Example sentences of "at the [adj] levels " in BNC.

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1 Lorne Boswell , Scottish secretary of the actors ' union , Equity , said there was alarm at the low levels of grant for theatre companies .
2 It was used in a similar way by the newly literate or semi-literate Bolsheviks at the higher levels of the Smolensk and Kursk guberniia party organizations , as can be seen from even a cursory reading of their minutes .
3 At the higher levels of education scientists , economists and others who may play a future role in policy making , research and administration must be helped to understand the problems of disadvantaged areas in relation to society and the economy as a whole .
4 I am prepared to argue that doing business involves , even at the lower levels in an organization but especially at the higher levels of management , semantic problem-solving ; for example , agreeing on boundaries , identifying individuals , establishing and maintaining classifications , conjecturing ways of doing things that belong in no existing formal schema .
5 At the higher levels , humans in the prime of life can hear noises up to about 20,000 cycles per second .
6 Both came to lead theoretically revolutionary parties , which they staffed at the higher levels with relatives or friends from their home region .
7 At the higher levels of government , candidates are usually selected by the top leaders themselves , another element of ‘ top down ’ power , making the actual election process little more than a ‘ rubber stamping ’ exercise .
8 At the higher levels , the syllabus is necessarily more complex and in Directions , the fourth book in the series , the standard unit format is the double page spread .
9 These are picture-based at the earlier levels , and text-based at the higher levels .
10 The police force in Korea was controlled by Japanese at the higher levels but included appreciable numbers of Koreans : in 1930 Korean police officers represented approximately 40 per cent of the total force of 18,811 .
11 The proportion of women in higher education has risen sharply in recent decades — one of the most visible gains in the egalitarian struggle — although in practice young female school-leavers are still less qualified than their male counterparts ( and this signifies , in this country , a truly parlous state of readiness for adult occupations ) ; while in the teaching profession itself , women have yet to achieve anything like parity at the higher levels , as college heads , directors of departments and university professors .
12 However , at the higher levels of attainment , boys are still achieving proportionally far better results than girls and are participating more .
13 I do not know whether the pattern which we see in this country — of significant differences between girls and boys appearing only at the higher levels of achievement — would also apply to the SIMS data .
14 At the highest levels by 1922 there was an almost complete overlap of personnel between party and Soviet committees .
15 It is clear that there were disagreements at the highest levels on the timing of the abolition of Pomgol and the export of grain .
16 The result has been that ‘ investment at the highest levels ever ’ has come from fares , not from any public purse , and that an ‘ economic ’ system has become unsafe as BR and LRT weigh up commercial investment needs against the cost of safety measures and the cost of paying wages sufficient to maintain a safe level of staffing .
17 SIR RAGHAVAN PILLAI , the eminent Indian civil servant , who has died aged 93 , achieved the distinction of holding positions at the highest levels both during the Raj and after Independence .
18 Loyalty to specific lords was an essential aspect of medieval life , running from the most humble serf , who was virtually a possession or slave , to the bond between vassal and lord that held the entire culture together at the highest levels .
19 The new chairman of the physics committee , Professor Michael Hart of Kings College , London , wants to see more representation of mainstream physics at the highest levels within the SERC — especially on the council itself .
20 To take one example , in October 1988 male unemployment in East London was at the highest levels in the South-East : 21 per cent in Tower Hamlets ; 18 per cent in Southwark and 14 per cent in Newham , reflecting the acute poverty and low levels of education in these areas .
21 Good presentation : dress standards of a person working at the highest levels of large corporations .
22 At each stage in the cascade information about the retinal location of the input is lost and is replaced with information about the properties of the stimulus object until , at the highest levels in the system , the identity of the object or objects is encoded .
23 The two cell types that express GGF mRNA at the highest levels are motor neurons and primary sensory neurons .
24 His success in being accepted at the highest levels of the League enabled him to provide graphic accounts of their meetings and organization .
25 Contrary to left-wing and anti-fascist claims , the police at the highest levels were not biased in favour of fascism , even if there were problems of interpretation of the law in developing conflict situations at the street level amongst the junior ranks and local magistrates treated anti-fascists more harshly than fascists .
26 However , UI chief Peter Cunningham , speaking from the dais , alluded to discussions that were being held at the highest levels and suggested that they were very close to some sort of agreement .
27 Even at the highest levels of disability the majority with these problems are resident in the community .
28 He has not visited the cliff , but questions the Frenchman 's ability to climb at the highest levels .
29 At every stage of the interchurch process we were hearing voices saying to us it is not sufficient that there should be fellowship , agreement , companionship , cooperation at the highest levels but it had to be found at every level , it had to be found at grass roots level .
30 The possibility of an encounter with their descendants , and the inevitability of the conflict which would follow , was the recurring nightmare which disturbed sleep at the highest levels of the Imperium .
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