Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] to some [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But of course to some degree you 've got to decide what you mean by break even in the sense that er how do you actually I mean that |
| 2 | Now , of course to some extent the ego gets its sense of reality from the senses , from its direct observation of the world , but not entirely , and the reason for this , Freud thought , was that as children we learned that reality through direct experience is very important , but also through teaching and education from our parents and as a result parental authority represents the demands of reality . |
| 3 | This is to help ensure nutritional balance in your diet and , in particular , to supply calcium , because dietary fibre can hinder the absorption of calcium to some degree . |
| 4 | The Conservative party was elected in 1979 on a promise to reduce the overall level of taxation and , in addition , to shift the burden of tax to some extent from income ( direct tax ) to expenditure ( indirect tax ) . |
| 5 | So , I think most analysts now think that the , the concatenation of circumstances which produces a person 's superego is so complex , and there are so many factors interacting , probably along with any genetic factors , there probably is a heritable basis of guilt to some extent , but the , you ca n't say in a very simple way that a person 's childhood socialization will determine every aspect of the superego . |
| 6 | If patients entering an open-ended trial in order of referral to some clinic were to be assigned to D or P by , for example , tossing a coin , the numbers in the two groups could become unsatisfactorily discrepant . |
| 7 | Now that you have read a little about the method why not get out the extension rails and apply these pieces of information to some lace making ? |
| 8 | As Curran has forcefully shown , advertising also plays a part in shaping a newspaper and so the needs of advertising to some extent determine the nature of the newspaper . |
| 9 | Are you anybody Dor I 've got erm Doris here is is there anybody has n't asked I wan na sort of brig to some conclusion because people are getting restless Doris . |
| 10 | In a world in which outward conformity with the religion of the establishment was hard to distinguish from real commitment , the call to authentic Christianity often took the form of conversion to some form of the ascetic life . |
| 11 | Taking the so-called lower levels of language to some extent for granted , we proceeded from the most detailed features of discourse towards the most general . |
| 12 | Fairclough seemed to be playing in front of defence and behind midfield to some extent . |
| 13 | most planation surfaces are or have been graded with respect to some base elevation , usually sea level , but often to an endorheic basin or to a climatic control above sea level ; |
| 14 | While these descriptions of the semantic value of to + infinitive are too specific to be adequate characterizations of the potential meanings involved here ( in fact they correspond to actual meanings of the construction in particular contexts ) , they are nevertheless faithful reflections of the potential meaning of to and of the fact that the latter always evokes the bare infinitive 's event as an after-position with respect to some position before its realization . |
| 15 | In this context , the word ‘ conception ’ refers to an idea that is novel with respect to some frame of reference ( individual , departmental , organizational , or all accumulated knowledge ) ; the word ‘ invention ’ applies to any novel idea that is transformed into reality ; and the word ‘ exploitation ’ refers to getting the most out of an invention . |
| 16 | It has been seen that the to preceding the infinitive is the sign that the event expressed by means of the infinitive is represented as posteriorized in time with respect to some point of reference . |
| 17 | They do not help in proving a program correct with respect to some specification expressed in terms of a more abstract description of its intended behaviour . |
| 18 | Natural philosophy , or that part of it which is physics , will already have dealt with man to some extent , in considering the phenomenon of sense-perception . |
| 19 | He wo n't say anything if he does n't want to — ‘ That 's life , ’ he will shrug , in response to some question that you have built like a house of cards — but if he wants to , he 'll say anything . |
| 20 | Organisational change may be the result of these kinds of issue rather than in response to some logic of organisational design . |
| 21 | This reflects the collaborative nature of work in these areas , and like the situation described earlier with regard to the group projects in Redbrook Secondary , this nearly always happens in response to some form of shared performance , as in the following description of the process in the music department at the Pope John Paul Comprehensive : |
| 22 | ‘ Perhaps it had tried to reveal itself in response to some wish or command that was felt in the room ’ , thinks Frodo , and he is clearly right . |
| 23 | The social worker whose aim is to effect change in response to some cry for help , will try to ensure that the change occurs in such a way that it is manageable for the system as a whole . |
| 24 | A drop in the tax charge from 37 p.c. to 33½ p.c. , thanks in part to some windfall factors , helped earnings too . |
| 25 | It is estimated that approximately 500,000 adults in Great Britain suffer from agoraphobia to some extent . |
| 26 | That has been reflected among Conservatives in Parliament to some extent . |
| 27 | To demonstrate this the project will construct and characterise the knowledge base of a number of firms , to describe the range of ways in which firms identify short comings in respect to some aspect of their knowledge resources and to analyse how they respond to acquire new external knowledge . |
| 28 | On the way , in answer to some question about his education , Palance replies by sweeping off his broad-brimmed black hat . |
| 29 | ‘ Novice ’ teachers are regarded as different from ‘ expert ’ ones only in terms of their abilities to handle transmission-type skills — for instance , in selecting examples , illustrations and analogies that will best ‘ tell the story ’ in relation to some part of the curriculum . |
| 30 | Neutrality is neutrality between parties in relation to some issue regarding which the success of one sets the other back . |