noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
assess the impact/extent/effectiveness etc of sth
▪ a report to assess the impact of advertising on children
exaggerate the extent of sth (=say that the size or degree of something is greater than it really is)
▪ The army exaggerated the extent to which the operation was a success.
the true extent of sth
▪ Our main difficulty is finding out the true extent of the problem.
to a lesser extent/degree
▪ This was true in Madrid and, to a lesser extent, Valencia and Seville.
to such an extent/degree that
▪ Her condition deteriorated to such an extent that a blood transfusion was considered necessary.
underestimate the importance/extent/effect/power etc of sth
▪ Never underestimate the power of the press.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
certain
▪ Other species of Ophiolebes species have a thickened skin covering the disk and to a certain extent the arm spines.
▪ I felt that way about my boss to a certain extent.
▪ Bone modifications All predators modify the bones of their prey to a certain extent.
▪ His career, to a certain extent.
▪ Being a student, Deborah was able, to a certain extent, to make her own timetable.
▪ In addition, the organized networks could to a certain extent rely on intimidation and social pressure.
▪ They say that although to a certain extent the cuts were expected, moral is still very low.
▪ Those in young offender institutions are occupied satisfactorily, to a certain extent, in open air work.
considerable
▪ The religious divisions also hardened to a considerable extent into national ones.
▪ Even this madness is also to a considerable extent a matter of performance, of enactment.
▪ To a considerable extent these aims are being achieved.
▪ But the show is rescued to a considerable extent by works that do have the ability to make you glad you came.
▪ It should be noted that these stages are to a considerable extent socially and economically determined.
▪ The size of the service sector is an impediment to economic growth because it depends upon inflation to a considerable extent.
▪ The process which Peter had set in motion persisted to a considerable extent after his death.
▪ It is a way of thinking that is predominant in social research and to a considerable extent in social theory, too.
full
▪ I run the nets out to the full extent and erect them on the return journey.
▪ Somehow news correspondents covering the administration, including me, never grasped the full extent of the guerrilla war within the administration.
▪ Noades has revealed the full extent of fury from Selhurst Park supporters at what they perceived as his personal attack on Coppell.
▪ They have everyone involved to the fullest possible extent.
▪ The exercise programme should not, however, be the full extent of coronary rehabilitation.
▪ This was the full extent of the investigation.
▪ From 300 metres above Mara River Camp you can see virtually the full extent of the area.
▪ But that is the full extent of the money listed from dinner participants.
great
▪ These terms are obviously meant to degrade Tom and this also shows racial prejudice although not to such a great extent.
▪ All of us, to a greater or lesser extent, have been doing this all our lives.
▪ During the cold war, and to a great extent because of it, the colonial world achieved political independence.
▪ The Royal School of Church Music concentrates to a great extent on essentially simple music for small choirs with restricted resources.
▪ To some extent we all do: to a greater extent, perhaps, all actors do this.
▪ Mutuality of feeling may enable acceptance of this in both partners and to a greater or lesser extent usually does.
▪ It's an old maxim but it's true: to a great extent, you are what you eat.
large
▪ Convictions in criminal cases are pronounced by the courts, yet to a large extent they are the product of police action.
▪ The localised struggles there are to a large extent a variation on a wider pattern of exploitation and greed.
▪ To a large extent, luck and serendipity made us the kind of scientists we are, and brought us together.
▪ To a large extent this is perhaps inevitably a criticism of the chairman from September 1983, Robert Reid.
▪ To a large extent, garden visitors are self-policing, with very limited vandalism or public order problems.
▪ Time had to a very large extent proved the cure he needed.
▪ Yet to a large extent it was a question of symbiosis.
▪ To a large extent this social unrepresentativeness reflects some of the structural inequalities of contemporary society.
lesser
▪ To a lesser extent, the same failure can be observed in the private sector.
▪ The arts, too, have been transformed by modern technology, though to a lesser extent than industry.
▪ All societies differentiate and, to a greater or lesser extent, allocate unequal rewards on the basis of age.
▪ Both historians proceed to a greater or lesser extent by way of discussion of great photographers.
▪ I feel the same way about ballet and, to a lesser extent, basketball.
▪ In these cases A is to a greater or lesser extent unclear, ambiguous.
▪ That method is frequently used in conjunction with the schematic method of interpretation and, to a somewhat lesser extent, the literal method.
limited
▪ Now - but only to a limited extent - the officer has lost some discretion in handling routine cases.
