Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] level [adv] " in BNC.

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1 These in effect became ceilings for the whole pyramid of staff salaries so that those senior men below board level also found their salaries constrained .
2 The Beveridge Report referred to both of these consequences when it argued that social security benefits should be of subsistence level only , allowing the individual , if he so wished , to make his own provision for higher benefits through voluntary insurance — which should also be positively encouraged by the government through tax allowances .
3 It was his policy never to keep staff below executive level too long — it eliminated the danger of their learning too much .
4 A writer in the Town Planning Review trumpeted that train-sheds were now obsolete : ‘ modern terminals in great cities must be below street level hereafter ’ .
5 Thus northern communities that live above subsistence level generally have to be subsidized , and can expect to survive only while subsidies last ; their continuance depends on political decisions , which vary from one part of the north to another ( Armstrong and others , 1978 ) .
6 Above dpc level both the outer leaf of facing bricks , and the inner and thicker leaf of common bricks or blocks , are built as independent structures separated by a cavity 2 to 4in ( 50 to 100mm ) wide .
7 The general feeling that emanated from the City Planning Office ( from directorate level downwards ) was that the organisation on the North Side was both enthusiastic and sophisticated , as well as demanding .
8 Non-executive directors , that is a strength erm it 's also a threat but it is also a strength but basically it 's acting as a sort of yardstick to control or actually guide the actual management right down from board level right down the company there .
9 Financial and administrative constraints permitting , the proposed more open and formal systems of careers guidance , support , and appraisal could achieve much especially if , as proposed , they were reinforced by explicit fairness in appointments procedures from preregistration level upwards and monitored for ethnic and gender neutrality under the auspices of the NHS Management Executive .
10 From the air , it seemed a place of beauty , from ground level often horrifying .
11 The erosion is believed to have been caused by a combination of : i ) the relative rise in sea level brought about by the slow sinking of southeastern England ; ii ) an actual rise in sea level locally since the 1970s ; and iii ) the reduction of saltmarshes due to human-made sea defences .
12 Soon after the introduction of GREAs the government recognized a danger that some authorities might use them as targets , with the consequence that some authorities spending below their GREAs might be encouraged to spend more , while those spending far above them might find the task of cutting back to GREA level too difficult .
13 If there was not a ‘ ceiling ’ to potency level then serial dilution would not be needed to make a remedy , one could simply shake any dilution for different lengths of time as in the example give above .
14 It is now 4 years since I gave my first remedy in an LM potency and it has become my preferred method of prescribing for a number of reasons 1 ) No decision has to be made on potency level i.e. whether 6 , 30 , 200 , etc is indicated .
15 Increasing intake and hoping for movement up to management level eg Unilever !
16 Reduce power enough to ensure a rate of descent which will bring the model down to ground level just in front of you .
17 Down on ground level again , I could n't see gaunt-face anywhere .
18 I lowered the torch to floor level just in case anyone was watching and squeezed the bag gently .
19 Some do , er the rise and fall type of fitting over a dining table where when you 're er , er having dinner you 'd have erm it down to about what not more than twelve inches above the table er so that it lit the table but did n't shine in your eyes , erm some people leave it like that all the time , other people having had a meal lift er it up , erm I think the main thing about the , er adjustable fly and fall is that erm , it 's there for , as you want it , if you 're trying to find a meal you 've lost on the floor well then you pull it down to floor level really .
20 His eye measured these impressive heights coolly , relating them always to sea level rather than to their own grandeur , and correcting Boswell 's exultation over ‘ another mountain I called immense : Johnson : ‘ No ; it is no more than a considerable protuberance . ’ ’
21 ( iv ) If cells are required for examination at LM level only , leave the slide to dry for a minimum of 30 min and even overnight .
22 Erm what proportion of the population was living at subsistence level roughly ?
23 To overcome this problem and allow for differences in the industry-mix between different countries industrial relations at industry level also need to be taken into account .
24 Therefore , you need a system to be in place at club level just as much as at international level ’ .
25 The duties of the professor are , in summary , to pursue original research in the archaeology and art of Rome and its empire ; to give in each academic year at least 36 lectures and classes ; to promote the study of Roman Art and Archaeology at undergraduate level both in the Honour School of Literae Humaniores and related joint schools and in the new Honour School of Archaeology and Anthropology ; to play a leading part in the guidance , supervision , encouragement and examination of graduate students ; and also , when requested to take part in undergraduate examinations .
26 The Danish model of combined heat and power at village level really works , with waste from neighbouring farms being tankered in , converted to biogas for fuel and , after processing , returned to the land as improved compost .
27 The normal definition , that tasks will be executed at Community level only if they can not be satisfactorily dealt with at national level , begs the most important questions which can ever be asked in a democratic system : who decides ? how ? what for ?
28 this is being carried out at site level so more details can be given .
29 At British general elections , vote counts are reported at constituency level only , so that where a party gets its votes is largely unknown ( though party workers have efficient ways of estimating the geography of their support when acting as scrutineers at the count ) .
30 In such a distinctly chic composition this hybrid between trelliswork and pergola helps contain the garden at ground level rather than allowing the view to be dominated by the high surrounding urban walls .
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