Example sentences of "certain degree of [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The second point is that this agreement reflected a certain degree of complementarity between the Soviet and Cuban economies . |
| 2 | With the approach to independence , when the game at last was clearly lost , administrators began to permit themselves a certain degree of cynicism about the loyalty of the Masai . |
| 3 | The number of trusts has grown from 493 in 1980 to 1379 in 1989 , with many commentators predicting a certain degree of rationalisation in the 1990's , although there is no evidence of this as yet . |
| 4 | CAN NOT help feeling a certain degree of admiration for the Evangelical Christians who are , invariably , to be found lurking behind every accusation of satanic child abuse . |
| 5 | The joy and pain of love and separation — not to mention a certain degree of despair at the intractability of the world 's ills and follies — are a constant backdrop to any adult view of human existence ; to teenagers and Robert Smith both exhilaration and horror are perpetually fresh . |
| 6 | The very need to do this — for the second time in four years — testifies to a certain degree of insecurity within the minds of the Soviet leaders that their recent gains in terms of strategic power could easily be snatched from them . |
| 7 | Certainly , but there was a particular status to be gained by the family in employing so many ; it also gave a certain degree of importance to the corpse itself . |
| 8 | Candy 's reaction had afforded her a certain degree of comfort at the time , but now as she sat in the dressing-room , she was aware of a strange hollowness deep in the pit of her stomach . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | There appears to have been a certain degree of retrenchment after the initial enthusiasm , with overseas securities standing at around 45 per cent of the total at the end of 1988 . |
| 11 | A few weeks ago Roberta Smith of the New York Times wrote an article expressing a certain degree of ennui over the new decade 's proliferation of ‘ installation art ’ — but it does n't seem to have done much to stem the tide . |