Example sentences of "[be] [verb] to some [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The language of the original , or oddities of spelling or punctuation , can be amended to some degree — an important consideration when using such material with primary school pupils or pupils with learning difficulties . |
| 2 | It was decided that in future the proceeds should be given to some charity , clearly stated beforehand , and this would encourage greater participation . |
| 3 | It should be noted , however , that the spatial impact of scale economies will be ameliorated to some extent if the relevant industry/sector is already integrated to a relatively high level within Europe . |
| 4 | How their roles might be enhanced in recognition of the behavioural literature will be examined to some extent in chapter 9 . |
| 5 | Whence it came it will return , perhaps again , to be communicated to some being higher than man , perhaps to pass through gradations of glory from the pale human soul to brighten the seraph . |
| 6 | Most can be developed to some degree , but could be restricted on size , headroom and shape . |
| 7 | However , the issues are of central importance and can be simplified to some extent . |
| 8 | New material , both archival and interpretative , requires these judgements to be modified to some degree . |
| 9 | 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 ’ . |
| 10 | Cos these 'll have to be clarified to some degree . |
| 11 | ‘ Perhaps it is to be applied to some kind of child 's toy — a gunpowder-propelled kite ! ’ |
| 12 | The helium may also be separated to some degree . |
| 13 | Governments have to govern people , and not only do their policies have a direct impact on the population at large , and are likely to be shaped to some degree by an awareness of what that impact might be , but policies can also be a response to pressures or problems that emerge out of society . |
| 14 | He insisted that this was a voice with characteristic qualities which might be exploited to some purpose on the air . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Consistently the view was presented that one had to feel that the job which one was doing at a particular time could be related to some end product . |
| 17 | Our clinical findings suggest that the neuronal disorder may be compensated to some degree because the intestines are richly innervated . |
| 18 | As Robert Dingwall ( 1989 ) has argued , the definition of the problem has undergone considerable ‘ diagnostic inflation ’ and the growth of research' reflects the transformation of the original concerns to embrace virtually any problem which may have an adverse impact on a child and can possibly be attributed to some act of commission or omission by an adult' . |
| 19 | There 'd be so many other people around that she 'd be cushioned to some degree from the effect of his presence , she had reasoned . |
| 20 | The nature of this partisan strife , and the precise relationship between Whig , Tory , Country and Court , was bound to be transformed to some extent as a result of the Glorious Revolution . |
| 21 | ‘ You should n't be going to some analyst every day for someone else , ’ Finch pushed on . |
| 22 | On 7 September he delivered a television broadcast in which he claimed that , for the sake of the economy and the national wellbeing , the election would be postponed to some time in 1979 . |
| 23 | But if the extra-mural department has a budget of the order of £50,000 a year , and a salary bill of the order of £40,000 a year , adult education has got to go on whether so-called voluntary committees want it or not ; and since a good deal of the teaching is done by full-time tutors , even the subjects taught will inevitably be dictated to some extent by the department and not by the voluntary groups . |
| 24 | All the people involved in those family relationships will be affected to some degree or another depending on how strong ( positively or negatively ) the emotional tie was . |
| 25 | This financial crowding out , as it is called , could be offset to some extent by an increase in the speed at which money circulates — the velocity of circulation . |
| 26 | The reduction in one liquid asset ( balances with the Bank of England ) will be offset to some extent by an increase in another liquid asset ( Treasury bills ) . |
| 27 | Not more than two adjoining fragments should be stuck at the same time , but for quickness different areas of the same bone can be reconstructed to some extent independently . |
| 28 | Ergo , Sir Ralph 's death must be linked to some mystery in his past , something connected with his days as a warrior in Outremer . ’ |
| 29 | ( ii ) The professional judgement of the assessors may be focused to some degree by the employment of criteria . |
| 30 | Dictionaries define one word in terms of others , and this characteristic may be shared to some extent by semantic memory . |