Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] the [adj] level " in BNC.

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1 The move was seen as an attempt to bolster the falling level of public support for his administration by addressing the two crucial issues of national unity and the economy .
2 The three elements of such a strategy are a remedial programme to bring the general level of primary care up to national standards , a programme to provide such services to people with non-standard needs such as ethnic minorities and the homeless , and the development of an expanded model of primary care .
3 Even with the present set-up , their seemed reasonable recruitment figures overall but few stayed the course to reach the upper levels of racing achievement creating what was described as ‘ a meatless sandwich . ’
4 But if the help is always delayed , we have the capacity to provide the necessary level of safety for our nuclear stations ourselves " , noted Erik Pozdyshev , head of Rosatomenergo , the Russian nuclear-power company .
5 Jack used all his skill to keep the Vimy level , one bump and Brown would slip on the ice-covered Vimy and plunge to the ocean below .
6 But timber consumption continues to exceed growth rate and , in a move to break this cycle , China is to execute a plan to reduce the present level of consumption and limit the use of timber for the next five years .
7 It is the ambition of those who seek a ‘ real pain'-measuring machine that they should be able to bypass the mind and discover some measuring instrument , a dolorimeter , the equivalent of a thermometer , which could be dipped into the body to measure the true level of pain without reference to that unreliable but verbal witness , the mind .
8 include : memory changes behavioural changes incapacity to deal with financial matters pandering aggression paranoia damage to property ( fire , flooding ) lack of cleanliness or hygiene 3. identification may be made by : concerned family or friends caring or complaining neighbours housing officials ( required to deal with " antisocial " behaviour or nonpayment of rent ) police environmental health officers health professionals social worker lawyer creditors ( eg private landlords ) 3.4 There is a need to raise the general level of awareness of the general public and all professional groups about dementia .
9 The years 1917–21 had been devoted chiefly to the legitimization of the regime , whereas the stress from 1922 until 1926 lay on the urgent need to raise the cultural level of the population .
10 While denying the importance of industrial training as the ‘ principal ’ remedy for unemployment , he looked to technical education to raise the general level of skill ‘ from which men start ’ , as well as to divert juvenile labour ( which he described as ‘ adaptable ’ ) into new and growing trades .
11 Traditional Keynesian analysis required government to intervene in the economy to affect the total level of demand for goods and services , and to ensure that this level was high enough to be consistent with full employment and not so high that inflation was generated or a balance of payments crisis precipitated .
12 If that happened , the CAA would have the authority to set the maximum level of airport charges for each . ’
13 It is not anyone 's wish to reduce the overall level of money available to provide for the needs of people with dementia .
14 The Trust makes no commitment to improve the serious levels of low pay .
15 FRESH legislation to curb the growing level of foreign ownership in American industry should be avoided , a study from the prestigious Washington-based Institute for International Economics has warned .
16 For a public good-the consumption of which is defined over geographic subsets of the total population and for which the costs of providing each level of output of the good in each jurisdiction are the same for the central government or the respective local government — it will always be more efficient or at least as efficient for local government to provide the Pareto-efficient levels of output for their respective jurisdictions than for central government to provide any specified and uniform level of output across all jurisdictions .
17 Those of you familiar with car radios where you press ‘ vol ’ ‘ treble ’ ‘ bass ’ ‘ bal ’ or ‘ fade ’ and then use a single infinitely rotating knob to set the required levels , will know exactly how to operate the JMP-1 .
18 The Conservative party was elected in 1979 on a promise to reduce the overall level of taxation and , in addition , to shift the burden of tax to some extent from income ( direct tax ) to expenditure ( indirect tax ) .
19 In conjunction with the Master Innholders with whom it is closely associated , the Worshipful Company has commissioned Gayton Consultancy to undertake a survey to assess the current levels of training received by management .
20 Most governments manipulated tax rates and government expenditure to influence the overall level of spending in the economy .
21 The change to cash planning arose , in part , because estimates in constant prices implied that cash had to be provided , regardless of the rise in prices , in order to maintain the agreed levels of services in real terms .
22 Further work needs to be carried out in order to improve the present level of constitutional , decentralized and resource concepts of accountability .
23 The following year , a multi-skilled , integrated team headed by Garrick Mound , of Subsurface , challenged all aspects of the reservoir understanding and mode of access in order to achieve the desired level of increased performance and productivity.All subsurface disciplines revisited the reservoir model to establish a realistic and robust understanding of the reservoir quality distribution and its uncertainties .
24 Risk control is the process of implementing the outputs of the previous stages in order to achieve the desired level of risk , initially in the decision making phase of a project , and subsequently throughout the rest of the project life cycle .
25 Indeed , it could be argued that it would not have been possible to allow greater competition without changes in regulation to counteract the increased levels of risk that comes with more intense competition .
26 Simply by selecting those substances in impure water which are to be held potentially ‘ polluting ’ ( pollution parameters ) and the point at which such contamination is to be regarded as ‘ polluting ’ ( pollution limits ) , together with temperature and volume restrictions , the agency establishes theoretically enforceable boundaries , exercising , in other words , power to control the potential level of pollution .
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