take a degree

People can “take a degree of comfort”, says Mr Jukes, that since the attacks in London and Manchester in 2017, “that terrible year”, police have disrupted nearly 40 “terrorist plots”.

It doesn't take a degree in psychology to see this, just functioning senses and a social media account.

But it would take a degree of nerve, a love of visual impact and a reinvention of connoisseurship that few museums seem able to accommodate these days.

It doesn’t take a degree in aerospace engineering to know that, ideally, rockets aren’t supposed to blow up.

Dismantling it will take a degree of oversight and reform that is probably beyond your power to deliver, even collectively.