Example sentences of "to some extent " in BNC.
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| 1 | None of that would of course be comprehensible to Moss and McGrindle , he wrote , to Pizzetti and Baiocchi , to Goldman and Goldstein , though Goldberg , to his credit , has had an inkling , has to some extent faced the thought that he might be wasting his whole life , for that 's what it comes down to in the end , he wrote , wasting a whole life when something useful might have been salvaged , something valuable perhaps , it is the refusal of those alternatives that occasionally makes one shiver . |
| 2 | The aim of this report is not to demand that brewers turn the block back to 1620 , 1720 , 1820 or even to 1920 ; pubs have to make money , and have to adapt to some extent to changing needs and expectations . |
| 3 | Taking up residence in Colchester went very well — though I was a bit surprised to find that the ‘ de-skilling ’ process mentioned by the resettlement officer had indeed affected me to some extent . |
| 4 | To some extent these academic outsiders are ‘ the enemy ’ of police society , whose training and class aspirations makes them supporters of the status quo and resentful of liberal ideas or academic intrusion ( Reiner 1978a ) . |
| 5 | It was during this time that he was invited to the discussions of the CIV/n group , a gathering of poets of the more serious sort — and to some extent inspired by Ezra Pound 's revitalising energies , even as its name was culled from his writings — who had just launched a new poetry magazine of that name . |
| 6 | To some extent the heroes and heroines of classical ballet also use occupational gesture when they indicate hores riding , hunting , lute-playing and singing . |
| 7 | To some extent the same idea of an onlooker applies to that of Jaeger , the critic in Enigma Variations . |
| 8 | This , I believe , is against the law , but it is a law that deserves to be broken , for it is the puritanical nonsense of excluding children — and therefore to some extent , women — from pubs that has turned these places into mere boozing-shops instead of the family gathering-places that they ought to be . ’ |
| 9 | Which one to use depends , to some extent , upon the appearance which you wish to achieve , which may be an oiled or waxed appearance , a high gloss , satin or matt finish , and on what is being finished . |
| 10 | The graduate in English was to be to some extent a scholar , in so far as he or she had a sense of the past and the capacity to understand literature in its historical contexts , particularly linguistic ; beyond that , what was looked for was wide reading , an appreciation of masterpieces , and a capacity to write well , attend to evidence , and disentangle sense from nonsense in argument . |
| 11 | There is also a suspicion in some circles that the campaign is to some extent driven by a form of ‘ closet unionism ’ ; a motive the Belfast campaigners attribute freely to their Tory counterparts . |
| 12 | Universities attract this kind of attitude , as , to some extent , does the campus novel , a brand of fiction which is probably the closest English departments have previously come to industrial production . |
| 13 | Having sacrificed his career , in a way , for this mission , he talks as though he means to continue with it , of returning again and again to the theme that the stable family is the means of prosperity and , to some extent , happiness . |
| 14 | After 10 years , the cocaine trade has joined , and to some extent displaced , the traditional elite class . |
| 15 | Meanwhile , China , East Germany 's biggest ally , had to step up patrols along its border with Hong Kong after creating , to some extent , its own refugee problem . |
| 16 | ‘ That was true of Mussolini and Hitler above all ; and to some extent of Reagan , you see . |
| 17 | Therefore , it is the very ordinariness of the RUC 's policing in Easton which is surprising and provides the greatest disjuncture with public imagery rather than the fact that it contradicts , to some extent , the formal regimen of the police manual or the bureaucratic ethos of police management . |
| 18 | To some extent the difference between this view and the developmental approach is one of semantics : the term ‘ global company ’ does not mean the same to each . |
| 19 | In order to circumvent this bias to some extent , let us first burrow beneath this middle level to look at grass-roots religious sentiment which for the most part in 1922 escaped party supervision , since the latter was restricted geographically to the larger centres of habitation and their immediate hinterland . |
| 20 | They had suffered in the Civil War from requisitioning by Red , White , and Green armies , and to some extent from the Bolshevik-inspired kombedy ( committees of poor peasants ) . |
| 21 | For lack of funds , equipment , and means of control , central government and famine-free areas had to stand by passively to some extent as disease-ridden migrants besieged them . |
| 22 | In the spring of 1922 their management was decentralized to some extent and subjected to khozraschet ( strict accounting principles ) . |
| 23 | This is a scottish rock band ( every album has to be categorized to some extent in order to sell it ) . |
| 24 | The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism showed Eliot again considering poetry 's primitive roots and to some extent consciously reorienting himself towards romanticism . |
| 25 | However , to some extent the neglect of such important issues of the difference in the meaning of marriage and divorce to men and women , the contradictions in the thinking and behaviour of the two sexes , and the negotiation of their positions has something to do with another presentist shadow : that of feminism . |
| 26 | Finniston believes that the enterprise culture that has been fostered by the present government has to some extent fuelled a disregard for social responsibility . |
| 27 | Haslam learned the hard way how to handle such a traumatic situation and how to some extent to play God when it became necessary to select the people who had to go . |
| 28 | Laing accepts that to some extent he was born with a silver spoon in his mouth . |
| 29 | All of the children had to contribute and to some extent we lost our childhood . |
| 30 | These phrases do , however , have the ring of truth in an aesthetic sense — or rather there was an aesthetic process involved which had to some extent its own story . |