I demur to a certain extent to amount of sterility and structural dissimilarity necessarily going together, except indirectly and by no means strictly.
Natural Selection), and he says a publisher in Stuttgart is willing to publish a translation, and that he, Bronn, will to a certain extent superintend.
I do hope it may get extensively heard of and circulated; but to a certain extent this, I think, always depends on chance.
Uncontrollable circumstances (a long history, with which it was impossible to acquaint her at present) operated to a certain extent as a drag upon his wishes.
Edward was impatient, and to a certain extent still a countryman, who had not, after the manner of city men, subdued the natural impulse to speak out the ruling thought without preface.
I guessed what this further suspicion was, and resolved to enlighten her to a certain extent, and so secure her assistance.
For these species, from belonging to distinct families, would have differed to a certain extent, and in accordance with the principle that the nature of each variation depends on two factors, viz.
In this way, to a certain extent, the reproduction of unfit elements in society might be lessened, and the spread of degeneracy checked.
Now, both of these statements are also true to a certain extent as to human society in general.
His companions were deferential to a certain extent, but they, too, exhibited an unusual demeanour.
Was not my coming hither due to a certain extent to a wish for the preservation of bird-life?
Six miles separate these headlands, but the channel between Tam o' Shanter and Dunk Island is little more than 2 1/2 miles, so that the pigeons here become concentrated to a certain extent.
Crass's work as colourman was simplified, to a certain extent, by the great number of specially prepared paints and distempers in all colours, supplied by the manufacturers ready for use.
We could help ourselves to a certain extent if we would stand by each other.
The day had now to a certain extent cleared up, and the lake was occasionally gilded by beams of bright sunshine.
Owen Glendower’s hill or mount at Sycharth, unlike the one bearing his name on the banks of the Dee, is not an artificial hill, but the work of nature, save and except that to a certain extent it has been modified by the hand of man.
My mind reverted to a long past period of my life, when I was to a certain extent fixed up with commercial travellers, and had plenty of opportunities of observing their habits, and the terms employed by them in conversation.
The Confederation itself authorizes a direct tax, to a certain extent, on the post office.
Another admits that it ought to be a government over individuals to a certain extent, but by no means to the extent proposed.
It cannot be denied that Christianity itself has felt, to a certain extent, the influence which social and political conditions exercise on religious opinions.
The spectator of a dramatic piece is, to a certain extent, taken by surprise by the impression it conveys.
What I have here remarked of individuals is, to a certain extent, applicable to nations.
Up to this time it would seem that Flamsteed had been engaged, to a certain extent, in the business carried on by his father.
Well, yes, perhaps James did plant them, to a certain extent.
They were for him simply guardians of a treasure he very much coveted, and yet they were to a certain extent ennobled in his mind as the authors of the being he worshiped.
The revelation in the last will of Henderson's change of mind towards her was mortifying to a certain extent.
We forget that the creation of the novel should be, to a certain extent, a synthetic process, and impart to human actions that ideal quality which we demand in painting.
A duet to be agreeable must be to a certain extent confidential, and the dinner-table duet admits of little except generalities, and generalities between two have their limits of entertainment.
To a certain extent we can explain to you its technical character, and give you a right idea of it as a science.
These were the words of a man who was educated to a certain extent, and very well read.
The strange behaviour of the Indian crows explains, to a certain extent, this superstition.
The tribe have thought it necessary to decrease their power to a certain extent by instituting a kind of council in every village.
A merchant in a moth-eaten bowler started warbling to a certain extentwith me.
The touch of gloom was contributed by his brother Bob to a certain extent, and by his father more noticeably.
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