Example sentences of "at [art] [adv] [adj] level " in BNC.

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1 Methodological principles need to be discussed at the rather abstract level at which they were presented in the preceding chapters ; otherwise it is not always easy to assess the applicability of a set of methods to a new research context .
2 But the problem existed even at the most serious levels .
3 At the most simplistic level there is a view which suggests the emergence of a ‘ chief executive ’ approach to management in schools .
4 At the most junior level there are the students , about whom we have spoken already .
5 I hope that he will find it possible to allow extra ranks to be recruited all the way along the line — not only at the most junior level — to ensure that we do not lose those very able people .
6 Nevertheless , given the strength of local ties , the patriotism that w as to mark the great crises remained an abstract emotion , imperfectly felt at the most intimate levels .
7 To me , subsidiarity means taking decisions at the most appropriate level , whether it be European , national , regional or local .
8 At the most general level , what Table 2.2 demonstrates is that the absolute loss of manufacturing employment has not just been ‘ reflected ’ in the different parts of the country .
9 At the most general level , therefore , it is convenient to think of the speech community as having a ‘ shape ’ and of language in the community as being capable of displaying patterns , much as we might think of these other dynamic phenomena as displaying shapes and patterns .
10 First , at the most general level , testing , and other forms of assessment , represent education in a mechanistic way .
11 At the most general level , we can say that the electorate has not lived up to the hopes of those who looked to an active and informed public involvement in policies and elections .
12 At the most general level , we all know about voting patterns in Scotland .
13 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 .
14 Even at the most material level there were some differences in the status of women .
15 Second , in many communities where it was treasured at the most sophisticated level it was an exotic , even in some cases a mysterious substance , only to be secured from a distance .
16 More than physical possession , in which , Proust says , one actually possesses nothing , Marcel seeks from Albertine reassurance concerning his own distinctiveness , his separateness , his individuality , and in Proust 's conception of love , therefore , failure is inevitable , because despite the conventionally unifying language of love , what we seek at the most profound level is not contact with another person , but contact with ourselves .
17 ‘ Sweeney Erect ’ is a poem about sexuality ; that sort of erection clearly links at the most basic level the different planes of history in the poem .
18 At the most basic level , major museums must satisfy a requirement to produce inventories , regardless of any additional or subsequent developments .
19 At the most basic level , a cordless handset will use the same number as your standard fixed line , and will only operate within 100 yards of it .
20 At the most basic level there is the rejection of any purpose in the pattern of human activities , except that of the instinct for survival itself , and the acceptance of a theory of cultural evolution which explains the origin of human values .
21 At the most basic level , an ‘ effect ’ would consist of an individual 's changed ‘ relationship with at least one other individual ’ .
22 It is the maintenance of these audit logs that generates most of the system overhead according to the company ; at the most basic level the extra security imposes a 2% to 3% speed reduction , but as the system records become more complete , this rises .
23 After all , at the most basic level , Ireland should be a superb base for establishing a rock-bottom high volume personal computer manufacturing business that could knock spots off Tulip Computers NV with its lower costs and be challenging Elonex Plc and the tartan Americans led by Compaq Computer Corp and IBM Corp , not to mention Ireland 's own foster-sons Dell Computer Corp in Limerick , and Apple Computer Inc in Cork .
24 It is the maintenance of these audit logs that generates most of the system overhead according to the company ; at the most basic level the extra security imposes a 2% to 3% speed reduction , but as the system records become more complete , this rises .
25 Unfortunately Cantor 's definition was too wide-ranging : intuition had failed once again at the most basic level ( see Russell 's Paradox in Section 0.2 ) and the third great foundational crisis was at hand .
26 Even at the most basic level , there is the issue about sexual terms .
27 For instance , at the most basic level , the higher the profit margin the supplier receives for performing a contract , the greater the liability he can reasonably be asked to accept for failure to perform as promised .
28 Some database programs , for example , allow use at the most basic level and produce the required results .
29 We believe that political power is best exercised at the most local level possible , consistent with good government .
30 Rather than try to impose large structures on what is happening from the outset , they begin at the most local level , trying to see how participants in interaction handle conversation : how they judge who can speak , and when .
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