Example sentences of "degree [prep] [noun] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The inevitably open texture of such a document leaves a great degree of discretion in the hands of the judiciary . |
| 2 | The degree of modification of the bones in both cases can be described as minimal , in common with other barn owl pellet accumulations , and there were no modifications from weathering . |
| 3 | The degree of self-consciousness among the weavers is notable . |
| 4 | This stage is marked by the sharing of honest communications and the development of a degree of trust among the members . |
| 5 | As a consequence , the level of reliability of the directors ' statement and the degree of assurance from the auditors is high . |
| 6 | He kept a close watch on friends he had left behind in Middleton , especially Dave Fielding who was enjoying a fair degree of success with The Chameleons . |
| 7 | This is because there is a high degree of commonality in the processes being described : usage of a word contributes to the way in which it is defined in a dictionary , and a dictionary definition contributes to the way in which a word is actually used . |
| 8 | So although several of the VT2 binding sites in the gene 62 promoter show sequence similarity to the Vmw175 binding consensus , the degree of homology of the sites is insufficient to allow recognition of these gene 62 promoter sites by the comparatively specific Vmw175 protein . |
| 9 | This model , which echoes that used by Oliver MacDonagh to explain the growth in nineteenth century government , relies on a high degree of consonance in the wishes of lawyers and their clients , a not unreasonable assumption given the limited access to divorce in Stone 's period . |
| 10 | A further question is whether or not a less costly form of regulation could be devised that still allows the same degree of competition in the markets with the same level of investor protection . |
| 11 | Our knowledge of the world is organised into subjects which form a hierarchy , graded by the degree of complexity of the systems which they treat as basic . |
| 12 | If tonalities are not closely related the tonal conflict will be more evident according to the degree of disagreement between the scales . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The degree of involvement in the reviews has generally been high , nearly half the teachers feeling very involved , a further third fairly involved , and only 5 per cent feeling not involved at all . |
| 15 | The most extreme of these predator species are comparable with the breakage caused by the small mammalian carnivores ( Andrews & Evans , 1983 ) , with some degree of overlap with the carnivores like mongooses and genets that do least amount of damage . |
| 16 | Inevitably individual urban initiatives do not always fit solely within one or other grouping : there is a degree of overlap between the classifications . |
| 17 | This suggests that there is now a greater degree of overlap in the characteristics of people accommodated in different forms of care . |
| 18 | Climate was a decisive factor in establishing these differences as was the availability of building materials , the degree of culture of the peoples , their beliefs and needs . |
| 19 | In less extreme cases of unauthorised use by a bailee the question whether his act amounts to conversion probably depends upon the degree of departure from the terms of the bailment . |
| 20 | The immigration of African slaves may have been a factor , as might also a degree of interaction with the aborigines that was missing further north . |
| 21 | " We ourselves would not have used a comma in the example above because we think in that example there is a greater degree of interdependence between the parts of the sentence . |
| 22 | The debate has also failed to question the way that union education is organised , particularly where ‘ service organisations ’ with some degree of independence from the unions and from the state are concerned . |
| 23 | In the event that a company should fail , in spite of this scrutiny , policy-holders have some degree of protection under the Policy-holders ' Protection Act 1975 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | In their ensemble , these practices and privileges afford the defence sector a considerable degree of protection from the vagaries of the economic system . |
| 26 | Active tenants ' and residents ' committees in your block or area are a good sign : they give you a point of contact with neighbours and usually mean that your environment is afforded some degree of protection by the efforts of these people . |
| 27 | However , this is a narrow selection from press reporting of sex crime and runs the risk of perhaps exaggerating the degree of sensationalism in the papers . |
| 28 | The market-sector was more complex , since its fortunes depended both on the nature of the market , or in some cases of its mechanism of distribution , on the degree of specialisation of the producers , and on the social structure of agriculture . |
| 29 | ‘ Whatever the precise degree of knowledge of the defendants at any particular time , faced with a laden ship which , as they well knew , was about to leave port , the defendants must in my judgment be deemed to have known of the almost certain existence of contracts of carriage to which the shipowners were parties . |
| 30 | Administrators also reacted with less than a becoming degree of sympathy to the problems of neighbouring agricultural peoples whose population was outstripping their resources in land . |