Example sentences of "degree of [noun sg] which [modal v] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The task of the language teacher is a difficult one : to facilitate a degree of socialization which will enable learners to send and receive text as discourse , while also guarding their right to be different and to enrich others through that difference , bringing to the language they are learning the wealth of their own individuality and culture . |
| 2 | The new government set out in 1649 to establish its position with a degree of success which must have surprised everyone who knew about its problems and had not realized the great energy that religious faith gave to its leaders . |
| 3 | Sometimes our resistance to the idea of dependence leads us to a degree of enthusiasm which can impair our judgement about need . |
| 4 | The nature and degree of insanity which will afford a defence to a criminal charge has from time to time been a matter of considerable discussion . |
| 5 | The degree of conflict which may occur depends largely on the way in which departmental or functional objectives have been drawn up , and whether suitable conflict-resolution mechanisms exist ( eg regular meetings between common interest groups , inter-departmental committees etc ) . |
| 6 | The instances and their relations are subject to a degree of variation which would make it anachronistic even to posit a universal phenomenon called ‘ the state ’ . |
| 7 | The dating of an artefact to the span of a single generation would be to a degree of accuracy which would provide a powerful tool for the study of Anglo-Saxon society . |
| 8 | In the negotiations in which the King now attempted to play off Parliament , Army and Scots against each other , he acted with a degree of duplicity which might have been justified by success ; it was disastrous , however , when his intercepted correspondence revealed the irreconcilable offers which he had made and his intention to go back on his agreements . |
| 9 | To sum up this section , we can say that the first phrase of a theme may be followed by a second phrase to make a complete sentence , either through exact repetition , or by various degrees of change which can extend to the introduction of completely new material . |