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

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1 His head rose above the floor level of the hay-loft in time to see a great deal more of Melody than he had anticipated as she slipped her ragged clothes back on .
2 The lower portions of the inclined planes descend below the level of the water in the tail bays , and as the tanks on the downward run move down into the water until there is parity of level between the water in the tank and that in the bay , dock gates are unnecessary in these lower channels .
3 This determines the level of the water in the cistern so it needs to go back to the same notch
4 This new pond would be connected to the present rear header pool using 4″ pipework and the header pool itself would be raised higher because this would control the level of the water in the new pond .
5 If such a tube is placed vertically into a tank of water the level of the water in the tube will rise above that in the tank .
6 Mr Goldring claimed Allitt had injected her with insulin and said a test after her death had found a high level of the drug in her blood .
7 They found that , for both the UK and the USA , the change in the mispricing depended on the level of the mispricing in the previous period .
8 The surest way to fix the level of the sea in the interglacial periods would seem to consist in undertaking pollen analyses of interglacial beds containing marine transgressions .
9 Looking up and downstream I can see lots of discharge points which would rapidly raise the level of the river in wet weather .
10 Thus unambiguous edge detection and localization can be achieved by feeding the outputs of two such cells into a subsequent level of the system in which cells will only respond when both of the input cells are active .
11 Mrs Pigdon , returning with his meal , noted the disgracefully lowered level of the liquor in the brandy bottle and gave him a look that spoke volumes .
12 Thus for a bond issued on 1 January , 1990 , the base for indexing would be given by the level of the RPI in April , 1989 ; the uplift for capital value in January of each subsequent year would depend on the change in the RPI to April of the preceding year and all sums paid in interest would depend on the level of the RPI eight months before the payment date .
13 A stone was impacted at the level of the ampulla in five patients .
14 Often , the initial rapid rate of flow decreases , and then the level of the lava in the canal drops , leaving the banks , or levees as they are called , standing up high and dry like walls .
15 The curve illustrates costs per capita ; as more people live in the locality , there is a reduction in the share that each resident pays of the total cost incurred by providing some service level of the good in question .
16 The aim of this project is to assess the technological level of the economy in the ‘ newly democratising ’ countries of what was generally called Eastern Europe , namely Bulgaria , Czechoslovakia , Hungary and Poland .
17 Yes I think that over the course of our married life we had a number of moves for various reasons , generally to improve the accommodation , erm as standard of life increased so the desire to have a better house to live in or rather in those days a house was out of the question , we generally had rooms in a house , erm , they , the flat for instance that we were bombed out from was a basement flat , erm according to the estate agents it was a garden flat , erm and it meant that you had access to the front garden and the back garden , but as for being a garden flat it was below the level of the garden in the front and at the back it was on the level with the erm green grass at the back of the house , it was also along side of the trolley bus depot , so there it was considerably noisy , nevertheless it was a self contained flat , the first one we 'd had , no the second one we 'd had and we were perfectly happy there although of course it did have minor difficulties , the fact that you used the front door with people who had flats on the other remaining three floors , but nevertheless it did involve you in a certain amount of community living , you were aware of your neighbours , you had to be very conscious of them and they were very conscious of you .
18 Although some of the official assessments of cattle stealing in Kurunagala at the turn of the century may have been over-optimistic , it is clear that the level of the crime in the district , and more generally the Northern Band , was much less than it had been in the 1880s and earlier .
19 The level of the malt in the newly broached bottle went down and down .
20 it is no longer possible to think the process of the development of the different levels of the whole in the same historical time .
21 Dunleavy also wishes to distinguish between different levels of the bureaucracy in explaining why , contrary to budget-maximization accounts , privatization has met with so little resistance from senior officials .
22 When Glass ( 1954 ) studied trends up to the 1950s , he found that although many men experienced mobility , most of this was short-range and across the middle levels of the hierarchy in a ‘ buffer zone ’ .
23 Apart from the load attempted suicide places on health service facilities , it is not yet known whether the high levels of the behaviour in recent years will subsequently be reflected in an increase in the numbers of completed suicides .
24 A pressure group , the Berne Declaration , has shown New Scientist confidential company reports showing that levels of the chemical in field workers from Latin America and Egypt regularly exceed the maximum permitted for the company 's own employees .
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