Example sentences of "[vb pp] at [adj] level [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most public-sector salaries were frozen at 1992 levels and " 13th month " wage payments were reduced . |
| 2 | Grants and parental contributions would be frozen at 1990 levels and loans would eventually form half of a student 's maintenance award . |
| 3 | Continued interest will reassure the surveyors involved that responsibility is still felt at higher level and this will inevitably produce better quality work . |
| 4 | Opinions are sought at all levels and team-work training enhances management skills and customer service . |
| 5 | Drucker concluded about decision analysis that : ‘ A decision should always be made at lowest level and as close to the scene of action as possible … |
| 6 | Action is needed at international level and we will play our full part . |
| 7 | Animals again can easily be accommodated at this level but it will not follow from this that they will be capable of the conscious distress or anxiety of a parent at an injury to their child , or of the hamstrung athlete warned by the doctor that they must give up running . |
| 8 | It is not that she believes this evolving female corporate future has yet been reflected by numbers of women employed at senior levels but that it is inevitable it will do so during the next decade . |
| 9 | We will interview company personnel managers in order to establish the relative numbers of men and women employed at different levels and in different departments and company policies in relation to equal opportunities . |
| 10 | Usually a number of variables are set at predefined levels and the resulting values of one or more ‘ response ’ variables observed ; this would be the situation in an industrial experiment to study the variation in yield of some product resulting from changing levels of temperature , amount of catalyst , process time , and so on . |
| 11 | This occurs , following the Formalist principle of defamiliarization , when existing linguistic or literary practice ( a ‘ norm ’ ) is violated at one level or another of a text 's structure , which then itself becomes dominant . |
| 12 | It was held that , although refusal to grant licences did not amount to an abuse as such , it could so do if refusal was arbitrary or if prices were fixed at unfair levels or if the right owner stopped making spare parts . |
| 13 | Sections ( 5 µ ) were cut at several levels and stained with haematoxylin and eosin , periodic acid Schiff , and high iron diamine alcian blue ( HIDAB ) , the latter with strict pH control . |
| 14 | Paraffin sections were cut at three levels and stained with haematoxylin and eosin . |
| 15 | The network system allows access paths to be defined at any level and thus allows much greater flexibility . |
| 16 | An elaborate structure of consultation has subsequently developed , in which major management decisions with implications for the staff , for example closure plans , service reductions or administrative reorganizations , are discussed at national level and then in greater detail in the regions and areas affected . |
| 17 | Biopsy specimens were mounted on filter paper or placed in cassettes before fixation in formalin and after routine processing were sectioned at three levels and stained with haematoxylin and eosin . |
| 18 | The EMSA of extracts of COS cells transfected with this deletion mutant ( Figure 3b , plasmid V ) showed that the protein in the lower complex ( N-Oct 5B ) was expressed at high levels and that in the upper complex at low levels ( N-Oct 5A ) , which is also the pattern seen in brain extracts ( Figure 3a , lane 7 and 1 ) . |
| 19 | He expresses the view that strikes will be fewer in number where collective bargaining is conducted at higher levels and more numerous where there is plant bargaining , largely because , in the latter case , since all workers within an industry or region need not be brought out , strikes can be called at much less cost to the membership as a whole . |
| 20 | As far as Italy is concerned , the relatively low level of institutionalisation of collective bargaining relations has meant that any matter can now be bargained at any level and any time — for instance , at shopfloor level matters already dealt with in the industry agreement can be negotiated ( Treu , 1981 ) . |
| 21 | It may prove more feasible and profitable to set standards of language competence to be achieved at certain levels and leave room for different paths to these common goals . |
| 22 | One hesitates to enter into the argument of whether co-operation and co-ordination should be processes which should be established at national level and work their way down to local level , or should be processes which should develop naturally at local level and work their way through regional to national or even international level . |