Example sentences of "[adv] high level of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 ) . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | 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 ) . |
4 | Emotional isolation is also manifested in a rather high level of insecurity in the relationships between husbands and wives . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | It is not difficult to show that even an apparently high level of detail in a criterion does not specify the test items unequivocally . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | Adults are at least able to acquire , even though this may not be at a sufficiently high level of competence . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | Tests revealed that he had abnormally high levels of insulin in his blood , which could only have been injected . |
11 | The behaviour of these fragmented monopolies is unlikely to be affected by abnormally high levels of unemployment . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | I suspect that your desire to write a letter about beating children reflects an especially high level of interest in the subject . |
14 | Glass says he has a naturally high level of production . |
15 | When we are talking about directors of businesses , er particularly the larger companies , good people are hard to find and some of them are superstars , and er I know we 've heard a lot about er exceedingly high levels of pay and very high pay increases , er but when you talk about the superstars and megastars , what about the entertainment business , what about sport , what about , you know , golfing celebrities , earning in excess of a million , or racing drivers ? |
16 | This is especially true if you are playing a sport such as squash , where an extremely high level of stamina is needed right from the very beginning . |
17 | Hamburg enjoys an extremely high level of film subsidy - approximately £6 million a year , or three times the sum available in Britain . |
18 | Why , given the extremely high level of unemployment , was the government constantly making public its efforts in the training area ? |
19 | The cost of land drainage or irrigation , buildings and other fixed capital equipment , machinery and livestock means that a farm business has an extremely high level of capitalisation relative to the returns which can be obtained . |
20 | We are committed to improving the already extremely high level of railway safety . |
21 | The Faculty has an extremely high level of research activity , and is one of the largest recipients in Britain of ESRC and other Research Council funds . |
22 | To nobody 's surprise , they discovered extremely high levels of anaemia , diabetes , bronchial disorder and child deaths — which might have been the result of poor diet , pollution and the general mess of the Soviet economy . |
23 | Anticipating extremely high levels of anxiety , the person no longer encounters the original situation of the supermarket . |
24 | A special innovation in both mammals and birds was homoiothermy , warm-bloodedness , which allows a constantly high level of activity that is not dependent upon the temperature of the environment . |
25 | In the United Kingdom many midwives , obstetricians , and mothers would consider this an unacceptably high level of intervention in an otherwise normal physiological process . |
26 | The location was unusual : the consulting room of a medical specialist where I was to learn the cause of the unacceptably high level of pain from which my sister has suffered for the past five years . |
27 | Thames blamed unacceptably high levels of pesticide use by farmers , local authorities and British Rail for its poor showing . |
28 | Because , perhaps surprisingly to its critics , the survey reveals lawyers are achieving an impressively high level of client satisfaction . |
29 | This may help them assess the range of teaching quality within the school , on the assumption that a generally high level of provision across the week for a given class will tend to produce better attendance and vice versa . |
30 | This found not only a generally high level of support for the police , but that this spread throughout the class structure ( indeed was marginally higher in the working class ) . |