Example sentences of "[vb past] [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | However , Alfort tried to some extent to offset the disadvantages of its location . |
| 4 | We suffered to some extent too . |
| 5 | England suffered to some extent from a similar gulf between her real power and her ceremonial status during the Interregnum of 1649 – 60 , a gulf in this case deepened by the widespread hostility aroused by the execution of Charles I. For several years the standing of the representatives abroad of the various Commonwealth governments was seriously weakened by the disappearance of the monarchy : in 1654 , for example , the Danish ambassador in Sweden claimed precedence over his English equivalent since the latter was acting for Cromwell , a mere protector , not for an anointed king . |
| 6 | I did tell him , however , that the older boys — and I was form-master of the modern sixth — were keenly interested in what was going on in modern literature , but that they seemed to some extent cushioned against modern life in their ignorance , which was almost total , of such currents of thought as Marxism . |
| 7 | This happened to some extent to the Slavs who invaded Greece in the sixth century , but in the Balkans three distinct Slav groups may be identified by the tenth century — the ancestors of the present-day Serbs , Croats , and Slovenes . |
| 8 | After 1945 democratic socialist parties in a number of West European countries were able , for the first time , to form governments or to become major partners in coalition governments , and thus impart a new direction to economic and social policy making ( and this also happened to some extent in other regions of the world , though encountering greater difficulties ) . |
| 9 | So the struggle became to some extent a contest between the German bishops and the pope , and the position of the German bishops in extending the conflict can only be understood if we understand their relationships with the political parties and the rival claimants . |
| 10 | After early May , Mrs Noble relented to some extent . |
| 11 | She succeeded to some extent when a most magnificent full-blossomed magnolia tree caught her eye . |
| 12 | This problem , also experienced to some extent in Nicaragua , has been particularly acute in Mozambique because of the high levels of illiteracy and shortages of skilled people at all levels , and the legacy of a highly authoritarian colonial school system . |
| 13 | That 's why I would expect to see and we planned to some extent , we may have under-planned an increase in costs . |
| 14 | Cistercian abbeys fell to some extent outside this category . |
| 15 | Matrix retaliated to some extent with their PCR/SlideWriter and more recently with the even cheaper ProColor but overall there is now much more of a market to choose from . |
| 16 | Although the increasing corporate and personal pressures on Mr Berry did to some extent explain his actions , the report says , they did not excuse them . |
| 17 | With Rufus it did to some extent come back again and all he could do was grind it down and soldier on . |
| 18 | Yet because Dornford Yates did to some extent invoke Ruritania in plot and mood it is fair to point to the way in which the code of chivalry has been debased and sentimentalised . |
| 19 | It did to some extent aggregate demands and turn them into viable policy issues , and it also acted as a downward channel of communication , explaining and rationalizing government policies in the hope of their greater acceptance by the citizens . |
| 20 | He recognized that the plebs participated to some extent in the affairs of the city ( 6.4.5 ) . |
| 21 | Roe took his men from Alderley Edge and concentrated the company 's efforts at the new ore-body and it is possible that interest in the Coniston venture waned to some extent . |
| 22 | They are , however , subsidized to some extent , and although the Remploy workers do a full day 's work they do not have quite such demands made on them as they would encounter in open employment . |
| 23 | These phrases do , however , have the ring of truth in an aesthetic sense — or rather there was an aesthetic process involved which had to some extent its own story . |
| 24 | The rainstorm had to some extent penetrated the tree-cover . |
| 25 | And the gap which had to some extent been there from the beginning in popular consciousness between ‘ Hitler 's war ’ for racial empire and territorial aggrandisement , and the patriotic defence of the ‘ Fatherland ’ was widening . |
| 26 | Using annual-change figures Champion ( 1983 , 1987 ) showed that the main decentralization process peaked in the early 1970s , and that by the time of the 1981 census the former pattern had to some extent reasserted itself . |
| 27 | The extraordinary achievements and transformation of 19th-century Japan , at least as a model for other parts of Asia , had to some extent been tarnished by her conflict with China and her consequent appearance in the ranks of the imperial powers . |
| 28 | But by the nineteenth century knowledge itself had expanded so rapidly , and interest in locating published accounts of very specific knowledge units had developed so greatly , that all previous expedients had to some extent broken down , and the new public libraries proliferating in the UK , the USA , and elsewhere gave an added impetus to invention . |
| 29 | This resolves the point that had to some extent been an open question before the Act . |
| 30 | In Trinidad meanwhile , Eric Williams ' fears about the West Indies succumbing to American imperialism had to some extent been realised . |