Example sentences of "[verb] to a [adj] degree " in BNC.
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| 1 | The art of ‘ growing people ’ lies to a great degree in this stretching process . |
| 2 | Any substance , which can be cooled to a sufficient degree below its melting temperature without crystallizing , will form a glass . |
| 3 | The wholesale slaughter of these magnificent animals by poachers has been averted to a considerable degree since embargoes have been placed on the exportation of their skins and on products manufactured locally for the Indian tourist industry , such as briefcases , wallets , belts and handbags . |
| 4 | The ideology of the enterprise culture through society has penetrated to a considerable degree to the young who grew up under Thatcher — ‘ Thatcher 's children ’ . |
| 5 | So far , Esther Ward had manage to keep the scandal contained to a certain degree , but he wondered how much longer it could all be brushed under the carpet . |
| 6 | Noted as relevant to the Clapham accident were the factors that : Working practices were permitted to slip to dangerous standards and quality of supervision was permitted to slip to an equivalent degree ; quality of testing did not meet BR standards ; no proper system of training of installation and testing staff was in use , and there was no vetting of weekend staff to prevent excessive overtime ; and there was failure to communicate both up and down lines of management . |
| 7 | The evidence of three recent controlled studies indicates that clients with bulimia nervosa can benefit to a similar degree from treatments which can not be regarded as forms of Cognitive–Behaviour Therapy ( Fairburn and Cooper , 1989 ) . |
| 8 | But there 's still this stigma because we 're not married and I do n't wha , I do n't really know how to explain it but I feel that at times my daughter is being victimized to a certain degree because we 're not married . |
| 9 | In contemporary British society this link is accepted to a greater degree so far as the care of children and motherhood is concerned , though social attitudes still reveal some of the same ambivalence . |
| 10 | Fortunately for us all , those skills are possessed to a considerable degree by police officers of every rank . |
| 11 | " The European Council is convinced that harmonious development of the Union over the coming years depends to a considerable degree on the strict application to existing and future legislation of the principle of subsidiarity by all the institutions . " |
| 12 | With cereal-based foods , fibre value depends to a large degree on how much has been stripped away in the milling and refining processes . |
| 13 | This research would seem to show that successful performance of a wide variety of occupational tasks depends to a significant degree on a common core of cognitive skills . |
| 14 | Even so , PT Timah took many years to develop its own technical expertise and still depends to an important degree on technical assistance from multinationals , including Billiton . |
| 15 | Kendalians were described , a population of 8,000 as ‘ a frugal , industrious people , and many of them have risen to a considerable degree of opulence by their assiduous attention to business . ’ |
| 16 | The sharp decline in business activity severely reduced the volume of full-fare first-class ticket sales while the increase in unemployment and interest rates curtailed to a drastic degree levels of disposable income available for leisure purposes such as optional standard-class rail journeys . |
| 17 | Executive responsibility — as part of a team the solicitor has the opportunity to participate to a greater degree than an outside solicitor in the commercial decisions resulting from advice . |
| 18 | It would seem that in some respects the Programme , and indeed wider aspects of the Authority 's approach to primary education , were centralized to an excessive degree and that this generated reactions from heads and teachers which were both powerful and counterproductive . |
| 19 | In the line outs , so well did the Irish vary their throws that England 's much greater height advantage was nullified to a large degree through the efforts of Johns and Galwey , with the former having his best ever match in the Irish jersey . |
| 20 | This limits , or complicates to a high degree , the explanatory force of a psychoanalytic discourse whose terms are founded on an Oedipal moment of lack , castration and desire . |
| 21 | The basic salaries paid to executives relocated abroad depend to a certain degree on which countries are involved . |
| 22 | Although the basic rules are always applied , the figures that are eventually arrived at depend to a considerable degree on the rule-of-thumb approach adopted by the judiciary . |
| 23 | The extreme nature of the damage seen in the diurnal raptors is matched to a considerable degree in some of the owls , and both approach the degree of damage done by mammalian carnivores ( Fig. 3.4 ) , which have the added advantage of crushing teeth by which they break up their prey before ingestion ( Andrews & Evans , 1983 ) . |
| 24 | They exhibit to an exaggerated degree that intolerance and sense of unease we all show when faced with information or experience which we can not readily assimilate and ‘ make sense of ’ ( as we say ) by fitting it into our existing knowledge and categories . |
| 25 | The fact of the matter is , as far as the erm and I accept to a certain degree what Jack has just said , that the power for schools lies with the Governors , and it lies with the Governors because the Conservative Government has enacted legislation to allow that to happen . |
| 26 | Studentships are offered for postgraduate study within the field of Humanities at universities and certain other institutions of higher education ; they are available for certain courses of study and research leading to a higher degree , and for certain certificate or diploma courses not covered by the bursary scheme . |
| 27 | For example a studentship to undertake research leading to a higher degree can cost as little as five hundred pound per year for the three years . |
| 28 | Britain 's growing dependence on American economic aid in the form of Lend-Lease was also leading to a disturbing degree of American control over British gold and dollar reserves . |
| 29 | There are certain academic precedents , particularly the uncontroversial establishment in a number of universities of degrees in drama , which do work previously thought of as belonging to an English degree . |
| 30 | Consider for example the case of the avoidance of brother-sister incest , which is based to a substantial degree on an inhibition developed during close domestic association in the first six years of life . |