Example sentences of "[vb infin] some degree [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Armed with some or , very rarely , all of the above resources , presidents may achieve some degree of mastery over the American political system . |
| 2 | To hypothesize , it was as if the king of France held the earldom of Cornwall or Lancaster from the king of England , who could therefore exert some degree of control over the foreign policy and behaviour of the king of France . |
| 3 | The magazine commented that a narrow electoral victory by the LDP would entail some degree of compromise with major opposition parties and , in addition , the anti-war sentiment prevalent within the JSP meant that demands for further increases in the defence budget would not be viewed in a favourable light , especially expenditure concerning the acquisition of " future generation " weapons systems . |
| 4 | Patients with a minor degree of atlantoaxial subluxation or with subaxial subluxation need treatment only with a soft cervical collar — which provides symptomatic relief , acts as a reminder to patient and doctor , and may provide some degree of protection from trauma . |
| 5 | It was reported that Samater , the outgoing Prime Minister , was reappointed only after the failure of efforts to bring into the post someone from the Issak tribe , whose appointment could suggest some degree of reconciliation in the civil war . |
| 6 | The conflict of interests was certainly a significant factor in the south-east , where the land tax was relatively highly assessed and where the new monied men had made a noticeable intrusion into local economic life , though it could also possess some degree of reality in more remote parts , such as South Wales . |
| 7 | These situations and circumstances are not seen as operating as ‘ causes ’ , in a determinist sense , but as offering incentives or disincentives that will have some degree of probability of influencing the direction in which the choices are made . |
| 8 | Therefore , this region may confer some degree of specialization to the protein , in terms of cellular location and/or tissue specificity . |
| 9 | However , the uniformity of mucosal cell proliferative patterns in the various colonic segments that was discussed earlier would shed some degree of doubt on this possibility . |
| 10 | Many readers will find some degree of truth in all three of these views , and , as we comment later , there is no real test of their validity . |