Example sentences of "[det] degree [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 At the end of their first or second year , a limited number of students may transfer to this degree course from the BTEC HND in Computer Studies ( Code JN 1210 ) ( see page 165 ) , on the basis of academic performance and after completion of some additional work during the long vacation .
2 At the end of their first or second year , a limited number of students may transfer to this degree course from the BTEC HND in Computer Studies ( code JN 1210 ) ( see page 166 ) , on the basis of academic performance .
3 Students for this degree work on the same courses as those taking History of Art honours with , in the third year , a course in the Philosophy of Art specifically designed for them .
4 2 In psychology , generalisation refers to the process that occurs when one stimulus , which is to some degree equivalent to another , can substitute for the other in arousing a conditioned response ( behaviourist psychology ) .
5 Though all are feeding from the same source , and to some degree feed on whatever is most plentiful , competition is minimized by selective feeding ; Croxall and Lishman ( 1987 ) and Prince and Morgan ( 1987 ) summarize methods of feeding respectively among penguins and petrels in southern waters .
6 Most political philosophers — and I think most people-take the intermediate view that fairness and justice are to some degree independent of one another , so that fair institutions sometimes produce unjust decisions and unfair institutions just ones .
7 To some degree aspects of local distribution of the eighteenth century , poor relief of the nineteenth , or welfare benefits of the twentieth .
8 In the first case , with a dependent text , one has to allow for the exercise of schematic knowledge which will to some degree lead to the bypassing of language and the avoidance of inference .
9 It may well be the case , however , that to some degree fear of political change does inhibit civil servants , so that in order to ensure continuity they will only promote policies which they judge both major parties will accept .
10 , the large figures represent thousands of feet , the small ones hundreds of feet , and taken together they give the height above sea level of the highest known feature ( including terrain and obstacles ) in the quadrangle bounded by half degree lines of latitude and longitude
11 The Seychelles lie in the middle of the Indian Ocean , just a few degrees south of the equator .
12 Home Office researcher Simon Field studied 40 years of statistics and found that when the temperature rose a few degrees Celsius above normal :
13 While each university plans and validates its own degree programmes in the light of a general awareness of policies , constraints and demands , the CNAA sets out general principles for first degree courses under its aegis .
14 The winters there are long , hard and cruel ; two-thirds of the entire territory are grounded on ‘ permafrost ’ — permanently frozen earth , in many areas over one kilometre deep ; eastern Siberia contains the northern hemisphere 's ‘ pole of cold ’ , at Oimyakon , several degrees south of the Arctic Circle where temperatures in this inhabited settlement sometimes sink to — 70°C ; major rivers , seas and ports are frozen solid for most of the year , and growing conditions are so disadvantageous as to create one of the most fragile ecological systems in the world .
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