Example sentences of "was [vb pp] [prep] some extent " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sandys ' task was eased to some extent by Macmillan 's success in reestablishing the Anglo-American special relationship . |
| 2 | She was , in other words , a genuine believer in the ideals of enlightened government ( perhaps a more sincere one than the king of Prussia ) ; but her application of these ideals was limited to some extent by her personal weaknesses and far more by the demands and pressures of the situation in which history had placed her . |
| 3 | " I was delayed to some extent because the address given to me was 626 Cheyne Walk , which I could not find , but eventually the river police directed me . " |
| 4 | The subjectivity of the whole procedure and particularly of this last section was alleviated to some extent by each teacher being observed by more than one member of the Senior Management Team and this aspect of the review may be deemed to be reasonably reliable . |
| 5 | It was supplemented to some extent by the druzhinii ( volunteer popular detachments ) , formed in 1959 . |
| 6 | The strength of the critics ’ arguments was neutralized to some extent by Macmillan 's determination to seek both nuclear and conventional disarmament with the twin-track approach , which has remained valid to this day : maintaining the potency of the deterrent while , at the same time , seeking genuine arms limitation , if not disarmament . |
| 7 | I was compensated to some extent by the magnificent scenery . |
| 8 | This was attributed to some extent to heightened expectations among the disenfranchised majority , and , in Natal , to a bitter struggle for political control of the townships . |
| 9 | That report from the Mayo clinic was mirrored to some extent by the study of Pescatori and Mattana who reported that 45% of patients over the age of 45 experienced faecal soiling , whereas only 24% of patients under 45 years of age did so . |
| 10 | The force of this argument was recognised to some extent by the OFT , who went on to state that a limit on each claim was preferable to an overall limit , providing the extent of the former was made clear to clients . |
| 11 | This optimism was shared to some extent by students , especially those learning technical subjects . |
| 12 | On the other hand , while the High Authority required the support of the Council in , for example , any attempt to limit output because of overproduction or when seeking an equitable distribution of supplies during a shortage in output , the Council of Ministers was inhibited to some extent because the national governments did not directly finance the ECSC . |
| 13 | In the spring of 1922 their management was decentralized to some extent and subjected to khozraschet ( strict accounting principles ) . |
| 14 | As this conclusion was supported to some extent by the earlier Jones-Connelly conversations and other intelligence data , Shaughnessy and his colleagues now felt obliged to put Aviv 's findings to the test . |
| 15 | At the same time , his chief object of popular musical study , the Tin Pan Alley hit , was governed to some extent by those criteria , thus confirming him in his approach , and discouraging any consideration of possible new criteria . |
| 16 | Ackerman found that , where companies were more integrated in structure , the project was defined to some extent at divisional level and promoted to some degree at head-office level , but the general pattern was the progression through the organization indicated in figure 7.1 . |
| 17 | In the initial phase of the project this proved impossible , in terms of equipment and volunteers , but was remedied to some extent later by Operation Merlin , whereby intensive efforts provided round-the-clock monitoring for periods of a month at a time . |
| 18 | This very influential paper was succeeded by others , many also published as Professional Papers , and including exposition of the concept of entropy ( Leopold and Langbein , 1962 ) which is referred to later ( p. 159 ) although the emphasis upon contemporary environments which was being promulgated was reconciled to some extent with the more historical approaches by the time-scales devised by Schumm and Lichty ( 1965 ) as indicated at the beginning of chapter 8 ( p. 162 ) . |
| 19 | Salisbury again toiled in vain , but Munton commanded respect and Lewis bowled better than of late , and England 's self-respect was retrieved to some extent . |