Example sentences of "[art] level of [noun] in [art] " in BNC.

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1 This makes up for some of the failings of the pancreas , but it leaves the diabetics reliant on an insulin supply , and unable to fine-tune the level of insulin in the way that a healthy pancreas would .
2 As the table shows , the level of conflict in the early 1980s fell far below that of the 1970s , but the pattern was certainly not one of uniform decline .
3 The level of failures in the construction industry , which accounted for 30 per cent of all failures , compared with 20 per cent in 1983 , was three times higher than in the third quarter of 1988 .
4 As illustrated in Figure 3. 1 , the total number of heroin users in a community during a one-year period ( annual prevalence ) is analogous to the level of water in a sink .
5 If the level of water in a cistern is too high or too low , it can be adjusted by bending the float arm ( if it is metal ) .
6 The level of water in a feed-and-expansion cistern should be low enough to allow the water to expand as it gets hot without overflowing .
7 I have found , many times , that the practical science of these old miners is astounding ; for instance , they made predictions of the effect of barometric pressure on the level of water in the shaft of flooded mine workings , which confounded the scientists of the National Coal Board .
8 This is measured as the ‘ head ’ or the vertical distance from the fitting to the level of water in the cistern .
9 A corroded ball can ‘ pinhole ’ and start filling with water , which will increase the level of water in the cistern .
10 In modern systems , pipes leading into gullies must be below the level of the grid but above the level of water in the trap .
11 The level of water in the Aral has fallen by more than 14 metres in the past 30 years .
12 The secret of their success is to keep the level of nicotine in the blood high until the habit of smoking has worn off .
13 A spokesman said the level of liquor in an evaporator was ‘ higher than it should have been ’ .
14 A rich fatty diet not only tends to make you overweight , it can also raise the level of cholesterol in the bloodstream — a predictor of heart disease .
15 Therefore the higher the level of cholesterol in the blood the greater the risk of problems with the heart .
16 For simplicity we assume a closed economy ( no trade ) : i.e. that investment in the marketable sector I m will depend on the level of consumption in the marketable sector C m , and the levels of investment and consumption in the non-marketable sector I n C n .
17 Another study , carried out by Dr Pierre Jacques from IDEWE Occupational Health Services in Belgium , looked in more detail at the level of markers in the blood of different medical specialities .
18 If your candidate is going to research the level of pollution in a local river , he does n't stand on the bridge and look ; he either wades in to feel for junk or he goes in with a professional diver to find it .
19 The Polish central statistical office has released data on the level of pollution in the country .
20 We should be careful , then , not to confuse the level of employment with the level of output in the service industries .
21 The equations that define the and curves are important because they explain how fiscal policy might affect the level of output in an economy .
22 As the level of stress in the system of our bodies rises it becomes increasingly likely that the body will produce physical , mental , or behavioural symptoms , or any combination of these , in response to this stress .
23 ‘ It should be noted , for instance , that the level of mercury in the Mersey waters is comparable to the EC limit for drinking water .
24 Officials underwent no formal education in the eighteenth century , and in the early nineteenth the level of education in the provincial offices remained very low .
25 Birth rates soared and career women sank in prestige to the level of drop-outs in the great breeding stakes .
26 But what is not wanted is a housing estate , but the employment that is related to , not Greater York 's employment but the employment related to the level of development in the settlement .
27 Whatever was supposed to be wrong had never hindered Rosenthal 's career , and it seemed the real reason for Udinese 's calling off the transfer — they signed Argentinian striker Abel Balbo instead — was the level of anti-semitism in the town .
28 All of these pieces of evidence are relevant to cat , and so would increment the level of evidence in the logogen for cat : but they are relevant to other words too .
29 it is argued , by cutting the level of support in the school .
30 For some , deindustrialization refers to the level of activity in the economy as a whole , and the economy 's ability to reproduce itself .
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