Example sentences of "not know the extent to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The two volumes of her so-called biography were received unenthusiastically by reviewers who could not know the extent to which it was Hardy 's own attempt to sum up his views on lifelong preoccupations such as the nature of art , life , and man 's cruelty to man and the other animals . |
| 2 | We simply did not know the extent to which English people are taught to despise us . |
| 3 | The smith obviously needed fuel and metal to carry out his work but we do not know the extent to which the smith was dependent on local resources as opposed to trade , nor the size and structure of the industry . |
| 4 | True , many people still did not know the extent to which , for example , the Gospels contradict each other . |
| 5 | In the absence of any objective index of the children 's true ability we can not know the extent to which the teachers ' ratings were themselves unduly influenced by the observed behaviour . |