Example sentences of "[is] to some " in BNC.
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| 31 | The architecture of parallelism is to some extent in conflict or in counterpoint with the grammatical structure of each sentence , so that the main verb ( shown in capitals ) occurs in mid-parallelism , and forms ( continuing the architectural simile ) a concealed centre of gravity , balancing subject against predicate . |
| 32 | Golding 's novel is to some degree experimental in style , and when we read it , we sense there is something " odd " about Lok 's language . |
| 33 | Such matters are to a great extent determined conventionally by syntax , and become noticeably expressive only when a writer makes a graphological choice which is to some degree marked or unconventional , such as a deliberate misspelling . |
| 34 | That 's right , but the trouble is using language accurately with all due respect is is to some degree |
| 35 | In very severe cases the toxin gets into the blood stream and their paralytic effects toxin i i is to some extent a neuro-toxin , and also there are effects of the heart . |
| 36 | The unity of the discipline is to some extent an external facade , a matter of appearance ; from the inside , it may appear rather as a constellation of specialisms , more or less closely related . |
| 37 | The contrast between professional norms and bureaucratic norms is a familiar theme in the literature on professions , and is to some extent exemplified in the ambiguous relationship between academics and administrators in higher education itself . |
| 38 | Within higher education , the mental/manual dichotomy is to some extent shadowed by the pure/applied one . |
| 39 | One of the simplest and most basic semantic judgements one can make concerning an utterance in one 's native language is whether it is to some degree odd or not . |
| 40 | Informants can not , of course , be expected to quantify degrees of abnormality ; but what they can do is distinguish a fully normal sentence from one which is to some degree odd . |
| 41 | Since , however , this is an object relation — that is , since that bad object is itself a part of the ego — this denial is to some extent also a denial of a part of the ego . |
| 42 | For instance , in some intuitive , non-technical sense of ‘ probable ’ , we may be prepared to assert that it is to some degree probable that a very heavy smoker will die of lung cancer . |
| 43 | It is to some extent understandable why the police have failed to learn the lesson of science . |
| 44 | Their image is to some degree distorted , and they will all too easily switch their appetite off , rather than let normal hunger and a normal appetite for food develop . |
| 45 | However , as table 5.2 and figure 5.2 show , the other very important component of the trend is that more people than before are living to be very old , into the high eighties and nineties , and this is to some degree due to changing mortality trends at later ages . |
| 46 | Table 5.4 also suggests another reason not to panic : that over the longer run the rise in the elderly population in the next century and the rise in the numbers of very elderly in this century is to some degree offset by a projected fall in the number of very young non-workers , i.e. , that the relationship between total so-called ‘ dependency ’ and the size of the population of working age may not change significantly . |
| 47 | Today the welfare state is to some extent ‘ under siege ’ . |
| 48 | The position under the Act is to some extent speculative . |
| 49 | There are critical windows of time during which maturation must be achieved ; failure of maturation is to some extent irrecoverable . |
| 50 | Both include wilderness , an altogether more delicate asset that is to some degree marred by almost any human incursion . |
| 51 | all observation is to some extent determined by theory — a very old theme in a not-so-new guise . |
| 52 | The hope expressed by Harrowby twenty years earlier , that the spirit of science might be imported into politics , is to some extent realized in Frankland 's Discourse . |
| 53 | However , the gap in the German organ tablatures is to some extent filled by those for lute from Hans Judenkünig 's ( Vienna , 1523 ) onward . |
| 54 | It is to some extent modelled on the supposed ‘ Obrecht ’ Passion , which he mentions in his preface , though his text is entirely from St. John and he goes on to point out that he has been ‘ diligent so to set the words under the notes that almost every syllable has its note , and the four voices sing the words at the same time so that the listeners may hear the words clearly ’ . |
| 55 | She was a bit troublesome and still is to some teachers . |
| 56 | Finally , it is not entirely true that the wave is the independent variable and the beach the dependent one , because the form of the wave , at least when it nears the coast , is to some extent dictated by the form of the beach and the immediate offshore bottom . |
| 57 | The even more rapid decline in the two-party vote in Britain is to some extent compensated for by the increased vote for the smaller parties since the 1970s , but in the United States the proportion of the electorate mobilized by the parties is almost certainly even smaller because of the growing number of single-issue pressure groups in recent years . |
| 58 | But response rate is to some extent within control : a Modular Course survey of staff satisfaction with modification of a scheme for mapping courses on to timetable hours , yielded an ( internal ) postal return rate of 35 per cent . |
| 59 | The relevance of this policy to the rights of floating charge holders is that the procedure for enforcement of a floating charge is to some extent treated as an insolvency proceeding . |
| 60 | 2 In psychology , generalisation refers to the process that occurs when one stimulus , which is to some degree equivalent to another , can substitute for the other in arousing a conditioned response ( behaviourist psychology ) . |