Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] to [adj] level " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the time of Stalin 's death , some two years before the signing of the Treaty , the USSR 's European clients maintained at Soviet behest over 1.5 million men under arms ( half again as many as today ) , supervised by thousands of Soviet ‘ advisers ’ posted down to regimental level and , particularly in Hungary and Poland , by Soviet Commanders in East European uniform . |
| 2 | We are also told that wage increases have to come down to German levels , and there has been some movement in that direction . |
| 3 | Firemen took to boats to reach those trapped in their homes as water rose up to door-top level . |
| 4 | one pound for every two over the limit , and you 're abated back to this level of allowance . |
| 5 | Then gradually the person 's level of anxiety will fall back to normal levels from point B in Figure 4.8 . |
| 6 | Blackgrass has built up to such levels in some of its traditional heavyland haunts that some cereal growers are now reporting severe problems in controlling it . |
| 7 | The corny raucousness which ensued of course meant that the television volume had to be turned up to window-shaking levels so that the happy couple could savour the exquisitely enunciated phrasing of Arnold Schwarzenegger 's lines over the noise of their munching . |
| 8 | The Prime Minister and every member of the government wants to hold fare increases down to reasonable levels and I 'm pleased that er at six percent average , that 's a reasonable contribution by the travelling passenger on British Rail and London Transport to the enormous investment sums that are required . |
| 9 | At thirty quid , all but 5p , I originally thought the package was a wee bit overpriced — I 'd have said £20 was a better price point for it , but then I expect that it will be discounted down to that level anyway . |
| 10 | mm , well we 've been told this with Simon , you know needs to get to standard with them , with maths in particularly , before he goes up to secondary level you know because |
| 11 | This natural gas , formed from uranium and radium , seeps out of the ground — in Cornwall it actually comes through the granite — and can build up to cancer-inducing levels if measures are not taken to deal with it properly . |
| 12 | Unlike negotiation , consultation procedures do not generally allow disagreements to be referred up to higher levels of the machinery ; once the formal consultation has taken place , management may implement its measures with or without agreement . |
| 13 | Because you know both parties were there to make sure that er there was going to be a mutual agreement or it may in some instances be referred back to domestic level for resolution , or alternately , the employers just said , no and that , that was the end of it at that stage . |
| 14 | There a new realism and prices are coming down to sensible levels . |
| 15 | In any case she thinks it is just a matter of time before more women start coming through to senior levels , both because the company is taking on more female graduates and because they are a pretty self-confident lot anyway . |
| 16 | During the duty period the solicitor has to be available all the time to provide advice over the telephone or at the police station , and receives a standby payment , up to half of which is deducted if advice is provided up to that level of work . |
| 17 | For each attainment target there are statements of attainment which define up to ten levels of attainment specifying what pupils should know , understand and be able to do , appropriate for pupils of different ages and abilities . |
| 18 | You can have up to eight levels of bullets . |
| 19 | All foreign branches seem to have been closed for financial reasons in 1891–1892 , but Wilson , after the refloating of the union in 1894 , persisted in his international endeavours , establishing new branches in Hamburg , Rotterdam and Antwerp in the following year and an agency in New York , and accepting the logic of the shipowners ' often repeated argument that British claims to higher pay would be more convincing if foreign rates were brought up to British levels . |
| 20 | It is power that is going to ensure go down to that level of decision making , to those people who know the problems best and would be able to deliver the right solutions . |
| 21 | This option can accommodate package structures up to 20 levels deep , and the scrolled area can display up to 20 package names . |
| 22 | The other use of concealed logicals is to enable you to have VMS directory structures deeper than 8 levels — but you can still only go up to 16 levels , as described below . |
| 23 | We must reach out to all levels of society and to all ages . |
| 24 | It follows from the above account of the expectations-augmented Phillips curve that in the short-run , both Y and P rise ( and unemployment falls ) , but that in the long-run , unemployment returns to the NUP and Y falls back to that level associated with the NUP . |
| 25 | The idea was that , if the government simply ‘ announced ’ that the rate of inflation in the coming year would be such and such , and reduced the rate of interest in line with that forecast , public expectations would adjust accordingly , and the rate of inflation would come down to that level . |
| 26 | She would not dispute the fact that , by contrast , the Bundesbank is very good indeed at it , nor that since inflation-prone countries , such as France and Italy , joined the Deutschmark-dominated ERM their inflation rates have been forced down to German levels . |
| 27 | never thought I 'd get down to this level . |
| 28 | We want to affiliate her in horse classes — I know she wo n't be able to manage lengthened strides very easily because of her conformation , but we hope we 'll get up to Medium level . ’ |
| 29 | Do you think that perhaps this is going to be difficult and , if we do n't get back to those levels , then presumably you have to encourage local British people to , to make up the leeway so speak , because if you do n't it means hotels , restaurants , all kinds of businesses , could be in difficulty . |
| 30 | Near Pantelleria the formation was fired on , so dived down to low level where Plt.Off . |