Example sentences of "at a level " in BNC.
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| 1 | Quantity in this sense , duration , is what musicians and musical composers are continually concerned with ; and so it is not surprising that poets of this way of thinking , like Pound and Bunting , show themselves avidly interested in poetry which has been , not at a level of theory but as a fact of performance , intimately associated with music : poetry that has been set , or has been written in the hope of being set , to music . |
| 2 | They are undoubtedly right that it has now become clear that the Government will not pay for the expansion it desires at a level which will protect high quality . |
| 3 | At a level where either the commander concerned or the typist could not render ‘ Marxist ’ correctly in Russian , it seems doubtful whether rejoicing for the Paris Commune would be very well informed or sincere . |
| 4 | But , by the end of the 1980s , while a larger and larger proportion of the female population was in employment , it was seldom employment at a level of high command , and often not of a permanent kind . |
| 5 | The advances would be at a level which enables the artist to live and concentrate on improving his or her writing skills . |
| 6 | Discovery of Conradian horror beneath polite society , rediscovery of an Original Sin which burdened savage and citizen equally , connecting them however much the latter might politely protest , left unredeemed modern humanity at a level as terrible as that of primitives trapped in their cycle of fertility rites . |
| 7 | Production systems will have to be intensified in ways which do not deplete fertility ; areas which are now under-populated will have to be used more productively ; the organizations which serve small farmers , including relevant agricultural research institutes , will have to be strengthened ; and finally , agricultural prices will have to be maintained at a level which provides an incentive . |
| 8 | The upper floors of the storage shed were also at inconvenient levels and the discovery of wholesale decay in this joisted construction supported a policy of removing these elements and replacing them with a new upper-floor set at a level which could be extended into the roundels to give adequate headroom in the new ground-storey rooms , while ensuring that the four upper-storey bedrooms located in these projections had a sufficiently deep vertical wall surface to accommodate conventional windows . |
| 9 | In this way , the new upper floor is prevented from crossing the original three-light arched windows which serve the end bays of the lower storey , and the stair is prevented from conflicting with the central window of this range by the introduction of a further quarter-landing at an intermediate level that turns its lowest flight parallel to the side elevation at a level just below the window-sill ( Fig 49 ) . |
| 10 | Entering the third year of the Intifada , it is more than ever clear that time is of the essence : how to keep it going long enough at a level which does not yield to the temptations of ruinous , reciprocal escalation , but still disturbs the outside world enough to get them to bring the Israeli extremists to heel . |
| 11 | RJR 's credit rating is being ruined by junk bonds whose interest rates are supposed to be reset by May 1991 at a level that restores them to 100% of their issue prices . |
| 12 | With those I returned at speed to the boathouse and attacked the lower door , first hammering the toe of the tyre lever into a nonexistent crack between the wooden door frame and the surrounding brickwork at a level just below the keyhole , then bashing the far end of that iron , to put heavy leverage against the door frame , then wrenching out the lever and repeating the whole process above the lock , this time with fury . |
| 13 | My friends were chatting to Sean Murphy , his beady eyes and Guinness-fringed lips at a level with Rozanov 's chest . |
| 14 | All those concerned need to believe that the targets are being set at a level which is achievable . |
| 15 | He had done what was hoped of him , always , had four A's at A Level , a First , a PhD . |
| 16 | Three subjects were taken at A level and they were usually taken as packages of closely related studies : physics , chemistry , and mathematics ; French , German , and English ; history , geography , and economics . |
| 17 | As for the children of the unskilled workers , relatively few of them secured entry in the first place , and even those tended to do badly : only one in twenty survived to enter for two subjects at A level . |
| 18 | In the case of the GCE , both at O and at A level , maximum possible marks were allocated to each question on the examination papers before the papers were written , and there were cut-off points in total marks , determining the different grades . |
| 19 | Medical and veterinary faculties ( for which the competition was high , the numbers limited ) could lay down that candidates would not be considered unless they got high grades in physics , chemistry and biology at A level . |
| 20 | Moreover , since it came to be accepted by many schools that a pupil could not study these separate subjects at A level unless he or she had already studied them at O level ( although in the 1950s it had been intended that O levels should be ‘ bypassed ’ by those who would study a subject at A level ) the domination of the university faculties began when a pupil was 14 . |
| 21 | Moreover , since it came to be accepted by many schools that a pupil could not study these separate subjects at A level unless he or she had already studied them at O level ( although in the 1950s it had been intended that O levels should be ‘ bypassed ’ by those who would study a subject at A level ) the domination of the university faculties began when a pupil was 14 . |
| 22 | In any case , if any of the pupils are to go on with the language at A level , they will simply have to learn some grammar at some stage . |
| 23 | It has in the past been notorious that a pupil in an English school , having learned French for seven years , and having even passed at grade A at A level , may yet be unable to utter more than a few halting sentences , and be hardly able to follow a simple conversation with a native speaker . |
| 24 | Partly because of Treasury pressure to limit the overall cost of the scheme and partly due to ageist assumptions concerning the needs of older people , the National Insurance pension was set at a level of bare subsistence rather than adequate maintenance . |
| 25 | There is provision for Member States to pay at a level above the stated maximum in order ‘ to improve or maintain the natural landscape ’ but such increased payments will not be eligible for EEC refund so are very unlikely to be implemented . |
| 26 | The cry of the human infant ( and this effect applies especially if it is one 's own ) is pitched at a level , and varied in such a way , as to be nigh impossible to ignore or get used to . |
| 27 | Despite the relative strength of the economy , apartheid ideology and economic policies have kept the majority of the population living in poverty , at a level more comparable to the countries of Central America than to that of the affluent South African whites . |
| 28 | Any objective should be challenging or , in other words , pitched at a level of achievement where you are going to have to strive to pull it off ( and have deserved feelings of satisfaction if you succeed ) . |
| 29 | At the University , students are encouraged to take part in a sport or recreational activity of their choice and at a level which brings pleasure and satisfaction , whatever their ability or commitment . |
| 30 | It is always important to tell children the truth , in a way and at a level that they can accept . |