Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [prep] [adj] extent " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ With the Tottenham Three being acquitted , people feel the problem has been ameliorated to some extent , ’ said a campaigner . |
| 2 | The bone in predator assemblages is often well preserved but has also been modified to varying extents . |
| 3 | The port 's operations are subsidized to some extent by the local authorities but in the main the port is financed by port dues and this had led to a demand that any port land released for development should yield significant port use in order to generate revenue . |
| 4 | He accepts that their actions are constrained to some extent by trade unions , workers , managers , and the government of the day ( in the last case particularly if the Conservative Party is not in government ) . |
| 5 | Under the new regime for companies this problem has been addressed to some extent . |
| 6 | This question has been answered to some extent by a recent paper which showed a significantly higher mortality and morbidity among diabetics discharged solely to primary care in the community compared to those cared for by the hospital diabetic clinic ( Hayes & Harries , 1984 ) . |
| 7 | This quantitative approach has been adopted to some extent by at least one local authority as the policy statement below illustrates : |
| 8 | There are smaller differences between countries for this variable than for the other dependents , and the overall significant correlations are reflected to some extent in all countries except Japan . |
| 9 | In recent years the breed has been exported to some extent to Jamaica , Uganda , Saudi Arabia and Iran but more widely to Canada , the USA and New Zealand . |
| 10 | These are buffered to some extent by coral sand and gravel . |
| 11 | Notwithstanding these developments , however , even in some European countries the tendency towards decentralisation in collective negotiations has been offset to some extent by cross-currents . |
| 12 | The development of sub-degree courses has also been inhibited to some extent because better staffing ratios , more generous accommodation and higher salaries have accrued from teaching full-time degree level students . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | How their roles might be enhanced in recognition of the behavioural literature will be examined to some extent in chapter 9 . |
| 15 | However , the issues are of central importance and can be simplified to some extent . |
| 16 | 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 ’ . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | If sleep is taken at an unusual time , the changes associated with it ( the release of some hormones , the type of sleep ) will be affected to different extents depending on whether they are dominated by external factors or the body clock . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 ) . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The argument that the court should take account of the fact that the wearing of a seat belt would have caused other injuries of a different nature was rejected as a matter of principle in Patience v Andrews [ 1983 ] RTR 447 : it is respectfully submitted that this decision is wrong and does not give effect to the provision in s1 of the Law Reform ( Contributory Negligence ) Act 1945 , that damages should be reduced to such extent as the court thinks just and equitable . |
| 25 | Dictionaries define one word in terms of others , and this characteristic may be shared to some extent by semantic memory . |
| 26 | That said , we must note that in common with so many other innovators , Durkheim 's insights can also be found to some extent in the works of others . |
| 27 | Political power may be decentralized to some extent , made more democratic , involve the active participation of larger numbers of people , become less directly coercive , but there seems to be no ground upon which to base a theory of the total ‘ withering away ’ of the state and the whole political sphere . |
| 28 | This is a scottish rock band ( every album has to be categorized to some extent in order to sell it ) . |
| 29 | This may be caused to some extent by the general abstractness of the language ; but it is also a matter of the kinds of syntactic presentation and complexity that James favours : ( i ) Just as he seems to avoid calling a spade a spade , so James seems to avoid putting first things first . |
| 30 | The effects of Muller 's ratchet in the maternal complement in these hybrid offspring may therefore be masked to some extent by wild-type alleles in the paternal complement . |