Example sentences of "[vb infin] [prep] some extent [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For there is an inevitable clash between what they believe the place of women should be , and the beliefs of the surrounding world in which they are set , and which indeed they may themselves have to some extent appropriated . |
| 2 | If you do give your heroine this skill you will have to some extent to prove to your readers that she had it . |
| 3 | Alterations in class composition around this time may have to some extent re-ordered the direction of artistic patronage . |
| 4 | But possibly not ; the rain , and the town between , might have to some extent blanketed the noise , from the camp . |
| 5 | It is for these reasons that his approach seems the more fruitful of the two in understanding the situation in advanced capitalist societies during the last twenty or thirty years , when Adorno 's conception of artistic totality , mirror image of an increasingly global , oppressive industrial totality , presents a theoretical cul-de-sac ; when , by contrast , we are actually bombarded by an increasingly heterogeneous mix of musical methods and messages , often seemingly cut free from traditions and sources , shifted around at random ; when listeners do seem to some extent to have learned , gradually , new perceptual skills , through several decades of habituation , enabling more active comparison of styles , a greater variety of uses and a more ‘ ironic ’ relationship to the stream of musical products ; and when the main opportunities for critique and subversion lie not in head-on ‘ romantic ’ protest but in exploiting temporary spaces , in the cracks and at the margins , within the monolith itself . |