Example sentences of "degree of [noun] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 We should also note that it is based on certain assumptions , for example it is assumed that those who have some reason to form a pressure group will , in an open society , do so , and that the degree of governmental response will depend on the degree of pressure the group is able to exert , and that this is directly related to the group 's importance to the community .
2 It was recognized that a work of literature might employ , to advance its serious purpose , a style which resembled , or had the same effect as , the pornographer 's : here the jury was to be assisted to draw the line by experts who would offer judgments as to the degree of importance the article represented in its particular discipline .
3 To obtain a greater degree of permanence the time symbols of oral speech had to be converted into the space symbols of written speech .
4 Such approaches have been applied to cursive words of English ( Frishkopf and Harmon 1961 ; Harmon , 1962b ; Earnest , 1962 ; Farag , 1979 ; Brown and Ganapathy , 1980 ) , but to achieve any degree of accuracy the vocabulary which can be recognised is very small .
5 In contrast , data from life insurance applicants suggested that for comparable degrees of hypertension the impact on mortality was greater in diabetics , and particularly marked in those aged less than 40 years ( Goodkin , 1975 ) .
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