Example sentences of "[adj] to some " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other root of the idea of restraints is shared by medieval and modern constitutionalism and is peculiar to some extent to Western culture . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Such language seems vacuous to some , but if we are to comprehend the nature of the arts in particular , being is a concept which it seems difficult to do without . |
| 4 | That Immigration Officers should be National Front members may seem utterly wrong to some people but not to the Home Office . |
| 5 | Even at sixteen it was clear to some of those who observed him , as it was to William Joyce himself , that his were the qualities of a leader rather than a follower . |
| 6 | Cars have been popular in the movies since Mack Sennett was wrecking them around 1914 in such shorts as Lizzies of the Field — not funny to some members of early audiences , who were trying to save up for a Ford Model T or ‘ tin Lizzy ’ . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Parents are more responsive to some characteristics of their children than to others , and also to some stages of their development than to others . |
| 9 | The Whigs , however , were responsive to some of the movements of change and responsible in relation to the rest . |
| 10 | Fastback Plus Unix product marketing manager Neil Norton figures they 'll start moving 1,000 units a month direct to some large customers and through their channels . |
| 11 | I yearned towards the mystical earnestness which saw through the outer facing of existence in a oneness and blinding intensity which went direct to some essence of being . |
| 12 | We know that neither is averse to some dirty work to achieve his aims . |
| 13 | Farmers were never averse to some eager additional help at haymaking and harvesting time . |
| 14 | ( Vicky had told me she would not be averse to some of the loving attentions she was receiving . ) |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It may be able to detect the entire NCSA virus library , but it 's still oblivious to some viruses that have been common knowledge for many months . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Embarrassed to some extent by their traditional association with the Soviet Union , but at the same time drawing their identity from it , the communist parties of Western Europe have been passing through a period of internal crisis and conflict . |
| 19 | It is difficult to identify this character in unsectioned skulls , but it is likely that some degree of airorhynchy is primitive for hominoids , greatly exaggerated in the pongine lineage and modified towards klinorhynchy in hominines , but as my observations lead me to believe that the bonobo is airorhynchous to some degree , it is difficult to be sure of the ancestral hominine character state . |
| 20 | In June 1959 , however , the last performance occurred at the Chiswick Empire which was then pulled down and the site redeveloped as a tower office block , originally named ‘ Empire House ’ , but later that name did not prove acceptable to some local government officials , who considered that the name smacked of imperialism , so the block now has only numbers in Chiswick High Road . |
| 21 | Then people , for some ideological reason , people might say , well , you know , you ca n't say one form of communication is better than another , so that say , I do n't know , I suppose , a kind of feminist belief is better than Paradise Lost or something — well , it might be more acceptable to some people for various reasons , but I say some writing is more rewarding , ultimately some things are better than other things . |
| 22 | He must know — as I know — that some managers are more acceptable to some of the employees than others and that the employees may wish to follow those managers down this road . |
| 23 | They were not quite a secret society but certainly a network , not always trusted , not , indeed , acceptable to some bishops and in some livings . |
| 24 | If we had to go to France , that would create other questions which may or may not be quite as acceptable to some of the hon. Friends of the Member for Ruislip-Northwood ( Mr. Wilkinson ) , whose suspicion of things European have been evidenced — Not necessarily the Conservative Members who are present , but other Tory Members probably would not be quite so keen on — as they would see it — mortgaging their nuclear future to the French . |
| 25 | It is strange to relate that this short stretch of water should be such a barrier but the hills of Wouldham and village are as foreign to some people of Halling as any parts of the world and in fact there are some who travel all over the country and to some places abroad , but have lived all their lives in the village without ever setting foot on the further banks of the river . |
| 26 | Local environmentalists are concerned , however , that the new barrier scheme may be harmful to some marine wildlife , and that it would also be aesthetically unattractive . |
| 27 | I suppose I was a bit brutal to Elsie , a bit brutal to some of the other characters too , but realistic . |
| 28 | This feature of quantum mechanics proved very distasteful to some of the very men who had helped to create the subject . |
| 29 | But in a country such as Yugoslavia , which has a ‘ structural ’ disequilibrium in its balance of payments because of past mistakes and accumulated debts , the price of foreign exchange which would bring current demand and supply into equilibrium might be so high as to be very painful to some well-entrenched interests . |
| 30 | As this sounds vaguely similar to some of the insults being thrown at Ryan 's side , all hope is not lost . |