Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] some extent " in BNC.

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1 As in the Z2 Carbonate , the platform sediments prograded to some extent over the top of already deposited slope carbonates and , consequently , a lower unit of slope and upper unit of platform sediments is commonly encountered in the Z3 Carbonate ( Fig. 28 ) .
2 All the major parties were committed to some extent to discredited policies and persons .
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 " Since it matters to some extent ( and perhaps a good deal ) which rule is chosen , we do best to use convention only to protect decisions that some responsible political institution has actually taken on the merits and to not include under that umbrella decisions by default , that is decisions no one has actually made .
5 This could act to some extent as a rival system to the more traditional system of alliances and pacts in the Third World upheld by the Western powers .
6 Equally remarkable were the ambition and determination that pushed to completion her final novel , which is also her masterpiece , South Riding ( published posthumously in 1936 and awarded the James Tait Black memorial prize ) : a rich regional study of social change and local government , it drew to some extent on her mother 's experiences as the first woman alderman in the East Riding of Yorkshire .
7 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 ’ .
8 We have already inquired to some extent , and we shall have to inquire further , how far these assumptions are in accordance with the actual facts of life .
9 None of that would of course be comprehensible to Moss and McGrindle , he wrote , to Pizzetti and Baiocchi , to Goldman and Goldstein , though Goldberg , to his credit , has had an inkling , has to some extent faced the thought that he might be wasting his whole life , for that 's what it comes down to in the end , he wrote , wasting a whole life when something useful might have been salvaged , something valuable perhaps , it is the refusal of those alternatives that occasionally makes one shiver .
10 Finniston believes that the enterprise culture that has been fostered by the present government has to some extent fuelled a disregard for social responsibility .
11 This has to some extent demonstrated the pivotal role the DM will play even in an enlarged ERM which includes sterling .
12 Karajan was by instinct and training a man of the theatre and it is another of those paradoxes surrounding his career that this central aspect of his art has to some extent been obscured from the general public gaze .
13 Mr Moynihan blamed his defeat on the ‘ collapse of the Liberal Democrat vote , which came from Labour some years ago and has to some extent returned there ’ .
14 The scale of concern recently about the level of indiscipline and disruption in many schools resulting from pupil misbehaviour has to some extent been unwarranted , possibly inflamed by scare stories in the media and a greater willingness on the part of the profession , during a period of low morale and frustration , to report incidences of disruption and physical attacks on teachers .
15 The establishment of the UK clearinghouse was one response to this but the British Library Research and Development Department itself , through its deliberations on its programme of research and development in user education , has to some extent been a co-ordinating influence , though with a low profile .
16 To have missed these , by chance or design , means that this book has to some extent failed in its major aims which were ‘ to give a balanced account of the main ideas and achievements of sociobiology and the main criticisms levelled against this new discipline ’ .
17 From this suggestion developed the Assessment of Performance Unit ( APU ) which has to some extent moved discussion away from process to concentrate upon a measurable product .
18 The best it has been able to achieve is loose , probabilistic associations which sometimes , in all but the terminology used , have treated individual offenders as at least partially free , rational and choice-making ( and in so doing , has to some extent converged with classical criminology ) .
19 In recent years , however , the Child Poverty Action Group has made considerable use of judicial review as a way of attacking what they see as faults in the social security system , and this has to some extent overcome the barriers to the use of judicial review in this area .
20 Such a view implies the incorporation of the arts or humanities into the broad domain of the social or human sciences , a development which has to some extent occurred in France with the concept of sciences humaines and in Germany under the rubric of Geisteswissenschaft .
21 The terms of this participation have been endlessly argued about , and the increasing practice of the advance on royalties has to some extent modified it , in restoring an element of purchase .
22 As in the lowlands , the traditional landscape has to some extent been preserved by the economic irrationality of farmers — although in the uplands it consists of their ability to hold on against all the odds rather than disavow the pursuit of maximum profits .
23 One is that , because in general these trends are not only national but also nationwide , the structure and composition of the population in each place in Britain has to some extent tended to change along similar lines , albeit not at precisely the same rates .
24 The appearance of women at Russian stations has to some extent been matched by a growth in women 's employment in railways elsewhere .
25 In this example , whilst the market has to some extent been created by the regulators , the safety technology has been transferred mainly through the business activities of the safety consultants .
26 This is particularly likely in the case of Euro-DM business , which has to some extent been driven abroad by restrictions on the German banking sector .
27 Recently , chairman of ICI and Zeneca , said Zeneca was unlikely to go onto the takeover trail : ‘ The number of '80s-style expansionary acquisitions has to some extent levelled off , or declined .
28 I , my interest lies particularly I think in the kind of erm popular fiction written in America between the wars , though it has to some extent carried on since World War Two .
29 The demand industrially of course , has to some extent followed the fortunes of the national economy .
30 False cases offset under-reporting to some extent .
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