Example sentences of "a [adv] [adj] level [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The House of Commons Estimates Committee in 1967 recognized this : no less than nine Whitehall departments were involved in a rather low level of activity . |
| 2 | In this sense , and at a rather high level of abstraction , the very possibility within discourse of a historically located cultural field , marked by internally contradictory relations and hence by particularly difficult questions of causation and explanation , is part of the problematic of bourgeois society ; that is , it is internal to , and historically related to , a particular historical-social stage ( see Burke 1981 ) . |
| 3 | Much of this argumentation is , of course , concerned with very broad states of language , and , as I have pointed out , can apply only at a rather high level of generality , because it is likely that in EModE , as in PresE , there were varying conditioned allophones of /a/ ( perhaps some front and some back , or some low and some low-mid ) . |
| 4 | The reason for this is that Field 's New Tribe is imbued with the rather vague mission of transmitting ‘ Western techniques ’ to traditional societies and although this opens the door to many fascinating details about the structures of culture contact , it is at a rather high level of generality for explanatory purposes and it seriously underplays the role of the classes responsible for capitalist expansionism . |
| 5 | Emotional isolation is also manifested in a rather high level of insecurity in the relationships between husbands and wives . |
| 6 | So we get two things , we get a very good new personality , and secondly , an intelligent personality , and , therefore , and this is an important part of the strategy , she gets out of the other archaeologists she 's talking to a much higher level of interaction and intellectual interchange than she would if she were simply a standard presenter . |
| 7 | It 's a mighty brew , and it 's a sound which could well carry them to a much higher level of success , if that 's what they want . |
| 8 | The Act provides a much higher level of protection for investors , including improved monitoring , and compensation arrangements through the Investors ' Compensation Scheme , since August 1988 . |
| 9 | We strongly feel that the implementation of sound information policies will lead to improvements in efficiency , and hence to cost savings , whilst supporting a much higher level of research within the organization . |
| 10 | Some years ago in Britain ( 1960-75 ) there was a period of a much higher level of obesity in babies when the general view was that ‘ you can not overfeed a baby ’ . |
| 11 | British Social Attitudes , The Eighth Report , recently published by Dartmouth Publishing Company , shows that homeowners have a much greater level of satisfaction than those who rent . |
| 12 | This is no longer necessary ; fear for one 's personal safety is a much lower level of alarm . |
| 13 | This is a much lower level of use than either Edinburgh or Glasgow , but in view of the standard of service observed on this occasion , it is impossible to say whether this usage figure represents lower demand , or merely laxity in control . |
| 14 | Without such basic knowledge , you might gain some small insight into the sport , but at a much lower level of appreciation than if you had done some reading in advance . |
| 15 | Optimal scaffolding is that which promotes the highest level of functioning with the minimal level of support ; a child who is having difficulty in making herself understood may require a great deal of support ; a few minutes later that same child dealing with a different topic may become relatively fluent and require a much lower level of adult participation . |
| 16 | But it is clear that the data collected in close investigations of live speech communities are much richer than the data preserved from early language states , and they are observable in a larger number of dimensions and at a much finer level of detail ; thus , the patterns revealed in systematic investigations of live communities appear to the observer as much more variable and multidimensional than historical patterns ( as these are usually reported ) . |
| 17 | The dynamic process generating endogenous economies of scale leads exchanges to compete by being first off the mark in a particular contract so as to achieve a sufficiently high level of trading , and consequently liquidity , and thereby low transactions costs for the traders in that contract . |
| 18 | Adults are at least able to acquire , even though this may not be at a sufficiently high level of competence . |
| 19 | A special innovation in both mammals and birds was homoiothermy , warm-bloodedness , which allows a constantly high level of activity that is not dependent upon the temperature of the environment . |
| 20 | I shall start by considering in section 4.3 some variables which are characteristic of Belfast English , but which seem to function at a somewhat higher level of generality than those that we have mentioned so far — as identity markers for the community as a whole rather than for internal differentiation within it . |
| 21 | The achievement of a highly reliable level of software management is currently the most important step that must be taken towards overall control of software production , configuration and issue . |
| 22 | The existence at Edinburgh of a range of computer-based disciplines — many of which enjoy worldwide reputations — has a spin-off effect across Faculties , giving wide access to a highly sophisticated level of computing potential . |
| 23 | Glass says he has a naturally high level of production . |
| 24 | MAFF says that only 1 per cent of the 2,500 samples analysed in 1990 and 1991 exceeded Maximum Residue Levels , although the Pesticides Trust commented that this was a worryingly high level for staple foods . |
| 25 | Preliminary work carried out by [ MS during 1983 found a generally low level of information in departments about the initial destinations of their postgraduate students ( 1 ) . |
| 26 | Add to this a generally shallow level of discourse marked by cliché calls for ‘ cultural growth ’ and ‘ multicultural relativity ’ , and you will begin to sense the absurdity of this function of UNESCO 's museum arm . |
| 27 | Though a few traveller families and children will continue to require individual services , as in the rest of the population , a generally increased level of surveillance and individualised casework will not provide the answer . |
| 28 | None the less , some things do seem clear : the unlikelihood of more baby booms , except for weaker echoes of the present one , and a generally lower level of fertility . |
| 29 | This may help them assess the range of teaching quality within the school , on the assumption that a generally high level of provision across the week for a given class will tend to produce better attendance and vice versa . |
| 30 | This found not only a generally high level of support for the police , but that this spread throughout the class structure ( indeed was marginally higher in the working class ) . |