Example sentences of "[is] [adv] to [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Beccaria 's appearance of humanity is perhaps to some extent due to the fact that , unlike Bentham , he often glossed over the darker implications of his arguments . |
| 2 | The IMF identifies fifteen heavily indebted countries including Brazil , Argentina , Chile , and Yugoslavia — most of them are in South and Central America — and their indebtedness is largely to private sector banks through the Euro-currency markets . |
| 3 | When farmers and farm workers refer to the ‘ loss of community ’ in their village it is usually to this kind of change that they are implicitly referring , for there are bound to be changing patterns of sociability developing in the village to which they are unaccustomed or from which they feel excluded . |
| 4 | When the agricultural population complains of a loss of community in the English village it is usually to this loss of an enclosed , socially self-sufficient occupational community that they refer . |
| 5 | Secondly , the model implies that curriculum planning is always to some extent a contingent matter , in which there will be few across-the-board answers . |
| 6 | However , the situation is always to some extent fluid , and the dimensions of the disciplinary space may change , expanding here or contracting there , sometimes under pressure from a contiguous discipline . |
| 7 | It is probable that deliberate equivocation in respect of the intended sense of word forms is always to some extent odd . |
| 8 | Therefore , whereas the market participation of asset owners is always to some extent protected ( by the peculiar qualities of the assets possessed ) , the market activity of the entrepreneur is never protected in any way . |
| 9 | The placement of tonic stress is still to some extent an unsolved mystery ; it is clear , though , that it is at least partly determined by the larger context ( linguistic and non-linguistic ) in which the tone-unit occurs . |
| 10 | That is still to some extent , erm though less true , I daresay , than it once was , but the mystique , I think , survives , does it not , Anne will tell us , in Whitehall , that these people bring erm who , who are essentially amateurs in matters of political science , sociology , international relations and diplomacy , bring a gentleman amateur 's omnicompetent wisdom . |
| 11 | There can be no doubt , however , that there is more to latent inhibition than this because the effect is routinely observed both when the stimulus evokes no very marked UR ( e.g. Carlton and Vogel 1967 ; Domjan and Siegel 1971 ) and also when the CR required is quite different from the UR . |
| 12 | But there is more to successful management than just picking the team or being a gifted coach , just ask Ray Harford or Mel Machin , respectively sacked by Luton and Manchester City because their public image was n't considered good enough . |
| 13 | There is more to contemporary racism than the violence they perpetrate . |
| 14 | There is more to effective information retrieval than indexing , though this is certainly an essential component of the process . |
| 15 | There is more to this speech , but this seems a good place to stop for a short and effective audition . |
| 16 | In print this wo n't look too good over breakfast , but I have to say there is more to this chapter of our being then we know . |
| 17 | Karajan the hard-working apprentice conductor , swabbing down the stage in Ulm or moving the instruments to the rehearsal hall in a wheelbarrow , is more to English taste . |
| 18 | Other specialist courses are run by The Avenue Riding Centre , Malvern , Worcestershire ( Tel : 0684 310731 ) who show there 's more to Western style riding than meets the eye , and Red House Stables ( Tel : 0629 733583 ) for driving , of which a three day introductory offer is the most popular . |
| 19 | Five decades of work by the Italian genius prove that there 's more to fantastic footwear than Red Or Dead ( see left ) . |
| 20 | And as if one needed reminding that there 's more to this year 's contest than Karaoke , four of the 11 acts competing were to provide their own original accompaniment . |
| 21 | Bizarrely , it 's a pork butcher 's shop , and there 's more to this business than a bacon slicer and a few trays of pies . |
| 22 | There was another track after ‘ Happy Hour ’ that we could have put out that probably would have done just as well , but instead we went for a ballad , ‘ Think For A Minute ’ , to make people think , ‘ Jesus , there 's more to this group than I 'd thought ’ . |
| 23 | Cranston roared ‘ There 's more to this house than sitting on your arse and stuffing your mouth with every bit of food you can lay your sticky little fingers on ! ’ |
| 24 | Then hold the receiver in the hole to determine if your ferret is slightly to one side or the other . |
| 25 | The traditional wood for coffins is elm , being cross-grained and therefore less prone to splitting ; it is also to some extent water-resistant . |
| 26 | The counsellor is also to some extent directing the course of the discussions when making a selection from the many possible areas of interest . |
| 27 | While professional discretion and autonomy is also to some extent an issue in this service , implementation is not complicated by either a multi-tiered structure like that of the health service , or by powerful institutions like the schools and colleges . |
| 28 | Every analysis is also to some extent an interpretation ; so if for example you choose to summarise a narrative , you will , by selection and emphasis , be interpreting what the most important incidents and characters are . |
| 29 | 10 minutes is really to little time to make an impact . |
| 30 | So what is there to linguistic meaning , over and above mere causation ? |