Example sentences of "some extent [noun] of " in BNC.

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1 We ourselves are to some extent part of this problem , but we do at least live and work in the village full time .
2 Although this is to some extent part of any clinical consultation , it can be approached more quantitatively .
3 Although this is to some extent true of all financial intermediation , it is particularly relevant to the operations of pension funds .
4 In other words , each group of problems is to some extent causative of the other groups .
5 Most streets are essentially a collection of frontages , and the street scene has an existence to some extent independent of the buildings behind it , enjoyed by numerous people who never enter the buildings .
6 They are , as I have emphasized , highly organized political formations , which tend to develop a life of their own , to some extent independent of the social interests that originally gave rise to them and of their changing environment , and may acquire the character ( or at least the appearance ) of permanent elements in the political system .
7 The point of all these arrangements was that the flexible caulking could accommodate shrinking and swelling of the planking , and to some extent movement of the hull , without leaking very much .
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