noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
80/90 etc degree heat
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Why would you want to play tennis in a hundred-degree heat?
a degree course British English ( also an undergraduate course ) (= a first course at a university, which usually lasts three years )
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a three-year degree course
a degree/measure of protection (= some protection )
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The shelter gave us a measure of protection against the bitter cold.
a level/standard/degree of competence
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The trainees are expected to acquire a basic level of competence.
a university degree
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He was a qualified engineer with a university degree.
an element/degree of risk (= some risk, but not much )
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There is always an element of risk in flying.
bachelor's degree
degree of certainty
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The result is impossible to predict with any degree of certainty .
degree of formality
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There is always some degree of formality when one speaks to a stranger.
degree of overlap
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a large degree of overlap
degree/level of expertise
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Different financial advisers will have different levels of expertise.
first degree
first/second/third class honours degree
high level/degree/rate etc (of sth)
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High levels of car use mean our streets are more congested than ever.
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high crime rates
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high interest rates
honours degree
joint honours degree (= a degree in two main subjects )
master's degree
third degree
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I got home after midnight and Dad gave me the third degree.
to a lesser extent/degree
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This was true in Madrid and, to a lesser extent, Valencia and Seville.
to such an extent/degree that
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Her condition deteriorated to such an extent that a blood transfusion was considered necessary.
undergraduate student/course/degree etc
varying degrees
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She was involved in a number of car accidents of varying degrees of seriousness.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
certain
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There has been a certain degree of controversy in recent years over the practice of self-investment by pension funds.
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Uncle Michael was prone to a certain degree of sweetness, at least with me, and could be coaxed into compliance.
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A certain degree of unevenness is acceptable in nomadic and some village items.
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But times had changed to a certain unpredictable degree in Manhattan, especially for people like Jack.
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To a certain degree , the rush to get on line boils down to simple economics.
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Although inflation was invoked to make the universe smooth, it can provide a certain degree of clumpiness.
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Lately, I could say with a certain degree of certainty that she was truly recuperating.
considerable
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It may lead to a considerable degree of social deprivation and a miserable existence for the families involved.
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To a considerable degree , it was Social Darwinism which led the way in so broadening the claim for the market.
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First, there exists a considerable degree of overlap between the various titles.
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First, the considerable degree of lexical inventiveness which was present.
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If properly used it could improve the quality of life by a considerable degree .
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Police work involves a considerable degree of flexibility and discretion.
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They must, therefore, be dismissed as not being good in themselves, or not to any considerable degree .
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We are all to a considerable degree the authors of our moral world.
different
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The skills acquired from rigid planning are different in degree but not in kind from the skills required for flexible planning.
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Individual car owners benefit in different degrees from the existence of good roads.
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In Example 24 change is presented in different degrees .
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In this, the case of Pound is no different from other writers, or it is different only in degree .
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Two men had her - in different degrees .
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The secondary imagination is its echo, alike in kind with the primary but different in degree and in mode of operation.
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Many facets of spoken language are absent from written language. Different degrees of planning are associated with speech and writing.
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Interestingly, scientists are now saying that odour is different in degree to memory rather than different in kind.
great
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These more favoured subcontractors, however, gain a greater degree of continuity at the expense of wider variations in profits.
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To some greater or lesser degree , it fits in the parenting section of their life.
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There were strong pressures from still further national minorities for a greater degree of control over their own affairs.
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Tanks, to a greater degree than APCs, embodied the strengths and weaknesses of armored vehicles.
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The increased level of competition between banks and building societies led to a greater degree of diversification of products.
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The greater the degree of economic development, the greater the incidence of cancer of the colon.
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Compared to the Soccer World Cup the rugby appealed to the ABC1 and younger elements to a greater degree .
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Such incidents happen with greater or lesser degrees of seriousness at regular intervals in all our lives.
high
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The layout below allows the owner to live in a high degree of comfort.
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The worship incorporates dreams, healing, trances, and a high degree of lay participation.
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Where there is a high degree of skill division then more formalized and externalized co-ordination and control will be required.
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The Inland Revenue was particularly welcoming to those with a higher degree .
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The two explanations above show a high degree of commonality in their reasoning.
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Equally, so-called autonomous bodies are subject to a high degree of central government control.
