Example sentences of "degree of [noun] from [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But even if this is your situation it is important to establish some degree of self-sufficiency from the outset to help you become stronger and happier eventually . |
| 2 | As a consequence , the level of reliability of the directors ' statement and the degree of assurance from the auditors is high . |
| 3 | In 1890 he received the honorary degree of MD from the University of St Louis . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Soviet specialists identify the main political force within the region as nationalism and , just as in the 1960s countries were judged by their policy position regarding Cuba , the touchstone now is their degree of independence from the United States . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Within the burrow , the spadefoot achieves a high degree of protection from the relentless heat of the desert sand above . |
| 10 | Air is one of the best of all insulators against heat loss when not allowed to circulate , so , between them , these two layers provide a high degree of protection from the biting cold . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | In their ensemble , these practices and privileges afford the defence sector a considerable degree of protection from the vagaries of the economic system . |
| 13 | 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 : |
| 14 | These priorities are also reflected in the prescriptions for teacher education laid down with an increasing degree of firmness from the centre . |
| 15 | If the birds or Australia had not received that degree of attention from the scientific ornithologist which their interest demanded ’ , he wrote in his preface to Mammals of Australia , ‘ I can assert , without fear of contradiction , that its highly curious and interesting Mammals have been still less investigated . |
| 16 | These boys , when tested , were found to have an average IQ of 80 , thus showing a significant degree of recovery from the level reached at the end of the first year . |
| 17 | Maintaining this configuration requires that the state apparatus should operate with a considerable degree of autonomy from the dominant class fraction , and that the leaders who assemble and co-ordinate the ruling ‘ power bloc ’ should appear on the political stage as independent actors . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Wishram , an American Indian language , makes no fewer than four distinctions in reference to past events alone , each distinction expressing a certain degree of remoteness from the moment of speaking . |
| 20 | The diagnosis may be made with a high degree of accuracy from the clinical appearance of the lesions , and this can be confirmed by growing the virus in the laboratory on developing hens ' eggs . |
| 21 | He was a member of the Institution of Civil Engineers from 1866 and in 1868 received the honorary degree of M.Eng. from the University of Dublin . |
| 22 | Nationally , the company has been attempting to win a higher degree of commitment from the workforce . |
| 23 | In 1888 she was the first woman in Britain to earn the degree of LLB from the University of London . |
| 24 | In practice the planning style will fall between these two extremes , with the degree of input from the planning department compared with the business units varying from company to company . |
| 25 | Notwithstanding the significance of Japanese ambitions in continental Asia in the modern period , for many centuries Japan managed to maintain a substantial degree of isolation from the mainland . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Our daily programme at the day care centres is geared to meet the needs of people suffering from all degrees of dementia from the moderate to the severe . |
| 28 | Managing a curriculum has at least three interlocking components : ( a ) a formal statement ( more or less detailed or precise ) ; ( b ) those who deliver ( teachers ) , and who enjoy more or less autonomy , responsibility , public confidence , etc ; ( c ) a hierarchy which monitors and supervises delivery , carries varying degrees of ‘ clout ’ vis-à-vis teachers , and operates at varying degrees of distance from the classroom . |
| 29 | The book adds a distinctive , more cheerful gloss to the boyhood and early youth of a precocious young writer who later , on his own testimony , suffered bouts of depression of different degrees of intensity from the age of sixteen onwards . |