Example sentences of "[vb -s] at the [adj] level " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 Moreover , this skilled incompetence not only operates at the individual level , it permeates the entire organisational culture as well .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 Again , if the speaker 's lowest pitch is reached before the end of the tail , the pitch continues at the bottom level .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 That distribution system fails at the bureaucratic level and in terms of the direct transport available .
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