▪ A few instances of forged documentation and fraud have subsequently occurred, but only to a limited extent.
▪ Only to a limited extent are these new electronic services yet replacing specific print products.
▪ The company's hotels are run as autonomous units, and their operations are only co-ordinated to a limited extent.
▪ She knew their offers of support were perfectly genuine and of strictly limited extent.
▪ It is open to human reason and, to a limited extent, to human control.
▪ On the other hand the accountancy profession has only contributed, to a limited extent, to improving commercial and professional accountability.
▪ The result is a deeply flawed book in many ways, though useful, to a limited extent, in others.
true
▪ This is also true to some extent for the Crown Court cases.
▪ Every-thing I have said here about the psychotherapist is also true to some extent for all the other health professionals involved.
▪ This is true to some extent but the analogy must not be taken too far as there are some important differences.
▪ Environmentalists welcomed the move, claiming that some fishermen in Cornwall and the South-West were disguising the true extent of the problem.
▪ That's true to some extent.
▪ The true extent of the phenomenon is not at present clear, but not all sense-spectra are of the metaphorical sort.
▪ But yesterday Ferguson, along with club doctor Francis McHugh, decided to clarify the true extent of Sharpe's problem.
▪ This may be true to some extent, but let us examine the position arithmetically.
■ VERB
assess
▪ However, a consideration of this measure reveals the problems faced when trying to assess the extent of poverty.
▪ The research attempts to assess the nature and extent of black progress in recent years in light of these issues.
▪ He apologised for having failed to assess the extent of corruption and abuse of power.
▪ It's too early to assess the full extent of the damage.
▪ Nor need the courts assess the extent to which such harms are measurable against any standard of consequential morality.
▪ At least two separate industries will be examined, to assess to what extent the results may be generalized.
▪ Even more difficult to assess is the extent to which and in what ways religion might be important to people.
▪ Fourth, to assess to the extent to which estate agents have an impact on the housing market.
depend
▪ It occurs after another consonant, and the way it is produced depends to some extent on the nature of that consonant.
▪ The degree to which women take power seems to depend on the extent to which the men are absent.
▪ The frequency of this monitoring will depend upon the extent and type of surgery.
▪ The operating system of choice will depend to some extent on which transport highway consumers ride and the user interface they prefer.
▪ Finally, whether the applicant's interest is sufficient depends to some extent on the seriousness of the alleged illegality.
▪ The kind of protection that you may require depends to some extent on the status of your employer.
▪ But it all depends on the extent of the injury.
▪ These features are probably reflections of the degree of leaching, which depends to a large extent on the rainfall.
determine
▪ Government policy in the nineteenth century was important, but it did not determine the extent and geography of cattle stealing.
▪ Military intelligence maintained its surveillance of black organizational activity to determine the extent of black radicalism.
▪ The initial setting of the co-text determines the extent of the context within which the hearer will understand what is said next.
▪ This is important for determining the extent to which the congregation may participate in the prayer.
▪ At the same time a referendum on his rule should determine the extent of parliament's legitimacy.
▪ When Johnson was diagnosed, he ceased physical activity while doctors determined the extent of his illness.
▪ However, an overall sense of direction will be determined by the extent to which we are happy with the answers given.
▪ Laid on top of this choice is that of determining the extent of the investment in co-ordination of the various operations.
examine
▪ In particular, it will examine the extent to which questions concerning women and power have become part of mainstream political sociology.
▪ First, they examine the extent to which different presidential systems are likely to experience democratic breakdown.
▪ She stared at him without speaking, examining the extent of the damage.
▪ The research will examine the extent to which reductions in naval strengths can become part of the wider negotiated arms control process.
▪ It set up a House of Lords Select Committee in 1881 to examine the extent of juvenile prostitution.
▪ The first phase of the research examines the extent to which differences in memory and inferential skills contribute to comprehension difficulties.
▪ The project is intended to begin to explore these possibilities by examining the extent to which expert systems can acquire human expertise.
indicate
▪ The landscape itself indicates the extent of the danger.
▪ Inviting other home owners and managers to each home in turn indicates the extent to which this openness has developed.
▪ The line under each of the two patterns indicates the extent of the integrated plasmids.
▪ Such statements, though frequently unjustified, indicate the extent to which rhetoric of this kind had become widely acceptable.
▪ Recall and precision are measures of index effectiveness, indicating the extent to which relevant documents are retrieved.
