Example sentences of "this [noun] be to [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sting of this question was to some extent drawn for Schleiermacher himself by the fact that he so closely identified immediate self-consciousness with God-consciousness as to believe that he had found a real and solid bridge between the two sides of the matter . |
| 2 | This picture is to some extent endorsed by the artillery themselves . |
| 3 | Since , however , this is an object relation — that is , since that bad object is itself a part of the ego — this denial is to some extent also a denial of a part of the ego . |
| 4 | This criticism was to some extent pre-empted in the report by recognition of such difficulties and there has been a movement in recent years to a further disaggregation of the relevant geographical unit . |
| 5 | In the United States this ideal is to some extent a matter |
| 6 | Table 5.4 also suggests another reason not to panic : that over the longer run the rise in the elderly population in the next century and the rise in the numbers of very elderly in this century is to some degree offset by a projected fall in the number of very young non-workers , i.e. , that the relationship between total so-called ‘ dependency ’ and the size of the population of working age may not change significantly . |
| 7 | Although this characteristic is to some extent a handicap in that they can not be used , for instance , with boiling water , there are very great manufacturing advantages since the stuff can be squirted out hot in the form of tubes and sections or else into an elaborately shaped mould where it can be hardened almost instantaneously by rapid chilling . |
| 8 | The rules today are contained in the Limitation Act 1980 and all the references in this section are to that statute . |