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This means that a higher body temperature is associated with a higher degree of alertness or a smaller amount of fatigue.
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Young physicians entering their first research post and hoping for a higher degree are vulnerable and naive.
honorary
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He has long since withdrawn his name from Who's Who, declines to accept honorary degrees and refuses to be interviewed.
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Awards: Erma Bombeck holds 15 honorary degrees .
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He was awarded several honorary degrees in recognition of this intellectual and institutional contribution.
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Meanwhile Baroness Thatcher has become Chancellor of the private university at Buckingham and hands out her own honorary degrees .
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They will receive honorary degrees at the university's Commemoration Day ceremony in the Barony Hall next month.
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His acceptance of an honorary degree from the anti-Catholic Bob Jones University in 1999 continues to stir controversy.
joint
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A number of joint degree courses are available.
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The wide range of joint degrees available reflects the extent to which Linguistics relates to other subject areas.
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The joint degree in Linguistics and Artificial Intelligence is unique in Britain.
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There is also a diagram of the joint degrees in the Faculty of Arts on page 61.
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Alternatively, students might take a joint degree where equal time is spent on two subjects.
large
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Reductions in bus passenger and car rear seat passenger casualties have contributed in large degree to this decrease.
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This issue was to a large degree manufactured.
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What's more, the institutions that were set up allowed nation states a large degree of autonomy.
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The development of such drugs would overcome, to a large degree , the problem of compliance with disulfiram treatment.
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Even without him playing the improvement in the defence must be due to a large degree to his presence.
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The difference in baselines between these two groups results from the large degree of individual variation in salivary secretion.
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It was an unspectacular, stable society, like the Basque Provinces enjoying a large degree of local autonomy.
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There is a large degree of uncertainty about the extent to which women worked underground in the eighteenth-century coal industry.
lesser
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We all of us have needs that are practical as well as those that are to a greater or lesser degree intellectual or theoretical.
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So did some leaders in Mesa, Chandler and Scottsdale, cities that participated to a lesser degree .
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To a much lesser degree , retailing may share some such characteristic.
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To some greater or lesser degree , it fits in the parenting section of their life.
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Such incidents happen with greater or lesser degrees of seriousness at regular intervals in all our lives.
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One can argue that transfer payments involve a lesser degree of government intervention in the economy than do government purchases.
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Each of these premises can be seen acting to a greater or lesser degree in the siting of any particular settlement.
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Overall, these various proportional systems achieve a greater or lesser degree of proportionality in representation.
significant
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They maintain a significant degree of nuclear strength.
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Most of them, though recognizable as paintings, are to a significant degree photographic in form.
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The concentration of phospholipids was also higher in the cholesterol gall stone patients but not to a significant degree .
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The romance of the movies was to a significant degree an entrepreneurial romance.
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Expenditure on research assistants might also save a significant degree of time and money in the long run.
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Voting discipline is very high and there is a significant degree of cohesion.
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The upshot of all this is that takeovers involve a significant degree of risk for offerors.
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Before addressing it, I must set out the facts, which are not in dispute to any significant degree .
undergraduate
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It also makes an ideal text to support an undergraduate degree course in analytical chemistry.
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The $ 100, 000-plus cost of a Harvard or Yale undergraduate degree affects only a tiny minority.
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People with excellent undergraduate degrees should not be deterred from applying.
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Within this population there will be a mix of undergraduate , postgraduate degree , diploma and certificate students.
varying
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With varying degrees of vigour, officials tried to stamp it out.
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Every one of us has prejudices of some kind in varying degrees .
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In other jurisdictions community treatment orders have been introduced with varying degrees of success.
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It was also where criminals could be questioned, with varying degree , away from the more public places.
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It is not that varying degrees of procedural protection should not exist: the range of licences demands this diversity.
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Everyone knows that there are various formats and varying degrees of emphasis on management and work force.
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They had all reached the market with varying degrees of success.
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The varying degrees of purity of native gold involved different melting-points.
■ NOUN
college
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I was convinced that without a college degree I could never succeed.
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Many industrial production managers have a college degree in business administration or industrial engineering.
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And no more than one in twenty earned a college degree .
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When Helen and I had children, we were both determined that they would get their college degrees .
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The path is somewhat different for those who enter without a college degree or do not go through the internship program.
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White men with high school diplomas earn more than Hispanic women with college degrees .
