Example sentences of "rather [adj] level [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The House of Commons Estimates Committee in 1967 recognized this : no less than nine Whitehall departments were involved in a rather low level of activity .
2 Much of this argumentation is , of course , concerned with very broad states of language , and , as I have pointed out , can apply only at a rather high level of generality , because it is likely that in EModE , as in PresE , there were varying conditioned allophones of /a/ ( perhaps some front and some back , or some low and some low-mid ) .
3 The reason for this is that Field 's New Tribe is imbued with the rather vague mission of transmitting ‘ Western techniques ’ to traditional societies and although this opens the door to many fascinating details about the structures of culture contact , it is at a rather high level of generality for explanatory purposes and it seriously underplays the role of the classes responsible for capitalist expansionism .
4 In this sense , and at a rather high level of abstraction , the very possibility within discourse of a historically located cultural field , marked by internally contradictory relations and hence by particularly difficult questions of causation and explanation , is part of the problematic of bourgeois society ; that is , it is internal to , and historically related to , a particular historical-social stage ( see Burke 1981 ) .
5 Emotional isolation is also manifested in a rather high level of insecurity in the relationships between husbands and wives .
6 They would film to fit their rather general level of understanding , a pooled regression to the mean of intellectual safeness .
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