Example sentences of "a degree [prep] [noun] for [art] " in BNC.

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1 The offender had a degree of responsibility for the victim , there was evidence of planning and the victim , while not as young as some victims , was only 13 .
2 Readers attributed to Martyn a degree of responsibility for the content of the journal , and some sent their comments to him rather than to Oldenburg .
3 He had a degree of concern for the vanquished Germans , and respect for them as individuals , which taught me another valuable lesson , and which still makes his name in Wilhelmshaven one which is honoured rather than reviled .
4 When I first played through Rattle 's Daphnis , the levels were set with a degree of concern for the neighbours , I felt that here was an example of his penchant for pianissimos on the threshold of audibility getting the better of him .
5 As we saw , there are broadly two schools of Marxist thought — those which rely on an instrumental view of the state-economy relationship and those of a structuralist type , which allow for a degree of freedom for the state and discuss power in terms of hegemony and control .
6 The normal reaction of all parturient females is to seek a degree of isolation for a transient period .
7 Moreover , the economic outlook for the company hardly warranted no dividend payments , as Sir Humphrey made clear in his chairman 's statement last November : ‘ There is a degree of optimism for the 1991 year in the expectation that the negative effects of the economy may be offset and minimised by the advancements being implemented in many areas of our business ’ .
8 At each level in this hierarchy we find both a dependence on those subjects which lie below and also a claim to a degree of autonomy for the concepts which are specific to that level .
9 The distinction may not seem an essential one , but there is a difference : " strike-breaking " suggests a degree of capability for the work and willingness to do it which may have been possessed by the " rats " of " London and Liverpool " , 28 but was unlikely to have been displayed by the handful of girl apprentices actually engaged during the strike .
10 A degree of confirmation for the ‘ hypothesis of difference ’ between organizational types has been obtained , though with research instruments that seem blunt when compared with the complexity of the issues raised in the initial part of this paper , and with data that must await fuller statistical validation .
11 This would provide incentives to employees and a degree of continuity for the business .
12 A cultural change is in progress ; whereas deviant accounting practices had previously attracted muted adverse comment — even perhaps a degree of respect for the ingenuity sometimes shown — the standard demanded by the Panel has been seen to be exacting , requiring the spirit of the standards to be followed in addition to the detailed rules .
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