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Seventy-six percent of the delegates have either a college degree or post-graduate degrees.
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Such things were important in the Johnson household, where all five of the children went on to receive college degrees .
course
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The department offers general and honours degree courses in nursing.
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He nudges the Rushmore with half- degree course changes.
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The University and the City of Edinburgh provide an ideal environment for the degree course , academically and physically.
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The normal duration of these degree courses is four years.
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Normal entrance requirements for degree courses should apply, and parallel courses should make differentiated demands on students.
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More often, though, they - like degree courses at universities - are termed higher education.
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Many physics students, and almost all physical science students, had an instrumental attitude towards their degree courses .
law
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He also earned a law degree before changing his name from Margulois to Merrick and moving to New York in 1939.
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He earned a law degree in 1934, but he never practiced that kind of law at that kind of bar.
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The law degree has two different roles.
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How many mechanics have a law degree behind them or a management degree to deal with this?
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He was awarded a law degree at the Sorbonne, where he flirted with the extreme right.
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I liked what he had to say about law as vocation, and all the diverse possibilities a law degree introduced.
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Dole got her law degree from Harvard, while Clinton took hers at Yale.
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He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1962 and received a law degree from Yale University law school.
university
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Social class 1 consists of occupations requiring a university degree or high professional equivalent.
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Many students now choose to complete an apprenticeship and then pursue a university degree to improve their job prospects.
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Those with a university degree rose by twelve percent.
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There are university degree programs that teach less on the subject than this two-character play does in a couple of hours.
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It offers multilingual and interdisciplinary curriculum at University degree level.
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Traditionally, public university degrees have carried far greater social prestige.
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George joined the ranks of the executive high-flyers, those with university degrees , I joined in a much humbler capacity.
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For the past year has spent her spare moments studying for an Open University degree in science and technology.
■ VERB
achieve
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Within the burrow, the spadefoot achieves a high degree of protection from the relentless heat of the desert sand above.
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Mary achieved a high degree of competence in all projects.
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Although it is possible to achieve some degree of change without top-level commitment, that change is likely to be ephemeral at best.
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Many habitual drinkers of caffeine-containing beverages find that they must increase their dose to achieve the preferred degree of stimulation.
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Implement the changes to the filing references proposed by the Filing Working Party, to achieve some degree of commonality. 2.
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In that way he achieves the highest degree of attention to detail.
depend
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Rank-this depends on the degree of metamorphism.
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They even went beyond the photogram which, though made without the camera, still depended on a degree of photographic manipulation.
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The breeding season lasts from late spring until late summer, depending to some degree upon temperature.
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The risks of these complications depend , to some degree , on whether the condition is primary or secondary.
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The creation of meaning depends on the degree of match between the language available and the intention of the user.
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The other subjects taken depend upon the degree course chosen.
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The answer depends , to some degree , on the effectiveness of those who have been active in the intervening years.
earn
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He also earned a law degree before changing his name from Margulois to Merrick and moving to New York in 1939.
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He earned a law degree in 1934, but he never practiced that kind of law at that kind of bar.
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And no more than one in twenty earned a college degree .
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One of my many dear children earned himself a creditable degree in environmental sciences a couple of years ago.
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Telbis-Preis went to college in the city of Timisoara and earned a structural engineering degree .
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Sachs got his degree in biology from Yale University and went on to earn degrees in medicine and film from Stanford University.
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Bhutto earned degrees at Harvard and Oxford.
gain
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These more favoured subcontractors, however, gain a greater degree of continuity at the expense of wider variations in profits.
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Wirral-born Mike joined the company in 1979 from Newcastle University where he gained a chemical engineering degree .
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If you wish, you can go on from there to gain an Honours degree .
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However for AEs the figures were virtually identical with those of standard entrants. 2% more SEs gained good degrees than NSEs.
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After leaving Richmond School, he gained a degree in sports studies at Newcastle Polytechnic.
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She gained a degree in both languages and subsequently enroled in our course.
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Only 25.4% gained a good degree compared with 32.1% of the SEs and 30.1% of the NSEs as a whole.
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Jones International, a for-profit university, recently caused controversy by gaining full degree accreditation.
offer
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One good thing which happened immediately was that Universities offered shortened degree courses to suitably qualified ex-service men.
