Example sentences of "extent to [pron] [adj] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is their anti-social influence in that deep sense which is at issue , and which can be measured only by the extent to which such works encourage conduct which threatens the rights and freedoms of others to enjoy a peaceful and secure life under the law . |
| 2 | Other people 's houses always intrigued her by the contrast they offered to Greystones ; she would see suddenly — with detached interest and quite without envy or criticism — the extent to which other people 's preoccupations differed from her own . |
| 3 | Signals , sitreps and diaries of the time contain no hint that a massacre had taken place , or that Tito 's Yugoslavs at Bleiburg had in any way breached their assurances to Brig Scott , and this may be regarded as significant in assessing the extent to which 5 Corps subsequently continued to accept Yugoslav assurances that prisoners surrendered to them would not be indiscriminately killed . |
| 4 | Although some progress had been made by January 1990 in dissolving the Ministry for State Security ( the " Stasi " ) [ see pp. 37107-08 ; 37170 ] , the extent to which prominent people had been involved with the Stasi remained a contentious issue [ ibid . ] . |
| 5 | The popularity of religious cult communities reveals the extent to which many people have turned their backs on the family . |
| 6 | How well qualified are employers to evaluate education , or the extent to which young people differ from their elders ? |
| 7 | A second principle is sometimes applied in discussing the extent to which unequal people should be treated unequally . |
| 8 | For descriptive purposes the CCPR is given as the slope ( SEM ) of each regression line ; the R-sq% is also given , which represents the extent to which each data set is described by a straight line . |
| 9 | Both surveys also suggest that the state of the local labour market has an important influence on the extent to which unemployed people take temporary work . |
| 10 | This , in turn , can be traced to ageist values within society generally , which permeate social and political thinking and thereby influence the extent to which older people as a group are viewed as less important , less in need , or just less interesting than other groups of people ( e.g. Hughes and Mtezuka , 1992 ) . |
| 11 | We simply did not know the extent to which English people are taught to despise us . |