Example sentences of "[noun sg] the [adj] level " in BNC.

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1 What we see here then is that the channel is markedly stimulated to open , its open state probability increases , but once it is open , the level the current level which it passes , the amount of the number ions flowing through per unit time , is not significantly different from that er case in which the calcium was lower .
2 Bearing in mind the high level of interest rates , the IMF warned that , without additional expenditure cuts , the public deficit could reach at least L142,000,000 million ( approximately $112,600 million ) .
3 Importantly , in the community-based study the higher level of systolic blood pressure in diabetic subjects persisted even after correcting for obesity , although the relationship was not as strong .
4 A high degree of constructive conflict is almost essential in this process and I should perhaps quote the comments of a wise manager I worked for at one time , who pointed out that in industry the optimum level of conflict is not zero ; just as no friction or one hundred per cent friction immobilizes movement in a mechanical sense , so total absence of conflict or one hundred per cent conflict will immobilize movement in a company .
5 If exposed to either artificial or natural light the solanine level will rise and could cause gastroenteritis , but because of the bitter nature of this substance it is unlikely that sufficient quantities would be ingested to cause illness .
6 The government response was predictable : ‘ In the longer term the appropriate level of opencast output should be determined by the market subject to the acceptability of individual projects through the planning system ’ .
7 Technical harmonisation and standards developing standardisation the European level covering a wide range of products .
8 Daylight regrettably is excluded , apart from an occasional glimmer , but in compensation the light level for the paintings is reasonably high and constant with no modish alternation of spotlighting and shadow .
9 You may feel that only a major record company can offer your band the right level of investment and promotion .
10 In Inner London as a whole the average level of population loss fell from 63,000 per year in the early 1970s to 14,000 per year a decade later .
11 In this approach the high level of unionisation in Sweden is not the result of any cultural propensity on the part of the Swedish population ( because of its ethnic homogeneity ) to seek objectives by way of interest group organisations — a factor which Adams ( 1975 ) notes has sometimes been suggested by way of explanation .
12 In this model the top level represents strategic information used to govern the long-term behaviour of the organisation .
13 After a meal consisting largely of refined carbohydrate food the blood-sugar level goes up very quickly , which would seem to be a good thing in satisfying the appetite .
14 At the same time the general level of wealth in this unremarkable corner of the East Midlands , peopled entirely by peasant farmers , with a leavening of yeomen and only a handful of rich squires , was lower only than on the fertile cornlands of Norfolk and in the opulent Stour Valley manufacturing district — higher not only than in other , similar regions but also Berkshire , which the yield of the loans , 1522 — 3 , placed fifth jointly with Suffolk , and Gloucestershire which shared fourteenth place with Rutland itself .
15 " We do n't go in for flowers , " said Clelia , displaying with a sweep of her arm the lower level , curiously cluttered with urns , a bench , a dislocated piece of mosaic resting on its end , and a functionless fountain .
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