▪ They are therefore designed to indicate to what extent and in what ways the child uses language in naturalistic settings.
▪ Consumers indicate the extent to which they value air travel by the price they are willing to pay.
▪ Some other form of comparison is therefore necessary to indicate the extent to which a child is experiencing difficulties.
limit
▪ But they have also been-and to a limited extent still are-important as a method of relative dating.
▪ States could also define the meaning of disabled to narrowly limit the extent of coverage.
▪ They are seen in a partisan perspective, a perception that limits the extent of their popular appeal.
▪ This absence of small denominations would clearly limit the extent to which coinage could have been used.
▪ Historically change has been limited in extent since traditional lore and experience play a greater part in extensive systems.
▪ These powers will limit the extent to which men and women can be autonomous and equal in love-making.
▪ If lifetime employment is so limited, to what extent have labour unions fought to widen its coverage?
reveal
▪ If we had had something similar before, this would have revealed the full extent of our Director's motoring convictions.
▪ Modern surveys have revealed the extent to which the public expects the Royal Family to earn its privileged position.
▪ The popularity of religious cult communities reveals the extent to which many people have turned their backs on the family.
▪ Noades has revealed the full extent of fury from Selhurst Park supporters at what they perceived as his personal attack on Coppell.
▪ The case reveals the extent to which the church as an institution was coupled with the nation.
▪ Recent surveys including that carried out by the Linguistic Minorities Project 1985 have revealed the extent to which Britain is multilingual.
▪ That the vanguard was so severely curtailed reveals the extent of the Soviet Union's conservatism, conformism and inferiority complex.
▪ Table 8.1 revealed the extent to which flexible exchange rates have been adopted.
show
▪ Research is even showing the extent to which mood determines what people buy.
▪ By dawn the gale had abated, and the daylight showed the full extent of the damage.
▪ This short case-study shows the extent to which a multi-plant set of factories is vulnerable to continuing change.
▪ The photograph shows the extent of the planting with Debbie installing a new plant into the display.
▪ Probability graph paper exists to show the extent to which a distribution deviates from the Gaussian shape.
▪ Although open to misinterpretation, this at least in principle shows the extent to which employers were hunting for workers.
▪ Lawyers claimed they had tried to suppress official papers showing the extent of the arms selling operation.
▪ Two cases burning up the Internet show the extent to which technology has become the front line in the battles over privacy.
underestimate
▪ It believes that the government report may be underestimating the speed and extent of extinctions.
▪ In fact, the Labour Force Survey underestimates the extent of this discrimination.
▪ The later figures may therefore underestimate the extent to which wealth is concentrated.
▪ This probably underestimates the extent to which there has been a wider shift away from direct council provision, however.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
to a greater or lesser extent
▪ All of us, to a greater or lesser extent, have been doing this all our lives.
▪ All polite exchanges are conventional to a greater or lesser extent.
▪ All societies differentiate and, to a greater or lesser extent, allocate unequal rewards on the basis of age.
▪ Both historians proceed to a greater or lesser extent by way of discussion of great photographers.
▪ Different professional institutions may define to a greater or lesser extent the modes and their mix.
▪ In these cases A is to a greater or lesser extent unclear, ambiguous.
▪ They also, to a greater or lesser extent, existed outside mainstream, predominantly male controlled, hierarchical structures.
▪ With every formal organisation there exists, to a greater or lesser extent, a complex informal organisation.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Considering the extent of his injuries, he's lucky to be alive.
▪ Discontent had grown to such an extent that the government had to withdraw the new tax.
▪ Government inspectors will assess the extent of the damage.
▪ the extent of the palace grounds
▪ The extent of the Red Creek ranch is enormous.
▪ The principality measured about 16,500 kilometres in extent.
▪ To what extent were politicians responsible for the high unemployment which Britain experienced between the wars?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Complete disruption of lysosomes also occurs, but to a lesser extent resulting in less marked release of enzyme into the supernatant.
▪ Precision defines the extent to which a measurement technique can discriminate between differences in magnitude.
▪ She stared at him without speaking, examining the extent of the damage.
▪ So opacity can be equated with the extent to which the reader is required to be creative.
▪ To the extent that he focused on Indochina at all, he was ambivalent.
▪ To the extent that these prudential rules vary the Right of Establishment tends to be inoperative.
▪ To what extent is it possible to align states and nations in the contemporary world?
▪ To what extent is the pattern already preformed?