Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] [prep] the [adj] level " in BNC.

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1 While individual trusts are to be encouraged , their success in the long term depends on the continuing level of commitment , and above all drive , on the part of the trustees .
2 The level of CO2 in their blood falls below the normal level , and this alters the pH ( acidity-alkalinity ) of the blood , producing a wide range of mental and physical symptoms .
3 Steg needs every trick in the book-worm to make sure that his sprogs are fed — at which point our horrid hero moves to the next level and faces the same problems again .
4 The difference between these tax bases arises at the practical level in that some things are more easily measured as a stock than as a flow , for example the value of a painting .
5 The interesting , though not necessarily plausible , feature of this result is that firms know that when the price falls below the critical level this is due to a random shock , because they know it pays no one to cheat , but nevertheless they must still go into the punishment phase to enforce the collusive agreement .
6 Note that in this case if the Bank of England uses open-market operations to reduce the money supply , the official intention may be frustrated as long as the banks ' cash reserves ratio remains above the desired level .
7 If , on reaching the lowest level , the points have not been re-aligned positively , with a set tolerance , the procedure returns to the highest level and successively provides a rotational correction down through the system again .
8 Hence when blood sugar drops below the required level the body sends out signals which are interpreted by the mind as ‘ I am feeling hungry . ’
9 First , discussed in this chapter , is the procedure by which central government decides upon the total level of public expenditure it believes should be financed out of taxation .
10 Certainly it will be disappointing if the number of deaths due to paracetamol overdosage continues at the current level , but it would be wise to recognise that in 1990 in England and Wales there were a further 1593 deaths due to overdosage of medicines other than paracetamol and that the prevention of such deaths should receive at least equal attention .
11 That distribution system fails at the bureaucratic level and in terms of the direct transport available .
12 The method of enquiry employed in much of the work within the comparative field proceeds at the empirical level and arrives at more general conclusions through a process of inductive reasoning , or more ad hoc interpretive insights .
13 In this case , dependency moves from the primary level of food imports , to a secondary level of technical inputs , and then to a tertiary level of import substitution plants run by the TNCs .
14 Again , if the speaker 's lowest pitch is reached before the end of the tail , the pitch continues at the bottom level .
15 What Sartre needs to demonstrate , therefore , is that if the law of the dialectic works from the individual level , overall it produces nothing less than the intelligibility or the meaning of History as such :
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