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

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1 Consequently it did not really manage to achieve the level of plausibility of the more popularly accepted opposite view of classical criminology — that official processing deters further deviant acts .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he will increase the level of expenditure on the environmental technology innovation scheme .
5 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 .
6 As we have observed in earlier chapters , one of the major concerns of government one which can be traced back to the last century — is the control of the level of expenditure by the state .
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 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 .
14 Therefore the higher the level of cholesterol in the blood the greater the risk of problems with the heart .
15 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 .
16 Table 5.10 Receipt of statutory services at home in the last month Odds ratios , compared with the level of receipt by the husband of elderly married couples , controlling for disability
17 Thus , it may be that , in our case , the level of transcription from the VSG promoter was too low to be detected .
18 The Polish central statistical office has released data on the level of pollution in the country .
19 The 45° line in part ( c ) projects this level of output to part ( d ) , where the level of output at the price level can be plotted .
20 But this fundamentally depends on the level of output of the economy when the savers reach old age .
21 For example , suppose that the level of output of the good increased .
22 We should be careful , then , not to confuse the level of employment with the level of output in the service industries .
23 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 .
24 ‘ It should be noted , for instance , that the level of mercury in the Mersey waters is comparable to the EC limit for drinking water .
25 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 .
26 The level of provision of the social element of citizenship has to depend upon the prosperity of the country and its priorities as determined by the government in allocating resources between investment , private consumption and social services .
27 The following sections give greater detail on the level of uptake for the SCOTVEC Higher National awards .
28 Better news is that torque steer is almost non-existent and the level of grip from the ( optional ) 185/60 R14 82H Bridgestone Potenzas is high .
29 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 .
30 Using one minus the proportion of the workforce holding unskilled , semi-skilled or clerical jobs as a proxy for the level of skill of the workforce , Table 3.12 suggests that , at least with fixed-term contract workers , employers ' behaviour is as expected — establishments with a highly skilled labour force are less likely to use temporary workers .
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