Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] level [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Overall levels of education and of skills are lower , our institutions are coping only fitfully with modern conditions and there is an unsafely low level of investment . |
| 2 | At VAG 's headquarters at Blakelands and their nearby training centre at Wymbush , the company will supply catering at the most prestigious level for executive visitors , a high quality staff restaurant and food hall , a sandwich bar , working lunches and 20 vending machines at both locations . |
| 3 | The House of Commons Estimates Committee in 1967 recognized this : no less than nine Whitehall departments were involved in a rather low level of activity . |
| 4 | Much of this argumentation is , of course , concerned with very broad states of language , and , as I have pointed out , can apply only at a rather high level of generality , because it is likely that in EModE , as in PresE , there were varying conditioned allophones of /a/ ( perhaps some front and some back , or some low and some low-mid ) . |
| 5 | The reason for this is that Field 's New Tribe is imbued with the rather vague mission of transmitting ‘ Western techniques ’ to traditional societies and although this opens the door to many fascinating details about the structures of culture contact , it is at a rather high level of generality for explanatory purposes and it seriously underplays the role of the classes responsible for capitalist expansionism . |
| 6 | In this sense , and at a rather high level of abstraction , the very possibility within discourse of a historically located cultural field , marked by internally contradictory relations and hence by particularly difficult questions of causation and explanation , is part of the problematic of bourgeois society ; that is , it is internal to , and historically related to , a particular historical-social stage ( see Burke 1981 ) . |
| 7 | Emotional isolation is also manifested in a rather high level of insecurity in the relationships between husbands and wives . |
| 8 | Now I have been digressing and let me say quite clearly that I never knew the answer and I do not know it now , how the tremendously high level of morale was sustained , not just in the Pathfinders , but throughout the Command as a whole . |
| 9 | This high level of growth is largely attributable to the current extremely low level of industrialisation . |
| 10 | It is not difficult to show that even an apparently high level of detail in a criterion does not specify the test items unequivocally . |
| 11 | Adults are at least able to acquire , even though this may not be at a sufficiently high level of competence . |
| 12 | The dynamic process generating endogenous economies of scale leads exchanges to compete by being first off the mark in a particular contract so as to achieve a sufficiently high level of trading , and consequently liquidity , and thereby low transactions costs for the traders in that contract . |
| 13 | The achievement of a highly reliable level of software management is currently the most important step that must be taken towards overall control of software production , configuration and issue . |
| 14 | I suspect that your desire to write a letter about beating children reflects an especially high level of interest in the subject . |
| 15 | Glass says he has a naturally high level of production . |
| 16 | This led to a debate within the company as to whether the role of ‘ Laura Ashley ’ was to demonstrate the sort of rooms ‘ Mr and Mrs Average ’ might own , decorated only to those standards to which they could aspire , or should it display exotically luxurious settings , thus attaining an often impossibly high level in taste and quality . |
| 17 | The work load on every flight is variable and can be increased to an extremely high level on contact with unexpected or stressful conditions . |
| 18 | This is especially true if you are playing a sport such as squash , where an extremely high level of stamina is needed right from the very beginning . |
| 19 | Hamburg enjoys an extremely high level of film subsidy - approximately £6 million a year , or three times the sum available in Britain . |
| 20 | Why , given the extremely high level of unemployment , was the government constantly making public its efforts in the training area ? |
| 21 | The cost of land drainage or irrigation , buildings and other fixed capital equipment , machinery and livestock means that a farm business has an extremely high level of capitalisation relative to the returns which can be obtained . |
| 22 | We are committed to improving the already extremely high level of railway safety . |
| 23 | The Faculty has an extremely high level of research activity , and is one of the largest recipients in Britain of ESRC and other Research Council funds . |
| 24 | A special innovation in both mammals and birds was homoiothermy , warm-bloodedness , which allows a constantly high level of activity that is not dependent upon the temperature of the environment . |
| 25 | The existence at Edinburgh of a range of computer-based disciplines — many of which enjoy worldwide reputations — has a spin-off effect across Faculties , giving wide access to a highly sophisticated level of computing potential . |
| 26 | Evolution was not an absolutely continuous process because the crucial episodes in which life had advanced to an entirely new level of development could not be represented as extensions of the more predictable kind of evolution taking place within established groups . |
| 27 | Denying the distinctions between nature and nurture and biology and ideology , he calls for ‘ an entirely new level of causation ’ based on the complex interactions between the biology of living organisms and their environment . |
| 28 | The act of marriage or recognizing an uncle is both a symbolic act within the formal discourse and a practical act given meaning by the less formal level of discourse . |
| 29 | Certain kinds of employers ' combinations seem to have been hindered by antitrust legislation and this may help to explain the generally low level of organisation among employers . |
| 30 | Preliminary work carried out by [ MS during 1983 found a generally low level of information in departments about the initial destinations of their postgraduate students ( 1 ) . |