Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] the level " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And if rumour were to go about the levels that the T'ang has lost something important and would clear a deck to find it ? |
| 2 | Is the Minister aware that the hon. Gentleman is quite right to worry about the level of representation in England because every time a Tory is defeated in Scotland he flees the country , comes down here and tries to get a Tory seat ? |
| 3 | Of course , if aggregate demand were to fall below the level indicated by AD , then the level of output would fall below y n . |
| 4 | Where we should expect to match France and Germany for industrial growth , we are about to fall below the levels of Greece and Portugal ’ . |
| 5 | However , the temperature-sensitive mutation is sufficiently altered in function , at both permissive and non-permissive temperatures , that the cell is able to function with the levels of R-M activity produced , without excision of the cloned ts - hsd genes . |
| 6 | In general , pedestrians prefer to walk on the level and by direct routes . |
| 7 | Strongly held desires are likely to belong to the level of verbal consciousness . |
| 8 | Merchandising wholesalers will be approached by HC next , though discussions with them are likely to focus on the level of returns . |
| 9 | It must be stressed again that this section of the chapter does not attempt to look at the level and nature of racial discrimination in Britain . |
| 10 | Nor had he wished to descend to the level of bureaucracy : he had hoped to succeed as a violinist , but lack of money ( and perhaps some want of talent , to which he did not admit ) had stood in his way . |
| 11 | There is a definite sense that Ulysses is above the cynicism and sourness , even if he has to descend to the level of the other warriors to convince them of his ideas . |
| 12 | Third , since 1984 , unions in RENFE have won the right to negotiate over the level of minimum service , and management has not normally run services in excess of that level even if resources were available . |
| 13 | These dive and swim underwater for planktonic food , the partly-folded wings acting as hydroplanes that help the shearwaters to hunt below the level of superficial feeders . |
| 14 | It is best to start with the levels in atoms , and some of the most successful quantitative descriptions of the behavior of electrons in molecules use an approach based on the Linear Combination of Atomic Orbitals ( LCAO ) . |
| 15 | Most people feel an obligation to keep in contact with their siblings , but beyond that it is regarded as quite proper for relationships to vary in the level of intimacy and the type of support offered ( Firth , Hubert and Forge , 1970 ; Allan , 1979 ) . |
| 16 | Hailey 's chief preoccupations , then , were to find ways of keeping educated Africans ( of whose mental capacities he took , incidentally , a dim view ) from making a successful bid for power at the centre of the colonial system , and to see that there was no unconsidered rush to reform at the level of the localities . |
| 17 | The appeal raises important and , to our minds , difficult questions of principle regarding the right of a mortgagor on the taking of a mortgage account to object to the level of costs , charges and expenses which the mortgagee claims to be entitled to charge against or retain out of the mortgaged property . |
| 18 | This was an attempt by a local authority to object to the level of grant it was deemed to be entitled to from the central government . |
| 19 | The two elements are equally well reconciled in ‘ Frost at Midnight ’ , where we are introduced to the workings of the ‘ Spirit ’ to a large degree ; the very setting of the poem , where the poet finds that ‘ at my side my cradled infant slumbers peacefully ’ suggests the power of creation ; it is partly owing to the silent yet undeniable presence of the product of his own regeneration that allows Coleridge to ascend to the levels of ‘ meditation with its strange and extreme silentness ’ . |
| 20 | Opposition Members may wish to argue about the level of those funds . |
| 21 | Thirdly it is seen that a policy of specialism may demand either full-time paid advisers or volunteers with at least two days a week spare to allow for the level of training and continuity that specialist work demands . |
| 22 | Quite simply , there is too little equipment installed to account for the levels of unemployment . |
| 23 | ONCE again , Arena failed to turn in the level of performance of which they are undoubtedly capable as they struggled to overcome a depleted but game Novas ' side 54–47 in the men 's division of the Mid-Essex Gravel League . |
| 24 | Peter Monteith 's gallant campaigner ran unplaced on the Flat at Ayr just 48 hours previously but , though still to score on the level , he has now amassed four hurdle wins in addition to 12 over the bigger obstacles . |
| 25 | It will then be up to a care manager to decide on the level of service . |
| 26 | If it wants to decide on the level of that levy , that issue should also be left to the sector . |
| 27 | The objective of summarizing is to check on the level of understanding and give an opportunity to sort out misunderstandings . |
| 28 | Much of the writing about television fiction seems to me to remain at the level of elementary genres , grounded in the dominance of the semantic aspect , with relatively little analytic or historical attention to the ‘ verbal ’ ( style , mise-en-scene ) or the ‘ syntactic ’ ( narrative structure ) : there is very little close textual analysis of television fiction , and there is no scholarly history of the development of television form to compare with the histories which have emerged of early cinema . |
| 29 | He saw the Brussels agreement being extended eventually to cover the whole of Western Europe , but each step would have to be thoroughly explored , and the overall character would have to remain at the level of intergovernmental cooperation . |
| 30 | Fees for legal aid work to remain at the levels set in April 1992 , despite the increase in overheads of the profession . |