Example sentences of "[adv prt] to the level " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not only did he have to keep wafting a smoke machine to create that distinctive curry house fug , and smoking cigarettes down to the level of the previous scene ; he also had to keep up a steady supply of fresh poppadums . |
| 2 | It was as if poets owed an explanation to the audience for being what they were , to bring creatures apart down to the level of ordinary folks ; as if the poet might be indulged his little failings and eccentricities as long as he allowed himself to be democratically mauled in public by thoughtless questioners or — even worse , much worse — by fellow-poets or by those who had poetic pretensions and who found in ‘ question time ’ an opportunity to assuage their jealousy or seek revenge for their own incompetence and mediocrity . |
| 3 | The Corporation , in any event , envisaged a higher building on the lorry-park site to match the larger building beyond , with the silhouette stepped down to the level of the Georgian Custom House on the east side . |
| 4 | We can not therefore budget down to the level of the individual patient . |
| 5 | It has taken a woman to remind us all that there are people out there who are determined that Northern Ireland will not be dragged down to the level of barbarity displayed by the terrorists . |
| 6 | This thin bar is pushed down to the level of the trimmer head , and is claimed to prevent wear on the cord when working near a tree or wall , that would normally abrade the nylon cord . |
| 7 | He , and Gimli and Gollum and Haldir , keep even Lórien tied down to the level of story , in which rivers are tactical obstacles and not symbols for something else . |
| 8 | Primary subcontractors will therefore transfer personnel , equipment and ideas about organization to their own subcontractors who in turn do likewise right down to the level of the single-person firm . |
| 9 | She stepped down to the level . |
| 10 | Moreover , it has the advantage of providing data down to the level of the individual enumeration district covering roughly 500 inhabitants , which , even if too small for certain purposes , can be treated as a building block for areas specially defined by the user ( Rhind , 1983 ) . |
| 11 | It would last , they knew , about half an hour — until the single joss stick planted in a bowl of white rice on the altar burned down to the level of the cereal . |
| 12 | There are 1446 main shopping areas covering all well known centres down to the level of small local centres . |
| 13 | ‘ The main issue for us is to close the gap and we have now brought our discount rate down to the level where the highest anybody pays is 3.95 per cent . ’ |
| 14 | Nobody would take her seriously , Luke would laugh it off and take control of the situation , belittle her in front of his friends … and , besides , did she really want Mark 's death brought down to the level of party-stopper ? |
| 15 | A major military reshuffle was carried out on Sept. 9 involving 557 senior officers down to the level of colonel . |
| 16 | Only specialist engineers are likely to go down to the level of AND gates and NOR gates , and only physicists will go down further , to the level of how electrons behave in a semiconducting medium . |
| 17 | First of all , Councillor comments , erm , you know , there seems to be this this er conservative mentality , that is let's drive all our working conditions down to the level of the competition , which means , you know , we would have a a mining industry if we were prepared to put children in , like that do in Columbia . |
| 18 | Do you bring everything down to the level of sexual innuendo ? ’ |
| 19 | Councillor George Morrison , chairman of Lisburn Council 's ad hoc health committee , said : ‘ I believe there is a real danger of the smaller local hospitals being run down to the level of glorified health centres . ’ |
| 20 | A PAPER fan inherited among a job lot on her marriage led Mrs Lynn Lamport on a trail of historical intrigue unearthing tales of three-in-a-bed and of a Lady whose gambling losses brought her down to the level of street sweeper . |
| 21 | In a separate study which Jenkins and Sherman quote , from the Institute of Manpower Studies at the University of Sussex , the estimate was that for there to be enough jobs created to keep unemployment down to the levels of the mid-1970s there would need to be growth in the gross domestic product ( GDP ) averaging 3.5 per cent per annum in the UK . |
| 22 | A world leader with the security industry is actually going down to the levels of the one man and a dog outfit . |
| 23 | So warning number one for the carp bait genius , make sure you can get your amino acid levels down to the levels found in nature ! |
| 24 | How is it that police forces such as Lothian and Borders are this year reporting crime rates back down to the levels of 1981 ? |
| 25 | ‘ ALTHOUGH the contribution of the world we live in to the levels of risk is most obvious for accidents , developments in medical thinking throughout the last two centuries have indicated how by modifying the way we live — originally through general improvements in diet and hygiene , more recently through changes in education and social welfare — we can contribute substantially to prolongation of healthy life or its reduction by increasing smoke pollution and cigarette consumption ’ . |
| 26 | Andy is filling the single champagne glass at the apex of the pyramid with champagne ; it is overflowing , filling the three glasses beneath it ; they in turn are overflowing , filling the glasses on the level beneath them , which are also full and so spilling over to the level underneath , and so on and so on down almost to the bottom ; Andy is on his eighth magnum . |
| 27 | ‘ I 've been involved in a few of these things but I 've never seen anyone bring it up to the level he did — he turned it up a few notches . ’ |
| 28 | It might even bring British computer people up to the level of their more professional continental opposite numbers . |
| 29 | Even after the £383m the bank got from selling a 14.9% stake in itself to the Hongkong Bank and the £1.1 billion it raised from a rights issue and the sale of its Scottish and Irish banks , Midland still struggles to keep its third-world debt provisions up to the level of its rivals . |
| 30 | The pay of David Kershaw , 30 , from Merseyside , a locally-hired computer programmer at Fujitsu is the same as that of Japanese colleagues — which he describes as average because , he says , ‘ the basic pay is so low you end up putting in lots of overtime to bring your income up to the level in England . ’ |