Example sentences of "[vb pp] at a [adj] level " in BNC.
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| 1 | In any plausible way of forming Jupiter the hydrogen and helium are initially well mixed at a molecular level . |
| 2 | In some situations holiday arrangements might be organised at a lower level in the organisation , particularly in specialist areas , such as operating theatres , where interchange of staff between departments is less easy . |
| 3 | Finally , I have argued that urban sociology 's key concern is the division between everyday life being led in small-scale localities and the fact that social relations and processes are increasingly organised at a global level . |
| 4 | As social life becomes increasingly organised at a global level , the sphere of employment perhaps offers least prospect for the assertion of autonomy and personal identity . |
| 5 | This task is approached at a general level , and also by reference to specific legal concepts . |
| 6 | If the matter really can not be resolved at an informal level , then it should be formally communicated in writing to the person in charge of the activity . |
| 7 | Union leaders protested that while wages had been frozen at a low level , a freeze on prices could not be maintained because of the lack of government inspectors — a fear endorsed by Collor 's television appeal of Feb. 3 asking the general public to be watchdogs against price rises . |
| 8 | With rents normally frozen at an obsolete level , entry fines were either certain , or , if technically arbitrary at the will of the lord , required by custom to be reasonable , which amounted to much the same thing . |
| 9 | The result is that tasks such as redistribution , which in the fiscal federalism literature are seen as a prerogative of central government , may ( given the imperfections of the Tiebout mechanism and the informational requirements of administration ) be shown to be better pursued at a lower level of government when broader considerations are taken into account . |
| 10 | An increase in earnings will lead to a reduction in both benefit and child support and so lone mothers will tend to be trapped at a low level of income . |
| 11 | Two general reviews of the field presented at an introductory level are Bally et al. |
| 12 | Given that it is based on a model which examined variation among electoral wards within only a few regions it could be argued that it is more validly applied at a local level . |
| 13 | It 's very interesting to note that in contemporary political philosophy there is almost no room left for democratic decision making because in most theories that we 're given , more or less everything is already decided at a constitutional level I mean think of theory of justice , it 's the theory of justice that decides the basic nature of a constitution so the role of members of a government is simply to interpret and apply the constitution so they can make the most efficient tax policies given the basic constitution , but no individual has the authority to challenge that constitution and change it by democratic means . |
| 14 | We recognise that the bulk of actual recruitment spade work will be done at a local level , but , apart from a few heroic efforts , the branches were not up to it . |
| 15 | We have not successfully rolled back the frontiers of the state in Britain , only to see them reimposed at a European level , with a European superstate exercising a new dominance from Brussels . |
| 16 | Therefore they need only be made at a higher level of aggregation and should highlight potential peaks and troughs . |
| 17 | Finally , a good deal of inquiry is made at a local level by local authorities or local voluntary bodies attempting to assess a particular problem in the immediate area . |
| 18 | The case for re-thinking what we mean by practice and its relation with theory has been made at an abstract level by writers who draw on the two very different philosophical traditions which contest the dichotomy , Marxism with its concept of praxis , and the American pragmatists who direct our attention to the consequences of our actions . |
| 19 | A few seconds later a second flock was seen at a higher level and directly in the aircraft 's flight path . |
| 20 | Most , perhaps all , functionalists are thorough-going materialists who believe that mental phenomena are genuine physical phenomena seen at a particular level of abstraction . |
| 21 | Such questions would need to be studied and evaluated at a local level . |
| 22 | The European ( and Japanese ) unwillingness to accept this is shown at a theoretical level by their refusal to accept proposals which would have required revaluations , and in practice by their preparedness to pile up dollar reserves . |
| 23 | One justification often advanced for local government is the opportunity thus presented for wider sections of the population to become involved in political responsibilities than could be accommodated at a national level . |
| 24 | Initially , the post had been envisaged at a lower level , but the Lords select committee pushed for this power . |
| 25 | This effect could not be attributed to different patterns of intonation in the two conditions ( Zurif and Mendelsohn , 1972 ) which implies that the effect was mediated at a syntactic level . |
| 26 | This last was expressed in other words as willingness ‘ to see the ratio between profits and incomes preserved at a reasonable level by a tax which would become operative upon all industry when a certain figure was exceeded by profits as a whole ’ . |
| 27 | They said it meant the latter ; they said they were ‘ prepared to see the ratio between profits and incomes preserved at a reasonable level by a tax which would become operative upon all industry when a certain figure was exceeded by profits as a whole ’ . |
| 28 | If directives are not being enforced at a local level , the EC market will remain unfair . |
| 29 | The mayor of the the island of Capri has suggested that negotiations be opened at a diplomatic level for the return of the Altar of Cybele from the British Museum . |
| 30 | In periods of rising profits a company which is geared at a low level may not have the growth potential to give ordinary shareholders the returns expected from a more highly-geared company . |