Example sentences of "a [noun] at the [adj] level " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I happen to be the only person here who believes we have to make a response at the European level , ’ Mr Radice said . |
| 2 | ‘ No disrespect to Grimsby — they are a good club and a fine footballing side — but I still believe I have a future at the highest level , ’ he said yesterday . |
| 3 | We need a man with experience , a record at the highest level , and contacts . |
| 4 | On returning she is guaranteed a job at the same level and of similar content to the one she left , but ‘ the plan is that nearer the time I start to discuss my return with management and personnel ’ . |
| 5 | The difficulty here in handling the ( a ) variable following Labov 's model ( which assumes an underlying structural identity ) is that the ( a ) systems in RP and in Scottish English are embedded in structurally different phonologies ; as a consequence the range of realizations in Glasgow does not correspond in any simple way to the range in RP , where there is a distinction at the phonemic level between front and back / a / rather than at the subphonemic level as in Glasgow . |
| 6 | If , however , a group is set an ambiguous task with an uncertain outcome and with little previous experience to draw on it is unlikely to succeed unless it operates as a team at the skilful level . |
| 7 | After the account of creation and redemption , which despite the variance among intellectual accounts in the past probably has slightly less relevance as a divider at the popular level , the two main variants begin ( for popular accounts , see Harris 1972 ; Leyton 1975 ) . |
| 8 | In the case of matching grants the central government agrees to match a certain proportion of the expenditures of the local authority ; for example , central government may pay x per cent of the total cost of providing a service at the local level . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's incredible that a little league like ours has won a victory at the highest level in the world , ’ says Kip . |
| 10 | First , the department has a role at the executive-director level by being present at the board 's review of the plans from the business units and by highlighting where these plans do not adequately address certain strategic issues . |
| 11 | 4.6 There is ample further evidence for regarding the second and third elements in such sequences — unlike the others we have seen so far — as jointly equivalent to a clause at the intensional level ; let us consider the four points which follow : First , most or all such phrases accept the insertion of the explicit predicator to be in front of the adjective ( and to be seems to be more or less obligatory when such adjectives are questioned ) ; we have already seen examples ( e.g. ( 35 ) , ( 41 ) ) . |
| 12 | Semenov promised me that he would have a word at the highest level , with Yury Vladimirovich Andropov . |
| 13 | Somerset 's cricket director Bob Cottam said : ‘ Mushtaq has proved himself as a wicket-taker at the highest level . |
| 14 | Or a qualification at the same level which pre-dates the above . |
| 15 | Or a qualification at the same level which predates the above |
| 16 | The man who , up to then , had experienced 18 years as a player at the highest level revealed how the sack made him determined to prove he had not suddenly become second rate . |
| 17 | Doubt of this variety stems from a deficiency at the second level of understanding , the level at which Christian presuppositions enter for the first time . |
| 18 | This is an example of doubt which comes from a deficiency at the fourth level of understanding , the only one which actually overlaps with the experience of becoming a Christian . |
| 19 | The most common of the behaviours in Table 1.1 , forgetting which gear you are in , appears to be an example of lack of memory for a task at the operational level which is normally performed automatically . |
| 20 | Another , who has problems in understanding speech as well as problems in understanding print , has an impairment at the semantic level . |