Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] level of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Overall levels of education and of skills are lower , our institutions are coping only fitfully with modern conditions and there is an unsafely low level of investment . |
| 2 | Williamson 's romanticism and nature worship , on a rather lower level of theoretical conceptualisation , was to owe much to the books of Richard Jefferies , in particular the sunlight imagery of much of his work . |
| 3 | While NATO must maintain for the foreseeable future a mix of nuclear and conventional forces in Europe , the declaration reaffirmed that no weapons would ever be used except in self-defence and that the lowest and most stable level of nuclear forces to prevent war was sought . |
| 4 | From the most general to the most specific levels of affinity these have been labelled ( i ) Sequential , ( ii ) Substantial , ( iii ) Integral , and ( iv ) Unitary affinity . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Those in employment earn a relatively high income , but those out of work will continue to exist at rather low levels of unemployment benefit . |
| 7 | Traditionally , a low ratio is interpreted as indicating that investors as a whole expect rather low levels of future earnings or that those earnings are subject to a high level of risk . |
| 8 | Sweeney Agonistes takes its audience back not simply to what was seen as the childhood , even babyhood of ritual and civilization , but further down the evolutionary ladder to the most primitive level of that ‘ amorphous protoplasm ’ which makes up the human egg . |
| 9 | Emotional isolation is also manifested in a rather high level of insecurity in the relationships between husbands and wives . |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Now I have been digressing and let me say quite clearly that I never knew the answer and I do not know it now , how the tremendously high level of morale was sustained , not just in the Pathfinders , but throughout the Command as a whole . |
| 14 | While this downswing will not be as sharp as the previous downturn ( in 1979-81 ) , not least given the very much lower level of inflation that we now have , a dull 1989 is bound to be followed by a difficult 1990 . ’ |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 17 | This is no longer necessary ; fear for one 's personal safety is a much lower level of alarm . |
| 18 | By contrast , exceptional items in 1991 increased profits by £184 million ( £107 million after tax ) when the profit on sale of operations exceeded a much lower level of restructuring costs . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | These margins exhibit a much lower level of tectonic activity than the active margins located along convergent plate boundaries and are consequently termed passive continental margins ( or simply passive margins ) . |
| 21 | However , although this factor is important , it is unlikely to explain why default rates have risen so rapidly during 1990–91 compared with the early 1980s , given the much lower levels of inflation during the recent downturn . |
| 22 | What enraged the liberals was that this involved placing political appointees at much lower levels of the hierarchies than had been usual , to increase the positive responsiveness of the bureaucracy to his policies . |
| 23 | This high level of growth is largely attributable to the current extremely low level of industrialisation . |
| 24 | The increase in gearing from the extremely low level of last year to 38% is primarily occasioned by the acquisition of BMK . |
| 25 | The absorption of trace metals from mg or µg oral doses is often used as a proxy for the physiological situation since only low levels of these elements are usually found in the diet . |
| 26 | The tyres contain only low levels of carbon and no dioxins ; potentially harmful products of burning tyres are to be recycled . |
| 27 | This apparently low level of active parental involvement has important implications for other aspects of current policy — especially the arrangements for schools to opt out of local authority control . |
| 28 | Because in their terms , the object of the control regime , is to force down aggregate levels of indebtedness , and there are mechanisms wi within which it works which do that . |
| 29 | Hypoglycaemia , the abnormally low levels of blood sugar that occur in insulin-dependant diabetics , produces dizziness , palpitations , confusion and visual problems . |
| 30 | It is not difficult to show that even an apparently high level of detail in a criterion does not specify the test items unequivocally . |