Example sentences of "[verb] to [art] [adj] level [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Study of these various components of psychoticism as found in normal people has not been confined to the superficial level of observable traits , measured by questionnaires . |
| 2 | It was they whose immediate vision was one of attempting to escape from the grind of poverty , and whose children were confined to the lowest levels of education offered in the elementary schools and the secondary , or ‘ post-Hadow ’ , schools . |
| 3 | Failure to persuade medical staff of the adverse consequences on patient care should be reported to the next level of management . |
| 4 | Here also the opening and copying of letters was carried to a high level of professionalism . |
| 5 | We devote $300m of research and development expenditure exclusively to the systems division , which has annual revenues of $2,360m : that corresponds to an respectable level of 12% . ’ |
| 6 | Notice what happens to the general level of pitch after a pause , e.g. does a downward trend continue until the end of the utterance ( a ) ? , or , is there a return to a high pitch after each pause ( b ) ? |
| 7 | Rupert Murdoch 's mass circulation tabloid stooped to a new level of vicious scaremongering when it seemed that Neil Kinnock might just succeed in leading Labour back into government . |
| 8 | You will then find a master volume control on the amplifier that raises the whole ( balanced ) mix to the right level for that audience without affecting the balance of the individual sources . |
| 9 | The metal road that left the highway twisted between pine-clad hills for more than a mile before it dropped to the lower level of a wide plateau that stretched along the river cliffs . |
| 10 | A decision to use search is primarily dictated by the size of the population of candidates in the sector in question , related to the current level of demand . |
| 11 | The process of bonding is related to the instinctive level of life ; this instinctive level seeks to protect itself , and thus may often lie beyond the normal realms of consciousness . |
| 12 | It states that investment is positively related to the expected level of output and negatively related to the existing capital stock . |
| 13 | Sex might be more or less important to a person in later life , but the level would be higher or lower according to the general level of importance throughout adult years . |
| 14 | An even bigger obstacle to the successful introduction of legislative guide-lines in this country might be the existence of a number of different tariff ranges according to the different levels of court , to which we referred earlier . |
| 15 | An inquiry into the referral and suspension of Afro-Caribbean pupils from Birmingham schools recorded that they were almost four times more likely to be suspended from secondary schools as white pupils ; even when the main reason for expulsion was common to both white and black pupils , the latter were more likely to be suspended and the inquiry alluded to a considerable level of hostility , mistrust and ‘ cultural misunderstanding ’ as between black pupils and white teachers ( CRE , 1985 ; see also Driver , 1979 ) . |
| 16 | After passing a pier and following the water 's edge for a mile , the road climbs to a higher level at a hairpin bend to avoid the private Torridon estate and , amongst trees , reaches a bridge with an adjacent car park . |
| 17 | He was further hampered by sweat stinging his eyes , as the heat and smoke built to an intolerable level in the confined space of the small passage . |
| 18 | The answer , of course , depends upon the quantity rule that firms employ , in particular how they react to a higher level of demand than they were expecting . |
| 19 | Meanwhile , unemployment figures have risen to the highest level for more than five years . |
| 20 | No doubt the French World Cup director , Marcel Martin , could contribute to a new level of understanding and co-operation between the feuding neighbours . |
| 21 | It is hoped that the study 's findings will lead to recommendations on how British companies can improve their marketing effectiveness in a manner that will contribute to a greater level of industrial competitiveness . |
| 22 | When the components are well-practised , control passes to a higher level of organisation , and with reading , as we shall be arguing later , the highest level is the integration of word meanings in a comprehension " calculation " . |
| 23 | Much the same situation , although both a more productive and prolonged one , obtains in temperate woodland , where a great table of riches is spread every summer , declining to a low level of diminishing resources in the autumn . |
| 24 | It involves the selection of a zero-base which , confusingly , is rarely zero but may equate to a minimum level of service consistent with the law . |
| 25 | Energy conservation success in France is attributed to a high level of investment in energy saving as a result of a clear and highly visible policy and , as with nuclear power , centralised responsibility . |
| 26 | The parents may become very angry and frustrated , shouting and hitting the children , and adding to the general level of tension and disturbance . |
| 27 | Thus Chambers explains the similarities between Old and New World monkeys as due to life having advanced to the same level of organization from quite independent origins of life in the two hemispheres ( Hodge , 1972 ) . |
| 28 | The magistrates investigating the corruption involving all the major parties and business must feel rather like the apprentice : the arrest of the president of a Milan old people 's home a year ago , charged with accepting bribes , opened the flood-gates and precipitated the most far-reaching corruption investigations leading to the highest levels of politics and business . |
| 29 | The alternative path a-d , by just reaching the higher side of the cusp , leads to a high level of success . |
| 30 | In any surveying practice , labour is the key issue and since it is an expensive commodity it must be used to the highest level of productivity . |