Example sentences of "[conj] [noun sg] be to [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This very selectivity of what the scientist chooses to notice and work upon is another reason for saying that science is to some extent subjective . |
| 2 | Accusations of republican and Communist domination of NICRA and attempts to link the civil rights movement to subversion and violence were to some extent understandable responses by Unionists to the events in Derry . |
| 3 | If the genes affecting survival and fertility are to some extent age-specific in their effects , then those that influence later life will be subject to weaker selection because , by the time they take effect , more of the original carriers will already have died or become infertile for other reasons . |
| 4 | Most political philosophers — and I think most people-take the intermediate view that fairness and justice are to some degree independent of one another , so that fair institutions sometimes produce unjust decisions and unfair institutions just ones . |
| 5 | But by integrating these theories with their version of structural linguistics , they developed them in a very important direction : they placed them within a semiotic or semiological framework , semiotics and semiology being to all intents and purposes interchangeable terms . |