Example sentences of "the level of [noun] on the " in BNC.

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1 To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he will increase the level of expenditure on the environmental technology innovation scheme .
2 Thus productivity is influenced in the UK and FRG mainly by a management factor , the level of expenditure on the R&D worker , and in the USA and Japan by a product factor , selling price .
3 The result was that there was not the level of ability on the shop floor to sustain the German system of decentralisation and shop-floor level integration of work .
4 The level of noise on the shop-floor was very high and the quality of hearing had to be carefully assessed and monitored and , if necessary , steps taken to prevent further deterioration .
5 LRT said in its corporate plan published yesterday : ‘ The level of congestion on the Underground is such that unconstrained further growth in demand can not safely be accommodated , and real increases in fares would help restrain excessive growth . ’
6 David Blunkett , another member of the national executive , told a conference fringe rally organised by the soft-left Labour Coordinating Committee that Labour would have to find additional funds for its social programme by cutting £9.5bn from defence spending over five years , and raising the level of taxation on the rich .
7 The level of activity on the decks had increased .
8 And the problem is exacerbated with the level of competition on the market increasing all the time — many hardware vendors , for example , are trying to boost dwindling profits by moving into this arena — many observers question whether IBM Corp can actually make money from facilities management .
9 The exchange represented the worst of both sides — woolly-minded thinking on the one hand and a blinkered response reducing morality to the level of materialism on the other .
10 It is a refreshing experience to follow the hon. Member for Chichester ( Mr. Nelson ) and I hope that the level of debate on the European Community that we have attained today will be reflected in our two-day debate on 20 and 21 November .
11 But it 's clear from the level of concentration on the brows of the muscular young men and the shoulder-padded young women in the front row that they would have happily forked out for the privilege of being present .
12 This level of conformity is likely to be a function of two factors : * the level of dependence on the group ; * the benefits ( or acceptance ) of conformity , and the risk of sanction ( or loss of benefits ) arising from non-conformity .
13 To test the prediction that the unpredictable component of monetary growth affects real variables , Barro first regresses the level of unemployment on the current and lagged values of his variable and on two other variables which are seen as influencing the natural rate of unemployment .
14 Yeo has written to the department criticising what he claimed was its decision to ‘ down-grade ’ the level of security on the girl .
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