Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] to the level " in BNC.
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| 1 | We can not therefore budget down to the level of the individual patient . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | A world leader with the security industry is actually going down to the levels of the one man and a dog outfit . |
| 7 | The operative principle should therefore be one of a ‘ retributive maximum , as advocated by Norval Morris ( 1974 : 75 ) : while an individual offender may be punished up to the level indicated by the tariff , there is no obligation to do so if other valid considerations indicate that a more lenient course will be more constructive or humane . |
| 8 | She stepped down to the level . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ? |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | In compulsory competitive tendering the Government are merely bringing up the rear and ensuring that local authorities that have not yet taken advantage of those techniques are brought up to the level of the best . |
| 13 | The idea was that , by raising the standards of these deprived areas , the children in them would be brought up to the levels of those in more privileged communities , and would then be able to compete with them on equal terms later in their educational careers . |
| 14 | After the kick is executed the kicking foot is brought back to the level of the supporting leg 's knee and then down to the floor . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . ’ |
| 17 | The pegs went up to the level of the bottom of the big dome . |
| 18 | I you see you 're not exceeding what the government is establishing as your target level , you 're falling short of that , and that means that some people will not get services that they would get if you had gone up to the level . |
| 19 | ‘ 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 ’ . |
| 20 | The wheel pit still exists although this has now been concreted up to the level of the existing floor . |
| 21 | He felt he needed to rebuild the relationship — not , of course , to revive it as a total marriage , but to get back to the level of intermittent companionship which seemed to have gone . |
| 22 | I mean he was saying look we 're going to go out and we 're going to market Britain to the overseas visitors and they do bring a lot of money into this country , but I mean are we really going to get back to the levels that we 've seen in recent years ? |
| 23 | The fact that she has fought back to the level that she has now attained is a tribute to the loving care , encouragement and inspiration given her by her parents . |
| 24 | The deployment of a relatively big budget and the use of a really big screen ( Cinerama in major cities , Super Panavision 70 where projection facilities were available ) , together with a show of ‘ serious ’ ideas comparable to printed sci-fi , raised the status of the whole genre , and it has never since sunk back to the level of , say , stalk-and-slash movies in critical regard . |
| 25 | With the comic appearance of this modern barbarian the resolutely physical takes over ; we move back to the level of the naked man with no interest in the ‘ polymath ’ . |
| 26 | Elections were to be contested up to the level of Dáil Éireann when the movement had built up sufficient support . |
| 27 | In a large fenced-off security zone , drums pile up to the level of a two storey house . |