Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] a large extent " in BNC.
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| 1 | Against a background of rising unemployment and deepening recession , blamed to a large extent on economic mismanagement by Tories in London , some feared John Major 's staunch defence of the Union could only drive more voters to Labour and the Liberal Democrats , both promising a Scottish Parliament . |
| 2 | Both problems were solved to a large extent by the introduction of copper sheathing about 1770 . |
| 3 | It could have accepted the proposals which I put forward to rationalise and institutionalise the administrative jurisdiction in a boldly-conceived system of administrative courts separated to a large extent from the ordinary routine of departmental administration and free from indirect ministerial interference . |
| 4 | Three Senior Professional Officers ( SPOs ) were rapidly appointed to County Hall posts to act as a channel of communication for the CMHTs ( for the sake of simplicity , the key contribution of the SPOs is subsumed to a large extent within our discussion of the CMHTs ) . |
| 5 | In recent years this aspect has been corrected to a large extent through the response of Third World Christian thinkers and the radical discipleship movement which is emerging among younger Christians in the more affluent nations . |
| 6 | This was originally suggested by the work of Cassuto et al , who , in a series of reports , showed that secretion evoked by cholera toxin in anaesthetised rata and cats was mediated to a large extent via the ENS . |
| 7 | This formidable operation was well planned and ably conducted , but it was helped to a large extent by the widespread resentment which Theodore 's policy had engendered . |
| 8 | This was effectively the same as the Spanish Pyrenean of northern Navarre and had already been crossed to a large extent with Limousin and Garonnais before it finally disappeared into the Blonde during the 1960s , leaving only the rare Béarnais as a purebred remnant . |
| 9 | Therefore , the treatment approach is based to a large extent on the principles of crisis intervention ( Caplan 1964 ; Brandon 1979 ; Ewing 1978 ; Bancroft 1979 ) . |
| 10 | More specifically , the rise of the Labour Party in Preston was based to a large extent on the ways in which forms of skill structured certain capacities for political action , in which gender solidarity affected political forms , and in which the social structure determined class alliances ( pp 40–1 ) . |
| 11 | When we focus on differences between Japan and the West it has been common to paint pictures based to a large extent on our general impression of how relations at work offer such sharply contrasting attitudes to work . |
| 12 | In the end , William 's invasion manifesto , which was based to a large extent on a draft sent to him from England by Danby , emphasised grievances that had a special appeal for Anglicans and Tories . |
| 13 | From what has been said it will be clear that gilt yields and gilt prices are driven to a large extent by present and anticipated future interest rates . |
| 14 | It is also worth bearing in mind that data on the benefits of conventional antihypertensive therapy have been derived to a large extent from subjects less than 65 years of age ( Koch-Weser , 1978 ) . |
| 15 | Before we move on , it is worth noticing that just as the debate about the Bible rested to a large extent on a rather dubious notion of what kind of authority was in question , so too the argument about miracles was one in which both sides generally shared an equally questionable concept . |
| 16 | This had ominous implications for a party whose political strength in the 1980s had rested to a large extent on its competence in managing economic prosperity . |
| 17 | Because geomorphology as a science was developed to a large extent by workers in the humid temperate regions of North America and Europe , there has arisen a natural tendency to regard the landforms developed in that type of climate as normal . |
| 18 | Industrialized villages were naturally most numerous in the North and parts of the Midlands , but even in the South some nineteenth-century rural communities were sustained to a large extent by wages earned at a particular craft . |
| 19 | Most had nothing at all to say about it and those that did comment relied to a large extent on a discourse and terminology borrowed from the ‘ agenda setting nexus ’ of mainstream criticism . |
| 20 | The ‘ politics ’ of the motor car throughout the inter-war years depended to a large extent on the vigorous leadership given by the private motorists ' main organization , the Automobile Association . |
| 21 | In other areas , however , land could be used for arable , arable and pasture , pasture , or wood , and how it was used depended to a large extent on the proximity of settlements and in what sort of economy the local farmers were engaged . |
| 22 | But , as with most of the Eliot jokes ( of which there were an increasing number and an accumulating apocrypha ) , the humour in the retailing depended to a large extent on reproducing the low-pitched Eliot drawl , a last relic no doubt of his southern accent . |
| 23 | The contraceptive effect of ‘ suckling ’ is neutralised to a large extent if a bull is running with the cows . |
| 24 | As far as the administration is concerned , the debate over what to do next is governed to a large extent by what the American people say they are prepared to sacrifice to force General Noriega to retire or return to the United States to answer drug trafficking charges . |
| 25 | Acknowledging and dealing positively with political differences was vital to our continuance and effectiveness as we struggled and worked on fundamental issues of feminism and socialism , the emphasis of our commitment being governed to a large extent by our differing political histories . |
| 26 | Er as to existing policy , we 're elected to change policy , existing policies were to an extent rejected to a large extent rejected by the electorate here to , er so that the electorate should do . |
| 27 | This is particularly evident in the igneous complex in south Harris , where , for example , the anorthosite — a wedge-shaped outcrop of rock trending eastwards from Roneval hill — is almost completely altered at Lingara Bay in the east , from a pale purple , feldspathic rock to a dense , white rock , composed to a large extent of epidote group minerals . |
| 28 | However , we do know that what children make of television , and how it influences them , is determined to a large extent by what their parents teach them to make of it . |
| 29 | It is also important to realise that the efficiency of nitrogen fixation by Rhizobium spp. is determined to a large extent by the amount of nitrogen salts in the soil , so the application of nitrate fertiliser will actually inhibit bacterial nitrogen fixation . |
| 30 | Such early communities were not only dependent on animals for food and raw materials , but their lifestyle was probably determined to a large extent by the seasonal movements of these animals between different grazing areas . |