Example sentences of "be [adj] to [det] extent " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most building materials are porous to some extent , although in a well-designed and properly maintained building the absorbed moisture can evaporate harmlessly to the outside . |
| 2 | The Water Authority , well , there again , they 're interested to some extent in forecast rainfall , but they 're more interested in erm how much rain has fallen over quite a big area and erm over what a , what sort of period , so we maintain all the rainfall statistics throughout the country . |
| 3 | Again , computer models ( incorporating knowledge gained from previous dams ) can be used to some extent to predict the likely effects of future projects . |
| 4 | Need animals be used to this extent ? |
| 5 | Even so , if the sequence is to come off it will have to be stage-managed to some extent : children who are young enough to believe in Santa Claus are not old enough to carry the action on their own without the help of an adult to keep things moving . |
| 6 | Whilst the first alternative can be effective to some extent , there is a limit to which expenditure of this kind can be reduced . |
| 7 | This means Punch should be cynical to some extent , As for ‘ reputable ’ , that 's the last thing Punch should be . |
| 8 | All paradigms will be inadequate to some extent as far as their match with nature is concerned . |
| 9 | The uncontrolled increase in the number of authors might be remediable to some extent by journals devising a collective policy . |
| 10 | In the earlier regime it was accepted that rules had to be general to some extent , and open to change to allow for adaptation to changing circumstances . |
| 11 | Some of the following may be repetitive to some extent , and the reader is asked to excuse this as the writer finds it difficult to avoid repeating some of his thoughts in a subject so fraught with difficulties of explanation , and covering such a wide field . |
| 12 | This does not just include design and quality engineers : everyone within the company must be aware to some extent . |
| 13 | So in all these kinds of different ways , religion provides succour erm , gratification and er , is the fulfilment of people 's wishes , particularly th their frustrations , their erm , feelings of er being the victims as it were , of the world , can be satisfied to some extent by religious belief , which holds out some , some prospect of and hope , at least in the afterlife , if not , if not in this life . |
| 14 | This may be true to some extent , but let us examine the position arithmetically . |
| 15 | As regards the appropriation of funds for the purposes of planned provision , a first point is that the financial institutions could be short-circuited to some extent by increasing taxation of the wealthy . |
| 16 | Despite the inherent difficulties in comparative work it has been argued that an international perspective has always been implicit to some extent in the study of industrial relations . |
| 17 | Metals , glass , brick , paper , plastic , cotton , nylon for example are non-volatile at room temperature and therefore non-odorous , whereas the solvents carbon tetrachloride , trichlorotrifluoroethane , alcohol etc. , perfumes and petroleum products , to mention but a few , are volatile to some extent at room temperature and consequently have distinctive odours . |
| 18 | The vast majority of marine fish available to the hobbyist are territorial to some extent and this instinct nearly always takes the form of a horizontal , rather than a vertical area . |
| 19 | For example , both were concerned to some extent with the following : |
| 20 | The reluctance of translators to use it is understandable to some extent . |
| 21 | The other root of the idea of restraints is shared by medieval and modern constitutionalism and is peculiar to some extent to Western culture . |
| 22 | For this kind of complex evocation to be effective in multi-party talk ( such as conversation ) , the participants must share at least some of the speaker 's perceptions about the speech styles in question : in other words , the evocation of a persona is dependent to some extent on the existence of shared stereotypes among the parties to the talk . |
| 23 | Yes , I think that 's inevitable to some extent . |
| 24 | The naturally-occurring invisible gas is present to some extent in every home in Britain . |
| 25 | To reduce this hardship the Act provides that if the charge is void to any extent for non-registration the whole of the sum thereby secured becomes immediately repayable on demand . |
| 26 | This is true to some extent on a Business Studies course , but learning about commercial activity is only a part of your studies . |
| 27 | This is true to some extent but the analogy must not be taken too far as there are some important differences . |
| 28 | I think that probably is true to some extent . |
| 29 | That 's true to some extent . |
| 30 | He certainly never wrote anything more , so she was right to that extent . |