Example sentences of "[adv prt] to the [adj] level [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Exports to China have slipped down to the 1987 levels after an artificial high in 1988 caused by the coincidence of a number of major orders . |
| 2 | Such round , smooth shapes are the perfect foil to the railway sleepers that are used as informal steps down to the lowest level of all , a curved brick paved sitting area that looks back up towards the house . |
| 3 | Bypassing the entrance to the huge living-room , which looked dim and shadowy in the faint glow from the circular night-lights sunk into the wooden-slat ceiling , she followed the passageway until she came to another flight of steps , which obviously led down to the lowest level of the house . |
| 4 | This implies that capital charges will go right down to the departmental level in the budgetary control system . |
| 5 | The fact that parts of Poland were virtually indistinguishable from parts of Germany in terms of social complexity , levels of absolute poverty and economic success , that the Polish szlachta and the German Junker had more in common with each other than they did with either Berliners or Warsawians , that the average Polish and German smallholders and peasants had more in common with each other than they did with their social betters and political masters — all this meant nothing , except perhaps to make the Germans more convinced that the Poles would eventually drag them down to the Polish level of degradation . |
| 6 | Training in skills such as singing or dancing often seems to involve not just acquiring technique , but opening a way through to the basic level of power so that it can ‘ fuel ’ the performance . |
| 7 | Blood sugar needs to be kept up to the correct level in order to allow both body and mind to function correctly , and the body is very clever at informing us of its requirements . |
| 8 | Maybe now their sugar levels are up to the right level for chitter-chatter . |
| 9 | And this ‘ vague altruism ’ apparently permeated up to the highest levels in government : for example , Neville Chamberlain , who had been a leading figure in the pre-war National Government 's denial of the problem of child malnutrition , was so shocked by the stories of the children 's condition that he commented to his sister , ‘ I never knew that such conditions existed , and I feel ashamed of having been so ignorant of my neighbours . |
| 10 | In so far as they secured a satisfactory response then they succeeded in lifting their own fiscal crisis up to the central level of the state . |
| 11 | For example , with a slightly higher capital stock the industry will then face the short-run marginal cost curve SMC 2 with constant marginal cost c up to the new level of full capacity Q 2 , after which marginal costs become vertical . |
| 12 | I mean most projects start with some introduction which is related to extant material , whether it 's fine art or fabric design or whatever , and then to analysing the basic level , as it were , up to the appropriate level for the age group . |
| 13 | The level of orders received in the first quarter worsened compared with a year earlier , but turnover in the first quarter was up to the high levels of the year-ago quarter . |
| 14 | Divide mixture between tins , so that it comes up to the same level in both . |
| 15 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that increasing expenditure on day one of a new Government while failing to deal with the important issue of taxation is the fastest way back to the high levels of inflation which characterised all Labour Governments ? |
| 16 | That heralded a sudden wave of institutional profit-taking-the first serious bout in two months — aggressively pushing the market back to the 2,650 level by late morning . |
| 17 | Probably because they had n't re-used they got there by two or three or four years time when they came on to the next level of management the junior management erm we did this with them again and you would begin to find certain skills had evolved and certain certain team strengths had arisen because they do change over the years . |