Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [verb] to some [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rainstorm had to some extent penetrated the tree-cover . |
| 2 | So the struggle became to some extent a contest between the German bishops and the pope , and the position of the German bishops in extending the conflict can only be understood if we understand their relationships with the political parties and the rival claimants . |
| 3 | He recognized that the plebs participated to some extent in the affairs of the city ( 6.4.5 ) . |
| 4 | The practical utility of the rule depends to some extent upon the means that the courts are entitled to employ in order to ascertain what mischief the Act was intended to remedy . |
| 5 | Misunderstandings about the nature of the recordings contributed to some confusion in the early 1960s about whether the eye movements of dreaming sleep did or did not actually follow the action of the dream . |
| 6 | Presumably all this applies equally well to , to shops because I suppose you could link up the cash registers to some sort of stock control , so that you could almost keep a running total of what you , you have in stock as you erm punch the appropriate numbers up on the , on the till ? |
| 7 | Then , perhaps in the preface , the author refers to some research assistants who have been responsible for collecting data for the study . |
| 8 | Eventually the convulsions subsided to some extent and he could hear what she was saying . |
| 9 | On the other hand , 32 per cent felt that economic growth should be given priority even if the environment suffered to some extent . |
| 10 | Not because he particularly approves of the exploitation of Henderson Island , but because he hopes that this latest development will force the government to come to some decision about the future of Pitcairn . |
| 11 | Not only , therefore , did sleep mechanisms rebel against the regime by more and more attempts to initiate REM sleep during the period of deprivation , and " make up " for the amount lost to some extent when allowed to , but the subjects also showed signs of psychological distress when it was prevented . |
| 12 | The unwillingness to move to some form of more powerful and comprehensive agency in Britain along the lines of the Quality Commission proposed by the Labour Party ( Cook 1990 ) has left quality issues largely in the hands of the professionals . |
| 13 | ‘ I think that both the country people and the tourists share to some extent the illusion that the locals dematerialise when the visitors have gone , that all the countryside is a vast TV set to be switched off when no one is watching , ’ said Beuno . |
| 14 | Whether these groups work for or against the interests of the company depends to some extent on the type of supervision they get . |
| 15 | Siting the chimney , for which planning permission will be required , is still all important for it to be effective , as the release of pollutants into the atmosphere depends to some extent on the topography of the site . |
| 16 | It was this last point which at the time led to some discomfort about OD . |
| 17 | In this example , whilst the market has to some extent been created by the regulators , the safety technology has been transferred mainly through the business activities of the safety consultants . |
| 18 | Often a priority given to some activity in this police hierarchy of meaning has been laid down from a constable 's first days as a probationer and now lies beneath the immediate consciousness , so that any calls for a change in direction of police response may well be defeated by an unspoken semantic value which the institution gives to that activity . |
| 19 | We 're in a room that occupies the whole ground floor of the cottage ; in one comer , a steep staircase — more like a ladder climbs to some sort of loft or upper room . |
| 20 | For this simple , self-evident reason , the birth of twins , and especially identical twins , would have seemed to the ancients nothing short of miraculous — a phenomenon attesting to some intervention of divine origin . |
| 21 | In this chapter we are concerned with key aspects of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 , an Act based to some extent on the report of a Royal Commission under the chairmanship of Sir Cyril Philips . |
| 22 | Such an approach overlaps to some extent with the ‘ knowledge-referenced ’ curriculum , but it also results in the inclusion of elements related to health , economics , civics and other ‘ relevant ’ topics which one would not normally find in an academic-style secondary school . |