Example sentences of "extent to [pron] any [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Watercourses vary in size from the merest trickle in a ditch to large tidal rivers ; size is significant since it controls the extent to which any pollution will be diluted , thereby more readily purified by natural processes , and less noticeable . |
2 | If we wanted to summarize the extent to which any type of school selected disproportionately from the children of particular class backgrounds , we might use the difference between the service and the working class in the proportion attending that school . |
3 | What concerns me is the extent to which any warning signals included on the computer record are made available to the control officer and conveyed to the officer on the beat . |
4 | This raises many questions about the extent to which any depreciation charge could yield a useful measure of this use but , given the policy of fixed depreciation charges imposed by Government , it would be hard to see how these charges would be capable of measuring actual usage of assets ( a point which is at the heart of the difference between the two accounting traditions ) . |
5 | Whatever the curriculum there is no reason in principle why some appropriate means should not be devised to assess the extent to which any pupil has achieved some desirable level of understanding , knowledge or competence as a consequence of following that curriculum . |
6 | The extent to which this inter-generational equity is achieved in practice depends upon Assumptions 1 and 2 as well as upon the extent to which any pattern of principal repayments is capable of reflecting assets usage . |