Example sentences of "[vb base] at a [adj] level " in BNC.

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1 In spring , either dig up the shrub and replant at a deeper level , or mound soil round its base so that only the upper half of stems is exposed .
2 Rolle 's Meditations embody at a literary level his appreciation of the shaping energies of the form of the inner life .
3 Speak at a constant level .
4 Voluntary organisations which operate at a regional level would be severely disadvantaged by the proposals in the White Paper .
5 These already exist as , as obviously the speakers to the motion is , are aware , they already exist at a national level , erm if we support this motion obviously what we 're talking about here is introducing er awards at local or regional level .
6 I have seen some fine players who compete at a high level bring in another line , between the service line and the baseline .
7 Where there are definite intuitions about which elements belong at a given level , we may speak of substantive levels .
8 Revenue figures necessarily start at a modest level and even 100 per cent growth leaves us with a level only slightly less modest .
9 Such an ability would be of more than merely theoretical interest : there are specialists , detectives one might almost say , who can take enormous quantities of program in a lower-level language ( not binary numbers , but normally machine code or something a little ‘ higher ’ ) and make plausible guesses as to what they actually do at a higher level of description ; or rather , given that they are told what the program was designed to do , work out how it accomplished the task and by what ‘ higher-level ’ steps .
10 Many of these stalwarts could , I am sure , play at a higher level of football and we are lucky that their devotion to the club and my management skills keep them here .
11 As a result , genes underwriting the avoidance of incest remain at a high level in the population .
12 A new Technical Conservation , Research and Education group has been created to co-ordinate research and conservation skills developments , and ensure that our practical conservation standards remain at a high level .
13 There 15 some evidence that children perform at a higher level in their reading when they are really interested in what they are reading about ( Belloni and Jongsma , 1978 ) , and project work would seem an ideal area in which this could happen .
14 ‘ This new scheme will ensure that , where local authorities spend at a sensible level , no ratepayer or ratepaying couple anywhere in the country will be more than £3 a week worse off when the community charge is introduced , ’ he said .
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