Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] to some " in BNC.
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| 1 | So perhaps in some ways er we would deduce from this that the the motive of the revolutionaries in sixty eight was in perhaps to some extent to complete what had been started in seventeen eighty nine but not finished and somebody would , Clinton presumably he would say I 'm gon na complete the programme that John F Kennedy started , but was unable to finish because the tragic way in which his career was ended . |
| 2 | By making more use of data from the sky , particle physics could well be freed , at least to some extent , from the dark caverns of ever-bigger atom smashers . |
| 3 | The pattern is not arbitrary , but the words we use to describe it are , at least to some extent . |
| 4 | A genuine social consciousness , motivated at least to some degree by idealism for the attainment of an educated democracy was an indispensable factor in a self-sustaining , progressive momentum for the growth of the WEA in rural areas . |
| 5 | Whereas the view of mid-century literature as preromantic was effectively demolished by Northrop Frye there is a danger now of regarding women writers as pilgrims on the way to modern feminism , or at least to some recognizable place in the history of women 's writing . |
| 6 | In particular , associations will also be formed between the context and the US , allowing the former to come to elicit , at least to some degree , the CR evoked by the nominal CS . |
| 7 | In old age , there may be the will to retain independence in this AL but circumstances and the effects of the process of ageing may force an elderly person to be dependent on others , at least to some degree . |
| 8 | At least to some observers — notably the Docklands Consultative Committee ( 1985 ; 1988 ) , a grouping of local political and community interests — these and similar misgivings have proved all too real . |
| 9 | When in 1963 I read The American fluoridation Experiment by F. B. Exner and G. L. Waldbott , I was left in no doubt that besides being unethical , fluoridation was both ineffective as a prophylactic treatment and a needless risk , at least to some people , in the long term . |
| 10 | This faith could be said to rely , at least to some extent , on that part of the teachings of the Old Testament which claims that a ‘ god ’ had promised sovereignty over the Promised Land , or what is now Palestine , to the descendants of Abraham . |
| 11 | Gunn is something of an oddity — at least to some viewers of the local scene . |
| 12 | Later on , in a pub , Mr Smith chats to a friend : ‘ Of course we 've got to get stuck in , at least to some extent , because the alternatives make the mind boggle . ’ |
| 13 | But such conflicts can often be resolved and the oppositions reconciled , at least to some degree , at the level of principle . |
| 14 | The fact that such grammatically incorrect combinations are frequently systematic ( Berko 1958 ; Ivimey 1975 ) suggests that children are organising their utterances on the basis of a knowledge of rules , rather than simply in response to environmental contingencies , and that such rules are , at least to some extent , generated spontaneously . |
| 15 | Before this visit , Anselm shows no signs of being influenced by the Gregorian concept of the libertas ecclesiae ; after his visit , he both used the phrase and supported the policy which the phrase summed up — at least to some extent . |
| 16 | For the purposes of my present argument , however , of even greater importance than the influence exercised by Les Annales is the fact that their approach is clearly governed by the idea — definitive of concessive holism — that individualist and holist explanations are best seen as answering to different interests , and therefore as contributing , at least to some extent , to independent projects . |
| 17 | But the relevant changes are further defined by being unintended and at least to some extent beyond the control of the societies they affected , either because of their intrinsic character , or because of the scale on which they occurred . |
| 18 | Our experiment suggests that , at least to some extent , carbon grain-boundary films will reconnect under high pressures . |
| 19 | Charcoal will adsorb most poisons , at least to some extent — though laboratory studies suggest that lithium , iron , cyanide , and strong acids and alkalis are the exceptions . |
| 20 | Moreover , while fundamentalism can , at least to some extent , appeal to what remains of genuine custom and tradition or past practice as embodied in religious practice , nationalism in itself is either hostile to the real ways of the past , or arises on its ruins . |
| 21 | At least to some observers the action in the Baltic represented an attempt by hard-line party and military officials , organised in a shadowy ‘ Committee of National Salvation ’ , to seize power and overthrow the nationalist administrations . |
| 22 | The Politburo , meeting on 17 December , welcomed the agreement as ‘ historic ’ ; and Soviet public opinion , according at least to some rapidly-conducted opinion polls , appeared to take the same view . |
| 23 | Their expectation that this relationship would be based , at least to some extent , on mutual advantage is indicated in an assertion , made on 21 July 1960 , that : |
| 24 | You may well have to accommodate them , at least to some extent , if you are to progress further . |
| 25 | The distinction has to be considered at least to some extent because only by identifying what has been done in the past can one see how deficiencies remain to be corrected in the future research agenda . |
| 26 | It is a dull landscape here , because of the training walls that keep sea and coast — at least to some extent — apart , but navigation was not difficult . |
| 27 | Fixed-interest securities would be immune at least to some of the difficulties that might affect companies ' trading performance . |
| 28 | The more sceptical and critical attitude towards nationalism which appeared to develop in the postwar period , and the fresh attempts to create ( even within a limited area ) supranational organizations , or at the other end of the spectrum to revive local and regional communities , provided an opportunity to redirect the sense of belonging , at least to some extent , upon political units other than the nation state . |
| 29 | Most schools seemed to be satisfied that they were meeting the needs of pupils , at least to some extent ( see figure 2 ) . |
| 30 | The G M B's got a long record of joining forces with others which has proved to be successful , but if we 're gon na be honest , it 's always been recognized that we would be the predominant union and yes Apex members we should have been honest with you at the time of merger , because it 's quite clear you was gon na lose your identity to at least to some extent and we should have been honest about that . |