Example sentences of "[vb pp] to some [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the major parties were committed to some extent to discredited policies and persons . |
| 2 | In some ways the idea of a coal and steel community took off because people committed to some form of common future for Western Europe occupied positions of authority in several countries : Schuman , Monnet and others in France , Adenauer in West Germany , Alcide de Gasperi and Carlo Sforza in Italy , Paul-Henri Spaak in Belgium , and Joseph Beck in Luxembourg . |
| 3 | The port 's operations are subsidized to some extent by the local authorities but in the main the port is financed by port dues and this had led to a demand that any port land released for development should yield significant port use in order to generate revenue . |
| 4 | It was suggested in chapter 3 that social role can be varied to some extent by , for example , manipulating discourse patterns or by creating an acceptable category of identity such as that of ‘ friend of a friend ’ . |
| 5 | We have already inquired to some extent , and we shall have to inquire further , how far these assumptions are in accordance with the actual facts of life . |
| 6 | It was supplemented to some extent by the druzhinii ( volunteer popular detachments ) , formed in 1959 . |
| 7 | New material , both archival and interpretative , requires these judgements to be modified to some degree . |
| 8 | Most legislation is modified to some degree as a consequence , sometimes extensively . |
| 9 | Bonilla argues that the lack of integration of Rio 's favelados ( the inhabitants of Brazilian shanty towns ) into city life is due to their rural values and orientations which are different from those of the city-born and though modified to some extent by the new situation , still hinder a smooth-adaptation ( Bonilla 1970 ) . |
| 10 | Now obviously commercial requirements might mean that that is modified to some extent . |
| 11 | I think Mum 's come to some sort of agreement with Viola over the profits . |
| 12 | Now that those plans have at last come to some fruition , Abraham 's obedience must be tested again . |
| 13 | Now then , if the council could , could 've come to some agreement and put in there , it would of made it right for us , now , you see we 've done so before , this is what I do n't like about he , he applies for planning permission does er the notice was no bigger than six inches long and four |
| 14 | ‘ I would have had to have come to some arrangement with Janice — separate houses , separate lives — and taken on the job of looking after Kirsty myself , even if it had meant giving up my job . ’ |
| 15 | However , the issues are of central importance and can be simplified to some extent . |
| 16 | To be shocked ( i.e. get your hit ) requires that the individual be immersed to some degree in a culture or value system . |
| 17 | A fire , previously confined to some degree , involving such extreme densities of fire load , may be transformed from a ventilation controlled fire to one of the unrestrained burning by such circumstances and produce large volumes of radiated heat in addition to large flames . |
| 18 | He accepts that their actions are constrained to some extent by trade unions , workers , managers , and the government of the day ( in the last case particularly if the Conservative Party is not in government ) . |
| 19 | Indirectly , therefore , air quality is frequently considered to some extent in this strategy and it is seldom found in its pure form . |
| 20 | Cos these 'll have to be clarified to some degree . |
| 21 | In practice , since philosophy often proceeds by paying attention to past philosophers and their ideas , the two categories overlapped to some extent with each other , and with a third category , political philosophy , which looks at the political philosophers in the light of the practice and experiences of feminist politics ( see Okin , 1980 ; Elshtain , 1981 ; O'Brien , 1981 ) . |
| 22 | Under the new regime for companies this problem has been addressed to some extent . |
| 23 | The strength of the critics ’ arguments was neutralized to some extent by Macmillan 's determination to seek both nuclear and conventional disarmament with the twin-track approach , which has remained valid to this day : maintaining the potency of the deterrent while , at the same time , seeking genuine arms limitation , if not disarmament . |
| 24 | The subjectivity of the whole procedure and particularly of this last section was alleviated to some extent by each teacher being observed by more than one member of the Senior Management Team and this aspect of the review may be deemed to be reasonably reliable . |
| 25 | Our clinical findings suggest that the neuronal disorder may be compensated to some degree because the intestines are richly innervated . |
| 26 | I was compensated to some extent by the magnificent scenery . |
| 27 | This can be counteracted to some extent by the addition of materials such as poly-phosphates , which sequester the calcium and magnesium ions , but this is an expensive way of softening water . |
| 28 | ‘ Perhaps it is to be applied to some kind of child 's toy — a gunpowder-propelled kite ! ’ |
| 29 | Any theory of sentence production , then , will be a theory which describes what the constructive processes are which , when applied to some thought which a speaker wishes to convey to someone else , result in the formulation and production of an appropriate sentence . |
| 30 | Initially these had applied to some building programmes in 1974/75 , but the new controls were extended and grafted on to volume control in 1976 . |