Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] the [adj] level " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . ’ |
| 2 | The " something " which is said is called by Guillaume an " import of meaning " ( 1984 : 120 – 2 ) and corresponds on the linguistic level to the lexeme or non-grammatical part of the word 's meaning . |
| 3 | Much depends upon the general level of employment . |
| 4 | 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 ) ? |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The organisation 's long-term viability , Corley allowed , depends on the continuing level of interest . |
| 7 | The organisation 's long-term viability , Corley allowed , depends on the continuing level of interest . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The manager , in turn , responds on the psychological level with : ‘ Yes I recognize my wisdom and will be happy to give you advice . ’ |
| 10 | The passages , with their oak panelling and thick woollen carpets are dark and gloomy ; so is the Jacobean staircase which divides at the upper level , making it easy to lose one 's way . |
| 11 | [ If the balance in your PEP falls below £500 you will be given the option to withdraw the full balance or add to it so that it rises above the minimum level ] . |
| 12 | Therefore the simple conflict between accumulation and unproductive consumption which appears at the micro level may be transformed into its opposite at the macro level . |
| 13 | ‘ Diligence ’ refers to the expected level of active engagement in company affairs . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The bank is then free to expand its lending until the ratio again falls to the critical level . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Once the countries to be compared have been selected , much of the analysis often focuses on the national level , in the form of comparative macro studies , which are sometimes extended to include industry-level comparisons . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Moreover , this skilled incompetence not only operates at the individual level , it permeates the entire organisational culture as well . |
| 22 | Government policy in the 1980s has been to oppose any increase in the country 's dollar debt , which remains at the manageable level of $5.5 million . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Again , if the speaker 's lowest pitch is reached before the end of the tail , the pitch continues at the bottom level . |
| 25 | What Sartre needs to demonstrate , therefore , is that if the law of the dialectic works from the individual level , overall it produces nothing less than the intelligibility or the meaning of History as such : |
| 26 | The difference between these tax bases arises at the practical level in that some things are more easily measured as a stock than as a flow , for example the value of a painting . |
| 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 | Natural selection ( which , after all , works at the genic level ) favours the segregation distorter , even though its effects at the level of the individual organism are likely to be bad . |
| 29 | That distribution system fails at the bureaucratic level and in terms of the direct transport available . |