Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] at [adj] level " in BNC.

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1 The Oxford Wordpower Dictionary heads the list this year and is designed to compete at intermediate level with the Longman Active Study and Cobuild Students Dictionary .
2 In fact , you do not actually need to price at that level ; the rival just has to believe that you will if it enters the market .
3 The argument outlined in Chapter 3 is that the long term interests of society are best served by a set of regulatory arrangements designed to deter at all levels the misuse of inside information .
4 Moreover , this normative process was felt to operate at several levels , from appointments , promotions and other career aspirations to the much more subtle everyday processes whereby individuals come to acquire a sense of their professional worth from the comments and valuations of ‘ significant others ’ advisers , advisory teachers and heads in particular .
5 In this chapter we have been concerned with interpreting patterns of variation in speech communities with reference to the norms that can be shown to exist at varying levels of abstraction and generality .
6 This tends to happen at several levels .
7 Councillors on authorities other than education authorities may be invited to participate at some level in educational administration and in the case of primary schools , district and parish councils may have rights in respect of appointing governors .
8 Writing the software was somewhat tedious , but having to work at this level did help the designers to get away from preconceptions about interaction which they might have had if they had been working within the input/output facilities provided by a conventional mini or mainframe operating system ( for example , that it needs a RETURN to terminate user input or that the operating system can properly handle the echoing of characters to the terminal ) .
9 The USA and IBM continue to lead at all levels — in supercomputers , in mainframes , in minis , and in micros ( IBM and Apple ) .
10 ‘ Though if he 's not selected , I shall downgrade him and Sally Newcombe will ride him because continuing to compete at that level is such an emotional strain on him ’ .
11 However , the approach in both methods is the same : first find what the group should do to maximise profits , then set a transfer price that encourages each divisional manager to decide to operate at that level .
12 Improved facilities for cyclists have started to happen at local level , largely because Lothian Region now has a 3-person cycle team , the existence of which was fought for , long and hard over many years .
13 He added that imports had to continue at competitive levels to safeguard jobs in the processing industry .
14 For example , if a researcher wants to investigate the factors that influence pupils when they are choosing the subjects they wish to study at higher levels of education , then group discussions with , for example , fourteen-year-old pupils in almost any secondary school would give some ideas about what questions to include in a questionnaire .
15 To keep clear of British radar and stay undetected , the bombers had to fly at low level and so never attained the necessary height .
16 Though the base grant for 1991–92 remained at C$8.5 million , nevertheless , the AGO continued to spend at 1990–91 levels , confident that the ministry would again come to the rescue .
17 I think that er one of the things that we had to examine at national level er and this was done erm after I became a full time officer , erm there 'd usually be a procedure in the national agreement er whereby first of all if we registered failure to agree at domestic level , erm with the management , the next stage was to draw in the district secretary .
18 If you eventually failed to agree at that level , then you would have to register failure to agree as you did in all other cases you know , leading up to that stage .
19 Halon production is only required to freeze at 1986 levels by 1992 ; no direct cuts are to be implemented .
20 To understand government policies concerning food , we need to look at nutritional levels and the quantity and nature of food production .
21 The difference between them is I have to admit at this level , relatively marginal in terms of er which is the worst and which is the best between the three .
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