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In 1994, over 100 colleges and universities offered 4-year degree programs in construction management or construction science.
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The department offers general and honours degree courses in nursing.
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And three, they offer a high degree of customer service.
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The Department of Economic and Social History offers two single honours degrees .
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They're not offering a degree in stage management or a pass for being a good actor or actress.
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The University also offers Master's degrees by research lasting 12 months.
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Now it's signed a deal with Swindon College, agreeing to offer joint degrees , with a view to applying for University status.
receive
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They will receive honorary degrees at the university's Commemoration Day ceremony in the Barony Hall next month.
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Such things were important in the Johnson household, where all five of the children went on to receive college degrees .
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He received a master's degree in agricultural economics and a doctorate in economics and marketing from Cornell University.
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Students who successfully complete the work will receive a new degree , a graduate certificate in public health.
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She received her master's degree in health service administration from the University of Oregon, Eugene.
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After receiving a degree there, he received a medical degree from George Washington University.
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Leo's, he received a bachelor's degree in sociology, with a minor in literature.
require
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To read in such a small bar code successfully requires a very high degree of resolution.
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And it requires no very high degree of education to convince them of this.
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To accede to his arguments would require an unacceptable degree of judicial creativity.
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It was the final straw for those requiring some degree of musical consistency from the guy.
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It is obvious that this requires a high degree of commitment to regular practice, with punctuality and concentration during rehearsals.
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A 1992 Labor Department study found one in six college graduates doing work that did not generally require a college degree .
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The first is, yes, to show appreciation and respect - which various people require in varying degrees .
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It is a veiled warning to those who do not feel the required degree of appreciation.
show
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Furthermore, a monograph of any large tropical group will show varying degrees of recognition of the ecological requirements of different species.
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Job holders A profile of job holders shows a degree of resemblance to job seekers.
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Secondly, however, these clusters also show a certain degree of relatedness or overlap.
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She thought his parlor humor and penchant for sarcasm showed a certain degree of immaturity.
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The two explanations above show a high degree of commonality in their reasoning.
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Worse, there was no trend showing that the degree of recovery increased with age.
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The human brain shows a degree of complexity of a different order.
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However the study shows that the degree quality of the AEs is relatively weak.
vary
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Possible worlds vary in their degree of resemblance to the actual world.
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In varying degrees , they incorporate into their own attitudes and actions the dysfunctional beliefs their organizations seem to be advocating.
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Depending upon the style of kungfu being practised, the forms vary in length and degrees of difficulty.
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The intensity of creative people varies in degree .
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Yet previous research indicates that members of senior management teams in these schools vary in the degree in which they collaborate.
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All of these folks, to varying degrees , have contributed to the new album as well.
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Both cells will see movement to the right but the direction seen will vary by 90 degrees .
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And each, to varying degrees , is a stereotype.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
confer a title/degree/honour etc
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Poets confer honour neither on themselves nor on their work by using a sophisticated diction.
give sb the third degree
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I was just out with friends - you don't have to give me the third degree.
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Whenever one of my boyfriends came to the house, Dad would give them the third degree.
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And would Feargal now give him the third degree?
murder in the first degree
no small degree/achievement/task etc
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A large body of theory and no small degree of controversy exist relative to the treatment of uncertainty.
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The idea suggests alignment of individual goals and group purposes, no small achievement.
to the nth degree
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It's an exaggeration to the nth degree.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a law degree
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Cohn has a degree in political science from the University of Chicago.
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Her dream is to get a degree in computer science and then get a high-paying job.
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It got down to 27 degrees last night.
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Maggie is doing a degree in psychology.
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To what degree is unemployment society's fault?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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An achieved status is entered as a result of some degree of purposive action and choice.
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And somehow-not solely by osmosis, either-we began acquiring that degree of skill and energy and initiative of quick intelligence.
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But do these programs really keep the pathway to a four-year degree open?
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Not all of these subjects, however, may necessarily be acceptable as admission requirements for particular degree courses or particular faculties.
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She never finished her advanced degree and was always about to lose her job as an adjunct.
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The best Scourie brown trout lochs require a fair degree of fitness to reach.
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The flexibility introduced into the system by the carriers means that each group is able to operate with a degree of autonomy.
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There is a large degree of mobility among public accountants, management accountants, and internal auditors.