Example sentences of "was [vb pp] at [art] [adj] level " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus violence was sustained at a high level by American capitals ‘ first great offensive against labor ’ from the late-nineteenth century to the 1920s . |
| 2 | A few seconds later a second flock was seen at a higher level and directly in the aircraft 's flight path . |
| 3 | The allocation was decided at the highest level of government , and radio broadcasting had long been low on the list of priorities . |
| 4 | The truth is that the health authorities and the social services department engaged in different types of service development , in different contexts , with different resources and with different outcomes — even though a surprisingly uniform ideal of community care was upheld at the local level throughout the service systems . |
| 5 | This loss of power was reflected at the parliamentary level ( Table 2.2 ) . |
| 6 | This effect could not be attributed to different patterns of intonation in the two conditions ( Zurif and Mendelsohn , 1972 ) which implies that the effect was mediated at a syntactic level . |
| 7 | The only disturbance to the peace of this natural sanctuary occurred 120 years ago when a spectacular railway was laid at a high level across the head of the valley ; this apart , Dentdale today is very much as it was three centuries ago , happily free from modern developments and well content to remain so . |
| 8 | The applicant John Cox was involved at the highest level in both CND and the Communist Party of Great Britain , both in the period of Communist domination ’ and in the late 1970s when CND was growing . |
| 9 | I was involved at an abstract level with the struggles of the Vietnamese and the Palestinians far away , or the miners ( in 1974 ) nearer home . |
| 10 | The northern half of the piazza , which was left at a lower level to accommodate a pedestrian subway ( unbuilt as yet ) to the nearby Forum des Halles shopping centre , will be filled in . |
| 11 | If a decision that he regarded as properly belonging to himself was taken at a lower level ( even by the prime minister ) , he invariably administered a sharp rebuke . |
| 12 | ‘ The decision to meet Sakharov 's demand and save his life was taken at the highest level , evidently at a meeting of the politbureau . |
| 13 | This combination was expressed at the national level by ‘ Butskellism ’ — that bi-partisan approach to government relying on an expanded mixed economy , and underlain by the social-democratic compromise between capital and labour . |
| 14 | This power over the working class was achieved at the economic level , through the extraction of surplus value at the point of production , and politically . |
| 15 | In other words , they would still be dependent on a means-tested housing benefit in order to ensure that their income was paid at the minimum level laid down by Parliament . |