Example sentences of "[vb pp] to some [noun] " 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 | At interview , W responded to some questions by ‘ nothing to say , ’ including questions seeking his observations on what had been seen by the officers . |
| 7 | That 's been partially responded to some people suspect for political reasons and rushing to that on report and I think we need to consider that in a more way . |
| 8 | It was supplemented to some extent by the druzhinii ( volunteer popular detachments ) , formed in 1959 . |
| 9 | New material , both archival and interpretative , requires these judgements to be modified to some degree . |
| 10 | Most legislation is modified to some degree as a consequence , sometimes extensively . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | Now obviously commercial requirements might mean that that is modified to some extent . |
| 13 | All rooms are twin bedded although a third bed can be added to some rooms . |
| 14 | There was also , around 1600 BC , a striking new development in pottery style , with marine reliefs added to some vases at Knossos and Phaistos , reliefs depicting shells , crabs , seaweed , rocks and dolphins . |
| 15 | I think Mum 's come to some sort of agreement with Viola over the profits . |
| 16 | Now that those plans have at last come to some fruition , Abraham 's obedience must be tested again . |
| 17 | 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 |
| 18 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 19 | However , the issues are of central importance and can be simplified to some extent . |
| 20 | To be shocked ( i.e. get your hit ) requires that the individual be immersed to some degree in a culture or value system . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 ) . |
| 23 | Indirectly , therefore , air quality is frequently considered to some extent in this strategy and it is seldom found in its pure form . |
| 24 | Cos these 'll have to be clarified to some degree . |
| 25 | It was forecast that by the close of 1991 the revenue from sales worldwide of CD-ROM hardware and software would have amounted to some $3.2 billion of which the title component would be $2.3 billion , a proportion which would steadily increase . |
| 26 | If you can accept this concept , you will then be able to understand in principle why some people are predisposed to some illnesses or tend to be sensitive to certain types of dietary changes , groups of food , or nutritional deficiencies . |
| 27 | 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 ) . |
| 28 | Slipper of the Yard objected to some passages in Delano 's book but did not resort to litigation . |
| 29 | Under the new regime for companies this problem has been addressed to some extent . |
| 30 | 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 . |