Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] at a [adj] level " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have not successfully rolled back the frontiers of the state in Britain , only to see them reimposed at a European level , with a European superstate exercising a new dominance from Brussels . |
| 2 | One notable effect the alternative social format contained lay in the assault upon the senses which occurred at a pragmatic level . |
| 3 | A group is a lesser thing than a team , which performs at a higher level of cohesion than a mere group needs to ( see Teams on page 161 ) . |
| 4 | Voluntary organisations which operate at a regional level would be severely disadvantaged by the proposals in the White Paper . |
| 5 | Yet Lord Burghley , Master of the Wards from 1561 to 1598 , made no attempt to exploit this revenue to the full : his period of control witnessed an immediate fall in the court 's income , which remained at a low level until his son took over . |
| 6 | An advantage of this slender branch byway , which runs at a higher level than the main road , is the splendid panorama it affords of the encircling hills : across the valley the distant double-topped Frostrow merges in the long whaleback skyline of Rise Hill ; at the head is Great Knoutberry Hill carrying the railway ; rising to the left are the lower slopes of Whernside , succeeded by Great Coum beyond the gap of Deepdale , and finally Middleton Fell closes the horizon . |
| 7 | I have seen some fine players who compete at a high level bring in another line , between the service line and the baseline . |
| 8 | They lived at a low level of amenity for , even if they had had the wealth and knowledge to run a specialized judiciary or a hospital service , they resisted the organizational and constitutional consequences of such institutions . |
| 9 | The key point is that the old , regulated financial systems stopped people from borrowing as much as they wanted at a given level of interest rates . |
| 10 | Kuypers was the first to use this technique in studies of the brain and over the next 10 years , now in the United States , he charted at a new level of detail the connections made by the cerebral cortex with nervous elements in the brain-stem and spinal cord that control movement in a number of higher mammals . |
| 11 | There is an alternative route which is longer and involves slightly more climbing , but it stays at a lower level , never rising higher than 1,600ft . |
| 12 | A further refinement found on some models is ‘ exposure lock ’ by means of which the exposure can he preset at a particular level and held through a shot — we shall consider the reasons for wishing to do this later ( see Chapter 5 ) . |
| 13 | Unlike offices , the level of income fluctuates although sometimes over a longer period it fluctuates at a higher level than commercial . |
| 14 | This bias was particularly strong during our Pre-Campaign Wave in March when Prime Minister Thatcher visited Moscow but it continued at a reduced level throughout the final campaign . |
| 15 | Second , just as Dear 's image of a few hundred ‘ young black criminals ’ was used to explain what happened in Handsworth , the problem of drugs was used to explain what happened at a national level . |