Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [am/are] [prep] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | Specific applications of multimedia in business and professional environments are to some extent determined by commercial ingenuity . |
| 2 | This is because social arrangements are to some extent arbitrary ways of organising human life — there is an apparently endless range of variations in social rules , ideas and conventions . |
| 3 | Slowish tempos are to some degree unavoidable , because of the textural detail in Mozart 's score ; and the conductor can not altogether be blamed for the ways in which the music is softened . |
| 4 | Typically such constitutions are to some degree entrenched , that is , the constitutional rules are more difficult to change than ordinary laws , perhaps requiring approval by referendum ( Eire ) or special majority ( West Germany ) . |
| 5 | These groups are to some extent welcome to the authorities , as they provide obvious and organized bodies with which negotiations and discussions can be held . |
| 6 | These institutions are among some 200 ‘ unverified and lost ’ , and so excluded from the 11th edition of the Directory of British Associations , just out . |
| 7 | These three aspects are to some extent interrelated in that , for example , at higher temperatures water quality may deteriorate more rapidly than at low temperatures and under conditions of crowding , the deterioration of water quality will also be accelerated . |
| 8 | The system is complicated and credited contributions are for some purposes not as good as paid contributions . |
| 9 | These ideas are in some ways similar to one of the psychoanalytical theories of schizophrenia , popular in the 1960s , Bateson 's ‘ doublebind ’ hypothesis . |
| 10 | It is simply that the most plausible stories now available about that evolution , including its very recent date and also certain considerations about the physical characteristics of the species , suggests that human beings are to some degree a mess , and that the rapid and immense development of symbolic and cultural capacities has left man as a being for which no form of life is likely to prove entirely satisfactory , either individually or socially . |
| 11 | Some of them are rather like cave paintings are n't they and have they 've got this from my a sort of tedious association of the drawings and pictures and er Catherine 's it seems to be suggesting that animals were around , animals and other creatures were around a long time before human beings and that human beings are in some ways intruders therefore in their in their world . |
| 12 | All heroes are in some measure anti-heroes , after all , if the term means that they are opposed to some antiquated sense of heroism that their creators are eager to question or discredit . |
| 13 | This does not mean however that mental processes are in some way divorced from the physical world , nor does it mean that they should be excluded from the subject matter of natural science . |
| 14 | Many bureaus are to some extent in the position of monopsony . |
| 15 | The second and very obvious point that needs to be stated is that if the justices , having fulfilled their duty to make independent investigation of the terms proposed by consent , reach the initial conclusion that those terms are in some respect deficient then before imposing other terms on the parties they must indicate the nature of their departure and give all the parties a fair opportunity to make submissions on their tentative conclusion . |
| 16 | But modern industrial societies are in some respects in a worse position than the hunter-gatherer societies to which such relatively defective ego and superego development is normal , because they lack any institutional means of correcting the situation at puberty . |
| 17 | Finally , Bajazeth offers us perhaps the most complete view of Tamburlaine because these two men are in some ways very similar , and so bring out the true side of Tamburlaine 's character . |
| 18 | However , the biological argument that women are naturally averse to crime and that female criminals are in some way maladjusted has never been fully abandoned . |
| 19 | All new starts are in some sense experimental , a revived realism not least ; and it is after all mildly experimental , in a way , to return to a half-deserted tradition forged in England two hundred years before in the age of the Hanoverians . |
| 20 | Similarly , while it is true that the military do play a more crucial role than in the past , it is one thing to say this and another to argue that the heads of the four services are in some manner an elite or share similar goals . |
| 21 | And because those two incidents are in some way related to the death of Heather 's sister in June of last year . ’ |
| 22 | Most researchers are at some stage forced up against the inadequacy of the social class classification . |
| 23 | In other words , both parties are to some extent ‘ locked into ’ a transaction to which highly specific assets have been assigned . |
| 24 | The subsequent outcomes are of some significance in determining further educational chances and career opportunities . |