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

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1 Side by side with these come decisions regarding curriculum control , in particular those related to the degree of flexibility to be permitted and encouraged in relation to choice of language , of content and of evaluation .
2 Moreover , there are difficulties in knowing how to relate different sorts of probabilities such as those which concern the degree of credit to be given to a judgement and those which are of a statistical nature .
3 The main requirement is for each degree of differentiation to be clearly demarcated from others in the eyes of buyers and for each firm to be the lowest-cost producer within each category .
4 The basic idea can be captured in minutes and the total concept fully realised in , at most , a couple of hours , which is a lot faster than it takes for the same degree of finish to be achieved in any other medium .
5 The populist element in the party 's thinking remained , but focused more on the party conference than on the degree of scope to be given to the House of Commons or to local government .
6 Storage heights of 50 m appears to be a distinct possibility , racked rather than stacked goods to be the general trend and an increasing degree of automation to be likely .
7 In Shah 's case Lord Scarman said , ‘ All that is necessary is that the purpose of living where one does [ eg , for education , employment , health , family or merely love of the place ] has a sufficient degree of continuity to be properly described as settled ’ .
8 There is a general consensus that the disease is ‘ underdiagnosed rather than truly rare ’ as the lesion may be very discrete and needs a high degree of suspicion to be detected .
9 The Court of Appeal in finding against merchantability laid emphasis upon the reasonableness of the degree of fitness to be expected .
10 Temple disagreed with Lugard over almost everything , but above all over the degree of authority to be exercised from the centre .
11 We could specify in which hand the draw-sheet is to be held , which arm the nurse is to use to support the patient , the degree of tension to be applied to the draw-sheet to make it taut and smooth .
12 There is often political pressure on a company from the country in which it operates to allow a greater degree of control to be exercised by the country concerned .
13 One finds a sharp differentiation between God and nature , between different types of knowledge and the degrees of probability to be accorded them .
14 Once established downwind , a circuit speed of eighty knots allowed thirty degrees of flap to be selected while the normal litany was completed .
15 Viewed now , nearly half a century later , these studies — attractive though they are — seem remarkably dated , for children 's rate of development has increased over the years and we are now more aware of the variety of kinds and degrees of development to be found among the individual boys and girls in one age group .
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