Example sentences of "be [prep] the [adj] level " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a sense such questions are about the right level at which to study memory . |
| 2 | In Figure 4.13 LECTURER and SUBJECT are known as ‘ siblings ’ because they are of the same level but of different types . |
| 3 | Now this I dependably find a real throw-up number but there 's never anything too horrendous because , as my colleagues are always saying , we 're at the darning-and-patching level of the biomedical business : the serious cases we bring in direct , and at speed , from the city hospitals , and we in our turn get rid of them as quickly as we can . |
| 4 | The tariff-equivalent quota reduces welfare for two reasons : first , the government fails to capture the quota rents , though , even if it did so , welfare would still be below the pre-policy level by 4.15% ; second , this loss of 4.15% is caused by the quota changing firms ' behaviour . |
| 5 | ( iv ) Security and confidentiality to be of the highest level due to the sensitivity of the information . |
| 6 | The puppy must be on the lowest level . |
| 7 | ‘ Look , ’ he said , braking and getting out — at least they would be on the same level then , instead of her being ten frigid feet tall and him crouching six inches high in the driving seat of his car — ‘ about last night … ’ |
| 8 | The important point , however , is that the two " likes " must be treated as like in some respect ; and in the linguistic cases this does not merely mean that the two items co-ordinated must be on the same level in terms of specific syntactic classifications , as has often been remarked ; more importantly , it is clear that they must be alike in both bearing one of the other relations , already introduced , to some third element ; thus , in : ( 38 ) Nora is Irish and beautiful the structure is such that Irish and beautiful are both related to Nora by assignment , while in : ( 39 ) bed and board is going to take half his wages the relation of instantiation links both bed and board to the single entity in the subject position . |
| 9 | so if blind people are trying to be on the same level terms with sighted people , then , you know , why should they get an |
| 10 | Mrs McCarthy said : ‘ Police protection this weekend will be at the highest level , particularly in view of the historic importance of the Cobham Hall buildings and grounds . ’ |
| 11 | Using a rather perplexing argument , Japan 's deputy finance minister complained with only a slight tinge of panic yesterday that the Nikkei should be at the 24,000 level . |
| 12 | Another consideration is the use of humour , which should be at the right level of sophistication , otherwise it can fall flat ( the best kind of humour is that generated spontaneously in the classroom ) . |
| 13 | For a full equilibrium two conditions must be fulfilled : first the economy must be at the natural level of unemployment , where expectations of inflation are correct ; and second the government must have no incentive to fool people by stimulating aggregate demand . |
| 14 | ‘ It is possible an EC directive would be at the same level or just below UK standards . ’ |
| 15 | Inputs and outputs should be at the same level of abstraction ; in other words conversion of an abstract notion ( such as customers needs ) to a tangible form ( such as the specific goods or services that are supplied ) is not supportable in a root definition . |
| 16 | If the data produces an exactly balanced tree , then this optimal point would be at the same level across all branches ( Sussenguth , 1963 ) , but this is not so with a lexicon , so the construction is much more difficult . |
| 17 | arranging payment of allowances ( these will be at the same level as the client 's previous rate of benefit ) ; and |
| 18 | Governors of individual schools needed to be at the same level of understanding and acceptance of what was being planned . |
| 19 | To qualify as a model foster parent you had to be at the wealthier level of the middle class , with an already established family ; it helped if you lived in the country ( away from urban enticements ) , spoke a little German , and could tolerate moody children who suffered bouts of depression and were inclined to long silences . |
| 20 | His recording of Giulio Cesare has recently shown that he can succeed when his singers are on the same level as his musical ideas . |
| 21 | A best fit occurs when all three factors are on the same level in the spectrum , though this is rare in practice . |
| 22 | If boiler and hot water cylinder are on the same level , a pump has to be installed into the system . |
| 23 | In Figure 4.15 , the fact that LECTURER is placed to the left of SUBJECT , even though they are on the same level , means that the former will be processed first in any search . |
| 24 | If the Arab Palestinians who saw in the Nazis some hope of preventing Jewish immigration into Palestine were on the same level as the SS , were not those Palestinians who oppose Israel today equally guilty ? |
| 25 | if both of them were on the same level there would be no falls , there would be no power . |
| 26 | There was a master over-ride switch outside each of the stages , allowing them to pass swiftly through until they were at the deepest level . |
| 27 | Ali , for example , in the same passage , speaks of " 40-akce medreses ' and medreses of less than 50 akce " ( whereas , of course , all medreses were at the 50-akce level ) . |
| 28 | Smith , Gregg and Andrews ( 1989 ) devised the following ranking of selection methods with respect to their predictive validity : graphology and astrology were at the same level as chance prediction , references and interviews were a little higher , then structured interviews , then biodata , personality tests and assessment centres for performance , then ability tests and work sample tests and finally , at the highest level , assessment centres for promotion . |
| 29 | The problem is to provide students with high-quality stories which are well-constructed and entertaining — and which are at the right level linguistically for their ability . |
| 30 | Thus priority is given to existing employees in the allocation of individuals to posts , and entry points to the system are at the lowest level of any particular hierarchy . |