Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun sg] be to some " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the previous recession electronics were to some extent protected from the slump by companies ' enthusiasm for replacing old technologies with new . |
| 2 | Coal as an export commodity is to some extent a casualty of the shift in the economic mix of the Western industrialised nations away from energy intensive ‘ smokestack ’ industries and towards higher added value , higher technology industries . |
| 3 | The exposures for the field of view calculation and reference strip placement are to some extent arbitrary . |
| 4 | It seems likely that dementia is the extreme end of a continuum of behaviour ; the point prevalence is to some degree determined by where the case definition line is drawn . |
| 5 | Today the welfare state is to some extent ‘ under siege ’ . |
| 6 | But response rate is to some extent within control : a Modular Course survey of staff satisfaction with modification of a scheme for mapping courses on to timetable hours , yielded an ( internal ) postal return rate of 35 per cent . |
| 7 | Each life decision is to some extent irrevocable , since even if one goes back to the fork in the road and takes the other turning , he can not eradicate the effects of the experience the first choice has brought him . |
| 8 | The choice of manufacturing technique is to some extent governed by the metal or alloy used and by the intended finished shape . |
| 9 | The criticism that extracts are leading the brewers into the same realms of flavouring technology as the food industry is to some degree unfair since the extracts are modifications of existing ingredients . |
| 10 | The prediction in relation to language learning is to some extent confusing . |