 11 | Chrissie is not protected to the same extent because she has not worked for long enough , and there may be grounds for dismissal . |
| 12 | The British however , as has been seen , did not share France 's concern with Germany to the same extent and were reluctant to compromise their own independence in supranational bodies . |
| 13 | There are good reasons for this : first , Corinth was an oligarchy , and in oligarchies , unlike democracies such as Athens after 462 , magistrates are not accountable to the same extent and there is less need to put up inscriptions . |
| 14 | ‘ Under normal tax law , these would have been available to the enlarged group under the same conditions and to the same extent as for any other UK group . ’ |
| 15 | He is to be afforded shelter from bombardment ‘ to the same extent as the local civilian population . ’ |
| 16 | At the opposite end of the scale is the barbel , and while he does not require to be outwitted to the same extent as bream , he does make landing him extremely difficult . |
| 17 | We will break down and discuss two basic , possible explanations for these marked differences between the crime figures for men and women : firstly , that women do not indulge in criminality to the same extent as men ; secondly , that female crime is greatly underestimated by the statistics , in other words there is more female crime than the statistics indicate . |
| 18 | Women do not indulge in criminality to the same extent as men |
| 19 | These arguments suggest that the biological and/or psychological make-up of women does not predispose them to criminality to the same extent as men . |
| 20 | Industrial investment abroad is unlikely to create wealth and jobs to the same extent as would investment within the UK . |
| 21 | For example , brothers and sisters who differ in age share genes to the same extent as dizygotic twins , and so in a purely genetic disease would be expected to have the same concordance rates — but they do not . |
| 22 | Britishers , de Kruif told Lewis , did not get their science and their dollars mixed up to the same extent as Americans . |
| 23 | it follows from this that ‘ it is characteristic of all unproductive labourers that they are at my command … only to the same extent as I exploit productive labourers … however , my power to employ productive labourers by no means grows in the same proportion as I employ unproductive labourers , but on the contrary diminishes in the same proportion . ’ |
| 24 | In the Middle Ages it was generally accepted that women 's ears turned men on to the same extent as the more obvious feminine attributes ; that is why so may medieval headdresses ensured that women 's ears were discreetly covered . |
| 25 | There is a complex interrelation of both systems and we can again distinguish different countries in which this dual function of law plays a greater or lesser role : the UK for example , without a written constitution , without a constitutional court , without a long tradition of legal science but with a multitude of extra-legal institutions and ideologies does not rely on legal ideology to the same extent as other countries , for example , West Germany and the USA . |
| 26 | The Art Newspaper 's sources in Russia have , however , confirmed that Ivan 's treasure has been found to the same extent as the Loch Ness monster . |
| 27 | It would be a short sighted solution to try to remedy this bias by showing mathematics operating in the domestic realm to the same extent as it operates outside it , just to draw girls ' interest . |
| 28 | They did not expand with the audience to the same extent as with a newspaper . |
| 29 | The headlines often reflect this focus on the alleged offender 's occupation , but not quite to the same extent as in the attacks on males . |
| 30 | But Weber did not elaborate the process of creativity to the same extent as Freud . |