Example sentences of "degree of [noun sg] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Davies v. Sumner is the leading authority on the meaning of the expression ‘ in the course of a business ’ and has been followed in a case under the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977 , R. & B. Customs Brokers v. United Dominion Trust , where it was held that a business 's buying of two or three cars over a period of five years was an insufficient degree of regularity for the latest such purchase to be regarded as made in the course of the business ( see paragraph 10–18 above . ) |
| 2 | He had a degree of concern for the vanquished Germans , and respect for them as individuals , which taught me another valuable lesson , and which still makes his name in Wilhelmshaven one which is honoured rather than reviled . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It is pleasing that there is a large degree of support for the Southern fire station as I said it was music to my ears . |
| 5 | Meanwhile the degree of support for the Communist Refoundation Party ( PRC ) , which secured 5.6 per cent of the vote , suggested that in spite of events in eastern Europe loyalty to Communist theory persisted . |
| 6 | However , alterations were more often than not effected with some degree of sympathy for the existing fabric and atmosphere . |
| 7 | In his own words he was seeking to get immigration control on a basis where it was firm but where it was administered with some degree of compassion for the individual case ’ . |
| 8 | Moreover , the economic outlook for the company hardly warranted no dividend payments , as Sir Humphrey made clear in his chairman 's statement last November : ‘ There is a degree of optimism for the 1991 year in the expectation that the negative effects of the economy may be offset and minimised by the advancements being implemented in many areas of our business ’ . |
| 9 | If we can generate the representation of this complete set of degrees of freedom for the isolated atoms , and then subtract the representation of the external motions , we would obtain the representation Γ vib of the whole set of molecular vibrations . |