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

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1 Basic to the idea of a level is the implication that a higher level goes beyond a lower level by including it , gathering it up and building on it .
2 If the speed of the car drops below a certain level because the driver is driving in peak hour congested traffic , the smart card will start deducting units .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 A critical point is then reached after which a patient will either die from the disease , or survive if the parasites are killed and parasitaemia returns to a manageable level .
6 The issue responds to the high levels of concern among communicators concerning the propaganda and various shades of ‘ truth ’ that filled both the electronic and print media during the war .
7 There are also penalties that will apply if the proportion falls below a particular level .
8 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 .
9 The ad works at a subconscious level too .
10 As Cixous suggests , the mode of knowledge as a politics of arrogation pivots at a theoretical level on the dialectic of the same and the other .
11 The incumbent 's output starts at a high level and gradually declines , whilst the entrants ' output starts low and gradually increases the more it discovers about the market .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 Prof. Tom Thomas , chairman of the polytechnic 's research degrees committee , said : ‘ This is a crucial signal because it demonstrates that the work of the polytechnic extends to the highest levels of scholarship .
15 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 .
16 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 . ’
17 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 " .
18 It is possible to include in the wording of the Deed that the covenant will cease if certain conditions occur — for example , if you become unemployed or your income falls below a certain level .
19 Each element of a hierarchy occurs at a particular level .
20 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 .
21 Since 1981 , however , as an authority 's total spending rises above a standard level , set by central government for each individual authority , the proportion of additional expenditure met by the centre drops , thereby placing a heavier burden on local rates and deterring increased expenditure .
22 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 .
23 Capital expenditure continues at a high level , amounting to £54.9 million which compares with depreciation of £31.2 million .
24 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 .
25 That distribution system fails at the bureaucratic level and in terms of the direct transport available .
26 The problem begins at a conceptual level with the initial division between master and slave as such , as if relations of power work according to the binary opposition of Hegel 's fight to the death between two individuals .
27 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 .
28 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 .
29 This section reverts to a finer level of detail because it includes hitherto unpublished material .
30 Again , if the speaker 's lowest pitch is reached before the end of the tail , the pitch continues at the bottom level .
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