Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] level of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Overall levels of education and of skills are lower , our institutions are coping only fitfully with modern conditions and there is an unsafely low level of investment . |
| 2 | From the most general to the most specific levels of affinity these have been labelled ( i ) Sequential , ( ii ) Substantial , ( iii ) Integral , and ( iv ) Unitary affinity . |
| 3 | The House of Commons Estimates Committee in 1967 recognized this : no less than nine Whitehall departments were involved in a rather low level of activity . |
| 4 | Those in employment earn a relatively high income , but those out of work will continue to exist at rather low levels of unemployment benefit . |
| 5 | Much of this argumentation is , of course , concerned with very broad states of language , and , as I have pointed out , can apply only at a rather high level of generality , because it is likely that in EModE , as in PresE , there were varying conditioned allophones of /a/ ( perhaps some front and some back , or some low and some low-mid ) . |
| 6 | The reason for this is that Field 's New Tribe is imbued with the rather vague mission of transmitting ‘ Western techniques ’ to traditional societies and although this opens the door to many fascinating details about the structures of culture contact , it is at a rather high level of generality for explanatory purposes and it seriously underplays the role of the classes responsible for capitalist expansionism . |
| 7 | In this sense , and at a rather high level of abstraction , the very possibility within discourse of a historically located cultural field , marked by internally contradictory relations and hence by particularly difficult questions of causation and explanation , is part of the problematic of bourgeois society ; that is , it is internal to , and historically related to , a particular historical-social stage ( see Burke 1981 ) . |
| 8 | Emotional isolation is also manifested in a rather high level of insecurity in the relationships between husbands and wives . |
| 9 | Now I have been digressing and let me say quite clearly that I never knew the answer and I do not know it now , how the tremendously high level of morale was sustained , not just in the Pathfinders , but throughout the Command as a whole . |
| 10 | While this downswing will not be as sharp as the previous downturn ( in 1979-81 ) , not least given the very much lower level of inflation that we now have , a dull 1989 is bound to be followed by a difficult 1990 . ’ |
| 11 | This is no longer necessary ; fear for one 's personal safety is a much lower level of alarm . |
| 12 | Without such basic knowledge , you might gain some small insight into the sport , but at a much lower level of appreciation than if you had done some reading in advance . |
| 13 | Optimal scaffolding is that which promotes the highest level of functioning with the minimal level of support ; a child who is having difficulty in making herself understood may require a great deal of support ; a few minutes later that same child dealing with a different topic may become relatively fluent and require a much lower level of adult participation . |
| 14 | This is a much lower level of use than either Edinburgh or Glasgow , but in view of the standard of service observed on this occasion , it is impossible to say whether this usage figure represents lower demand , or merely laxity in control . |
| 15 | However , although this factor is important , it is unlikely to explain why default rates have risen so rapidly during 1990–91 compared with the early 1980s , given the much lower levels of inflation during the recent downturn . |
| 16 | This high level of growth is largely attributable to the current extremely low level of industrialisation . |
| 17 | The tyres contain only low levels of carbon and no dioxins ; potentially harmful products of burning tyres are to be recycled . |
| 18 | Because in their terms , the object of the control regime , is to force down aggregate levels of indebtedness , and there are mechanisms wi within which it works which do that . |
| 19 | Hypoglycaemia , the abnormally low levels of blood sugar that occur in insulin-dependant diabetics , produces dizziness , palpitations , confusion and visual problems . |
| 20 | It is not difficult to show that even an apparently high level of detail in a criterion does not specify the test items unequivocally . |
| 21 | Rather than accepting this rather pessimistic view of human nature , social scientists have suggested two other reasons for surveys reporting such apparently high levels of satisfaction . |
| 22 | Adults are at least able to acquire , even though this may not be at a sufficiently high level of competence . |
| 23 | The dynamic process generating endogenous economies of scale leads exchanges to compete by being first off the mark in a particular contract so as to achieve a sufficiently high level of trading , and consequently liquidity , and thereby low transactions costs for the traders in that contract . |
| 24 | Apparently this level of failure in major projects to achieve expectations extends across all sectors of the economy and is especially prevalent in ‘ soft ’ projects such as the development of new IT ( ah ! that 's where DP went ! ) systems and organisational change . |
| 25 | Tests revealed that he had abnormally high levels of insulin in his blood , which could only have been injected . |
| 26 | The behaviour of these fragmented monopolies is unlikely to be affected by abnormally high levels of unemployment . |
| 27 | The achievement of a highly reliable level of software management is currently the most important step that must be taken towards overall control of software production , configuration and issue . |
| 28 | The argument now is that , in order to finance welfare provision , governments have imposed unjustifiably high levels of taxation , which have hindered investment and reduced productivity , encouraged the brain drain and increased inflation . |
| 29 | I suspect that your desire to write a letter about beating children reflects an especially high level of interest in the subject . |
| 30 | Glass says he has a naturally high level of production . |