Example sentences of "[is] to some " in BNC.
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| 1 | Again , that 's to some extent , it 's a grammatical convention , rather than a er a letter form convention , but it is extra letters . |
| 2 | The belief is to some degree affected by being told so by their authoritative pastors . |
| 3 | The criticism that extracts are leading the brewers into the same realms of flavouring technology as the food industry is to some degree unfair since the extracts are modifications of existing ingredients . |
| 4 | This emphasis made the so-called ‘ monologic ’ forms of literature problematical , and Lodge quotes from an interesting late essay by Bakhtin which seems to suggest that all literary discourse is to some degree dialogic . |
| 5 | There is also a suspicion in some circles that the campaign is to some extent driven by a form of ‘ closet unionism ’ ; a motive the Belfast campaigners attribute freely to their Tory counterparts . |
| 6 | The choice of manufacturing technique is to some extent governed by the metal or alloy used and by the intended finished shape . |
| 7 | In other words , it is not arbitrary that the wolf and dog are closer to one another than either is to the cat , but it is to some extent arbitrary whether one recognizes some given degree of similarity by placing two species in the same genus , or in the same family . |
| 8 | This is starting to become a trend in Britain as well , although the planning system which encourages standard development is to some extent acting as a block . |
| 9 | Cullen is a Morse veteran , the cast is to some extent interchangeable , and the story is re-jigged so that instead of opening in Paris — as in the book — it began with the Fellows ' Winter Feast at St Mark 's College , with intrigue and skulduggery at high table . |
| 10 | It is in fact the commercially provided infrastructure that is most lacking , and many people live a long way from a shop , although this is to some extent made up for by mobile shops . |
| 11 | In origin they are Indian traditions , Hinduism and ( what is to some extent its off-shoot ) Buddhism . |
| 12 | The next reference in 1955 is to some bonds having been transferred and this is found in the first Bondholders ' Minutes written by their new Secretary , J. H. ( Harry ) Tomalin . |
| 13 | Coal as an export commodity is to some extent a casualty of the shift in the economic mix of the Western industrialised nations away from energy intensive ‘ smokestack ’ industries and towards higher added value , higher technology industries . |
| 14 | The decision is to some extent arbitrary , but there are several relevant considerations . |
| 15 | Julius Caesar is to some extent a case apart , being not only one of his most successful operas when first performed in 1724 , but also the most frequently revived this century , recently even having the dubious distinction of being given the ‘ Peter Sellars ’ treatment on television . |
| 16 | Because the experience of parenthood is to some extent idealized in our culture we have chosen to draw attention to stressful aspects of the transitions involved . |
| 17 | The voyeur , in controlling the gaze , is to some extent in control of the action before his eyes , especially if the action relates to a supposedly inferior or primitive civilisation . |
| 18 | Each life decision is to some extent irrevocable , since even if one goes back to the fork in the road and takes the other turning , he can not eradicate the effects of the experience the first choice has brought him . |
| 19 | For most of us , though , gaining recognition from others is to some extent dependent on our confidence in letting others know who we are and what we 're about . |
| 20 | Although this characteristic is to some extent a handicap in that they can not be used , for instance , with boiling water , there are very great manufacturing advantages since the stuff can be squirted out hot in the form of tubes and sections or else into an elaborately shaped mould where it can be hardened almost instantaneously by rapid chilling . |
| 21 | It should be emphasized that the interpretation of users ' actions is to some extent context-driven . |
| 22 | The prediction in relation to language learning is to some extent confusing . |
| 23 | ‘ An out-party sometimes forgets that the power it exercises as an opposition is to some extent in the hands of journalists ’ ; the more supportive the press is of the opposition party , the more pressure it can bring on the party in power . |
| 24 | Even in the Constitution on the Liturgy , approved in the second session , where a theology of liturgical pluralism is to some extent accepted , there is no use of the word ‘ church ’ in the plural nor of the phrase ‘ ecclesia particularis ’ ( particular church ) , though the thought of the constitution would have benefited from such use . |
| 25 | Today , Sartre 's voluntarism is to some extent returning to favour as the result of a desire to retrieve the categories of agency and the subject , which goes together with the wish to get out of the apparently totalizing systems of Adorno , Althusser or Foucault . |
| 26 | While this is to some extent true , it does not mean that workers in small firms are not expected to show family-style loyalties . |
| 27 | Carlotta de Leyva belongs to one of the liberal families opposed to the dictator Lopez and as the betrothed of the leader of that opposition , Don Manuel of Encinitas , she is to some extent a figurehead , a political symbol : moreover , to the youth of eighteen , Highworth Ridden , who is introduced to her soon after his arrival in Santa Barbara , she is an ideal because she is in effect the first woman who has ever touched his love , as someone to be served , not someone to aspire to . |
| 28 | It seems likely that dementia is the extreme end of a continuum of behaviour ; the point prevalence is to some degree determined by where the case definition line is drawn . |
| 29 | If the source marker precedes the quoted words , the reader is to some extent prepared . |
| 30 | In other words , each group of problems is to some extent causative of the other groups . |