Example sentences of "[prep] some degree [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However the movement for some degree of independence , some autonomy , was not confined to substantial towns . |
| 2 | Gradually , however , if all goes well , the bond should loosen and each become aware of their different needs and strive for some degree of independence . |
| 3 | But probably more important than works of social research or political theory in spreading belief in the need for some degree of state action , was both concern about the condition of the economy and the impact of the Boer War of 1899–1902 . |
| 4 | There was also pressure for some degree of autonomy from minorities in Kurdestan , Azerbaijan and Baluchistan , from Turcomans in Khorasan and from Arabic-speakers in Khuzestan . |
| 5 | Political and economic considerations regarding England seem to be an important part of Amanda 's critique , but surely our heritage , culture and lifestyle should give every English person cause for some degree of contentment , and to praise God that we have what we have . |
| 6 | Despite some degree of battlefield success at Dezful — in the course of which Iraq captured a number of British-made Chieftain tanks which it put on display before foreign journalists at al-Amarah in the central sector just as Iraq 's own armour , mainly Russian in origin , was gathering for further fighting at Ahwaz — Dezful did not fall either and the Iranians were far from having been routed . |
| 7 | Most surgical patients , regardless of the extent of their operation , are at risk of some degree of problem with breathing . |
| 8 | said : ‘ It appears to me that , when the plaintiffs demanded payment of their debt , and in consequence of that application the defendant agreed to give certain security , although there was no promise on the part of the plaintiffs to abstain for any certain time from suing for the debt , the effect was , that the plaintiffs did in effect give , and the defendant received , the benefit of some degree of forbearance ; not indeed , for any definite time but , at all events , some extent of forbearance . ’ |
| 9 | Most decisions in industry are taken in conditions of some degree of uncertainty . |
| 10 | Most decisions in industry are taken in conditions of some degree of uncertainty . |
| 11 | Once the reality of some degree of uncompetitiveness in markets is acknowledged the consumer 's sovereign status is inevitably diminished . |
| 12 | Although Butterflyfish are quite hardy when acclimatized , their conditions must be maintained with some degree of consistency . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | On the other hand , a critic who represents object texts in a mode akin to free indirect speech operates under an obligation to represent with some degree of fidelity the texts that he or she purports to ventriloquise . |
| 15 | It must have been with some degree of cautiousness and a heightened sense of responsibility that Gould once more stocked up on shot , caps , and powder on his way back through Launceston for the journey home . |
| 16 | Change , however welcome , is usually associated with some degree of stress . |
| 17 | Both show life in a mining town with some degree of realism and Reed 's picture , about a community in which the miners are browbeaten into working a coal seam which the proprietor knows to be dangerous , links itself to the documentarist sensibility with an opening voiceover referring to those ‘ simple working people who take heroism for granted as part of their daily lives ’ , and a concluding epilogue that calls for the world to be ‘ purged of its old greeds . ’ |
| 18 | How are we to judge from an animal 's overt behaviour whether we are observing a well-oiled machine or a creature with some degree of intelligence and creativity ? |
| 19 | I was talking to a civil servant in the Ministry of erm Energy the other day , and he said that he reckoned out of several hundred people working there there were about fifteen people who had a scientific or engineering background , and therefore were able to talk with some degree of expertise perhaps and certainly knowledge about the matters that they were discussing . |
| 20 | It would seem that we now have four hundred thousand pounds available that was n't apparent before , and that 's come from the Department of the Environment , and that is enough for me to say well , we 've got something out of it , it was n't a fiasco or a waste of time and now I can rejoin the Conservative group with some degree of credibility . |
| 21 | This story forms a fairly complete myth of early origin , but in the New Kingdom texts it is followed by various additions , overlaid with some degree of satire , which explain how certain things happened . |
| 22 | In addition , our use of our mother tongue is often so automatic and habitual , and so much a part of our individual and social identity , that help is needed to stand back and reflect on aspects of language with some degree of objectivity . |
| 23 | What we found was an exterior like an art shop in SoHo , all bruised purples and painterly red , and inside , un unpromising galley space made rich and stylish and finished , with some degree of panache , with a Mark Rothko effect decorating the end wall . |
| 24 | The Court 's use in the Expenses case of the internal management rule provides third parties with some degree of protection against a representative or organ of an organisation acting beyond its powers . |
| 25 | I asked in surprise — and with some degree of shock . |
| 26 | The notion of theory is itself relative , implying a statement with some degree of generality and some taxonomic , explanatory or predictive power . |
| 27 | Our particular role may be to take over consciously and with some degree of awareness that which was formerly done on a more instinctive level . |
| 28 | However , alterations were more often than not effected with some degree of sympathy for the existing fabric and atmosphere . |
| 29 | Since Gift Aids applies to a single gifts it can be a very useful means of making a charitable gift towards the end of the tax year when your taxable income for the year can be estimated with some degree of precision . |
| 30 | 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 . |