Example sentences of "[Wh det] [be] to [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This emphasis reappears in the ‘ process ’ justifications of higher education , advanced both by its providers and consumers , in terms of training the mind , learning to think , developing autonomy and so on , notions which are to some extent ‘ subject-free ’ , and which will be explored further in Chapter 4 . |
| 2 | In the six months before the recent normal colonoscopy , she had a series of investigations including barium enemas , sigmiodoscopy , and colonoscopy with results which were to some degree conflicting . |
| 3 | It may suit one of the parties at the time of the reference to exploit the uncertainty created by poor drafting , either by delaying matters by a construction summons ( see 8.17.7 ) or by insisting on a particular definition of the issue which is to that party 's advantage . |
| 4 | One is the private sector , at the service of the governing and dominant class , which is to all intents and purposes closed to people who do not belong to the upper class . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | But resistance to government reorganization was not simply based on self-interest ; what a person 's self-interest was , was defined by institutions and economic expectations , by a social framework which was to some extent traditional and entrenched . |
| 9 | A similar strategy of bureaucratisation would appear to have emerged during the inter-war period among Japanese employers , which was to some extent directly influenced by developments in the United States ( Taira , 1973 ) . |
| 10 | The dissociation of the Muftilik from a kadilik is thus important in that it seems to represent the further definition of a chiefly " religious ' authority , the representative of the more spiritual aspect of the Seriat as opposed to its practical application which was to some degree tainted , in the eyes of the pious , by its close association with secular government . |
| 11 | Even in Russia , which was to some extent spared these difficulties by the relatively high morale and national feeling of her soldiers , 20,000 deserters were counted in 1732 . |
| 12 | The other dimension , he argues , is found in an everyday life which was to some extent in harmony with the market economy — in consumption , in fashion and especially in changing forms of plebeian drinking . |
| 13 | The men do what is to all intents a twenty-four-hour shift seven days a week . |
| 14 | It also has a couple of sockets over the ears where you can plug in what is to all effects a stethoscope . ’ |
| 15 | In origin they are Indian traditions , Hinduism and ( what is to some extent its off-shoot ) Buddhism . |