Example sentences of "[vb past] to a [adj] extent " in BNC.
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| 1 | Interestingly , this work drew to a large extent upon the highly-theorised use of psychoanalysis and deconstruction ; it emerged around the same time that the feminist anti-pornography movement , on a grassroots and activist basis , was also seriously problematising our culture 's sight of women 's bodies . |
| 2 | The religious divisions also hardened to a considerable extent into national ones ; Catholicism not only held firm in southern Europe but extended itself northward , Lutheranism failed to root itself outside the Teutonic lands , while Calvinism spread in a long thin arc from Scotland , through France and the Netherlands to Poland and Hungary . |
| 3 | For while Schopenhauer gave music a gratifyingly important role within his scheme of things , the music on which he based his theories was primarily the formally respectable tradition that he saw represented in Haydn and Mozart ; and the importance he gave to music turned to a large extent on its supposed capacity to foster the right — dispassionate and otherworldly — response . |
| 4 | If the lender under such an instrument had the right to require early redemption , but on exercise of that right he would receive only the original issue price , it would be unrealistic to assume that he would exercise it unless the issuer 's creditworthiness deteriorated to a significant extent . |
| 5 | Even in the initial stages of the movement , when the painters still relied to a large extent on visual models , their paintings are not so much records of the sensory appearance of their subjects , as expressions in pictorial terms of their idea or knowledge of them . |
| 6 | The leading element in this upheaval was the student movement , and although students became independently active in political life all over the world — in Eastern Europe and in the Third World just as much as in the West — the principal expression of a distinctive radical doctrine and mode of political action , which became to a large extent a model for the whole international movement , was to be found in the US , in the Students for a Democratic Society ( SDS ) . |
| 7 | When I was in my early twenties , it was my impression that there were basically two types of important player : the one that covered the central European repertoire , and the Chopin specialist , whose domain lay to a large extent outside the German tradition . |
| 8 | What is now called " direct " democracy , as practised in ancient Athens , did to an astonishing extent abolish the distinction . |
| 9 | When I moved in to my flat she had to a certain extent taken me over , and treated me like an erring and somewhat unintelligent son who obviously needed the care and attention of a responsible adult . |
| 10 | Nevertheless , Soviet specialists accepted that in the past these zones had to a certain extent acted as a means of averting war . |
| 11 | As we know erm Canning had to a great extent welcomed the end of the congress system . |
| 12 | When told to settle down — and Emlyn Williams , who had to a large extent taken over the parental role from Philip Burton at this stage , did instruct him to do that — it clicked with something and he thought — well , why not ? |
| 13 | Nevertheless , provided that its artificiality is kept in mind , it has its uses , since it enables us to treat separately the revenues over which the monarch had more or less independent control and those which depended to a great extent upon the consent of others . |
| 14 | Foxes became much more wide-ranging in their search for food , since they also depended to a large extent upon rabbits . |