Example sentences of "[conj] [be] to [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Throughout the world there exist diseases caused by treponemes that are to all intents and purposes identical to Treponema pallidum yet which are not transmitted sexually and , in some cases , may coexist with syphilis in the community . |
| 2 | Then : Hence , the four fifths of the file loaded later contains 40.458 per cent of synonyms , and 59.542 per cent of home records ; the 20 per cent of all accesses to the file that are to these records will therefore be split in this proportion . |
| 3 | Both include wilderness , an altogether more delicate asset that is to some degree marred by almost any human incursion . |
| 4 | This is because the additional semantic traits normally carried by mare are already inferable from the rest of the sentence , and are to that degree superfluous . |
| 5 | Ley hunters today tend to think of leys purely as alignments and are to some extent dubious about Watkins 's idea of old straight tracks-though the South American paths do present a question mark here . |
| 6 | Other publications emanating from official enquiries , such as the French National Assembly 's postwar investigation of the events of the 1930s , may without being corrupt , nevertheless reflect special interests and be to that extent unrepresentative . |
| 7 | Her adherence to some of the beliefs has been inspired by and is to that extent under some pressure not amounting to undue pressure from her mother . |
| 8 | The contrast between professional norms and bureaucratic norms is a familiar theme in the literature on professions , and is to some extent exemplified in the ambiguous relationship between academics and administrators in higher education itself . |
| 9 | First , spending on residential care in private sector homes for elderly people through the social security budget was rising at an exponential rate and was to all intents and purposes out of control , being demand led . |
| 10 | Law and the legal system thus have to be seen in a differentiated way , no longer consistently structured by one uniform language and one common principle ( such as a hierarchy of values or a grundnorm ) , but as being to some extent split into a plurality of legal arenas ( Lowi , 1972 ) . |