Example sentences of "[adv prt] to a [adj] level " in BNC.

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1 But McGrath , who has had eight operations on his knees , revealed this could be his swansong , saying : ‘ I will decide at the end of the season , but I 'd rather quit at the top than drop down to a lower level , and the knees cause me a lot of pain .
2 The methods of purification by flocculation and filtration that are employed will usually bring the colour down to a low level .
3 We had a strong improvement in operating cash generation and that and the sale of brought net debt down to a low level .
4 In moving the motion this time I 'm not going to be very passionate like I normally am on on subjects in this council chamber I 'm I 'm actually gon na try and keep , I 'm actually going to try and keep politics down to a low level and er because I believe there conscience on all sides of this chamber .
5 And their arousal is so intense that if the owl finally departs they will still go on mobbing for a long while afterwards , as though they can not calm down to a normal level of activity until some considerable time has passed .
6 He fills it up , and cooks for himself , and when it gets down to a certain level then he thinks , ‘ now I might do a concert ’ .
7 for me meeting with Jim was to say , yes , that 's fine but if at the end of the day we have to train down to a certain level within our group , there 's no way can we afford five man-days of lost fees and fifteen hundred pounds .
8 As tread depth gets down to a certain level , the efficiency of the tyre reduces .
9 We managed to decrease the noise by backing off the low-mid rumble point and the 11kHz hiss by about 13dB , but to attenuate the DI output down to a reasonable level we 'd have had to use a separate DI box , and that means making up a special XLR-to-jack lead .
10 An efficient maximum/minimum thermometer is essential for keeping a check on the heating and to assess whether ventilation and shading are adequate to keep day temperatures down to a reasonable level .
11 He may however wish to go down to a detailed level , in which a sub-component of the domain is specified as having a fixed or moving relationship to a component or primitive of another domain , such as one " slotted into " the other .
12 Lifted up to a new level and a new nearness to our Lord Jesus Christ .
13 Grants to the colleges of advanced technology made at the time of their transition to university status brought the college library stocks up to a similar level .
14 Thus , the enterochromaffin like cell density , histamine content and histidine decarboxylase activity of the oxyntic mucosa all increased with increasing gastrin dose up to a maximal level at a gastrin concentration in the same range as found for the maximal histamine releasing and acid stimulatory effect of gastrin .
15 But Pauline Mitchell , head of Housing at Darlington Council , said that repairs were normally carried out in council houses up to a reasonable level before letting .
16 To obtain the correct r.m.s. value of a small sinusoidal signal through use of a circuit such as that shown in figure 7.1(b) , the signal must first be electronically amplified by a known factor up to a suitable level .
17 Is he aware that , in Renfrew district , the council estimates that , during the next five years , it will need £300 million to bring houses up to a tolerable level ?
18 A shipowner whose liability is automatically assumed up to a certain level , and strictly limited above that , will have less incentive to avoid a costly spill .
19 Income seems more closely related to whether or not people have ever used any form of credit than any other characteristic : the higher someone 's income ( at least up to a certain level ) , the more likely they are to have used at least some sort of credit sometime .
20 This registration procedure is part of the Museum and Galleries Commission work to ensure that all Museums come up to a certain level of competence , and to ensure the future well being of their collections .
21 In conclusion , the present study indicates that there is an increasing enterochromaffin like cell density with increasing gastrin concentration up to a certain level , and increasing the gastrin concentration above this level does not lead to further hyperplasia .
22 So we 're trying to bring everyone up to a certain level in certain selected topics — aspects of mechanics , heat , wave motion .
23 Well the , the er the Guilds I can speak now because I 've been up to a higher level , I 've been on the section and Birmingham is a very big area .
24 A territorial sunbird can time its visits to a particular flower such that its nectar has built up to a high level .
25 Rents needed to be brought up to a realistic level , housing stock modernized , particularly in some of the rundown areas of Kennington , and surplus sold off , without souring relations with his tenants .
26 VR2 enables the reverberation level to be varied from zero , up to a maximum level which is comparable to that of the straight-through signal .
27 Larger systems would probably be covered by the initiative where gain one-third of the cost will be covered up to a maximum level of grant of £5,000 .
28 Eastern winds have brought what had been fair sport back to a normal level for the time of year .
29 It 's getting back to a sensible level again , and the music — especially the British music — is really pushing forward . ’
30 Frejji 's voice , making me jump , jolted my headache up on to a new level .
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