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

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1 Indeed for those insiders living in Cheater 's metaphorical front room — such as in the police — the need to obscure and seek a degree of anonymity from the analytic gaze can be described as a major principle in the preservation of power , ranking highly in the structures of significance .
2 The introduction of compulsory , competitive tendering through the Local Government Planning and Land Act 1980 and the Local Government Act 1988 means that direct service organisations may see themselves as agencies with a degree of independence from the actual client , for example , the social service department requiring the cleaning office buildings .
3 The Bob Marley Museum might be a skank down memory lane , but the reggae tourist — with a degree of protection from the rude-boys — can easily absorb the current ragga vibe .
4 Life in a tenement property was often very hard , although , as the following description from a black woman growing up in London during the 1950s and 1960s suggests , it frequently provided a degree of protection from the wider racist society :
5 The two further major reservations that must be made are first that the service is moulded chiefly by the doctrine of ministerial responsibility with all that flows from it — anonymity , one collective viewpoint , secrecy and a degree of isolation from the rest of the community .
6 Structuralist Marxist writers , taking their lead from Antonio Gramsci , an Italian Marxist , have doubted this and have contended that the state may have a degree of autonomy from the interests of the ruling class .
7 Son Sen , 59 , has a degree in philosophy from the Sorbonne .
8 He was academically specific and efficient , a thin ascetic man with a degree in jurisprudence from the Hebrew University and offices in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem .
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