Example sentences of "level of [noun] [noun] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A spokesman for the local authority employers said the 4.9pc rise was ‘ significantly lower ’ than the average level of pay rises across the whole economy . |
| 2 | In the case of political empire , the decisive production and reproduction of an area of power was of course by other ( military and political ) means , though at the level of reproduction use of the reproducible image of authority became and has remained very important . |
| 3 | In both Britain and Spain the minister has statutory powers to approve budgets , plans and investment programmes , annual reports and accounts , overall price increases , and rail closures ; to set the level of state support for the railways ; and to make or confirm appointments to the board , including the chairman . |
| 4 | In these three countries , for example , major new high speed passenger lines are being constructed , and the level of state support as a percentage of GNP is considerably higher than in Britain or Spain ( BRB/Leeds 1980 ; Nash 1985a ) . |
| 5 | Again it seems that the radical critique has confused form and content , and so has directed valuable criticisms about the level of state support towards the form of state support itself . |
| 6 | Second , a vast increase in the level of state intervention in a variety of spheres ( Friedman , 1971 and 1972 , ch. 10 ) has been accompanied by the development of new forms of state regulation in which discretion and informal controls exercised through devices such as circulars , tax concessions and various methods of state economic management ( Daintith , 1979 ) are accorded much greater prominence than formal ‘ legal ’ measures . |
| 7 | Thus the monetary authorities could reduce the variation in output by adopting a simple rule that links the level of money supply to the lagged shock to aggregate demand , and this dominates the more simple rule that just set money supply equal to a constant that was independent of the state of aggregate demand . |
| 8 | If the level of money incomes in the economy is known , it might be possible to estimate the transactions and precautionary demand for money . |
| 9 | A properly set uniform emission fee that charged a given sum for each unit ( say , 1 tonne ) of pollutant emitted , for example , could achieve a collectively established level of air quality at the least total control cost to society ( Krier and Ursin , 1977 ) . |
| 10 | Lois Lane , manageress of the Fenham Fund , has no views about the general level of futures prices for the commodities she is considering trading , but does have a view about relative price movements , in that she expects the price of kryptonite futures to rise relative to that of phlogiston futures . |
| 11 | Some of the most exacting university degrees , such as those in the biological and physical sciences demand a level of work load from the conscientious student which is greater than that expected in most occupations . |
| 12 | To ask the Secretary of State for Energy what was the level of capital investment in the North sea in 1990 , and in the first half of 1991 . |
| 13 | The impact of the section has been very broadly based in the city , and for the first time we 've added for you in very brief terms , a Domiciliary Health information of just the total number of visits made by the city health care , erm and the level of work in terms of notices served , and prosecutions , note , going up in most of the sections , particularly their units they 're small numbers , but they are significant , just the same , and the table on the top of page forty-four , erm as I said earlier , I think we reached the highest level of insect complaints in the summer that we 've ever had to deal with , it 's very usual for us to deal with a thousand , over in the summer period , this time we dealt with sixteen hundred . |
| 14 | The rapid development of PACs started to get an increased level of press coverage in the 1982 elections and there were growing calls for reform . |
| 15 | That is , after a shift in level of voltage difference between the electrodes has taken place , the output from the amplifier gradually returns to the midline . |
| 16 | She now wishes to investigate whether the level of stability changes in the six months after children are moved from local authority homes to foster parents . |
| 17 | We were greatly impressed by the high level of development expenditure in the area , its social infrastructure , and the quality of those working for its development . |
| 18 | Again , we would expect its level of use to be inversely related to the level of union organisation in an establishment . |
| 19 | However , the level of support activities to the oil industry was maintained with sales of gas oil reaching their highest level since the company was formed . |
| 20 | The hon. Gentleman is right , too , to tell the House of the warning that the Chief Constable of the RUC gave at the end of last week about the potential level of terrorist violence in the run-up to Christmas . |
| 21 | It may be argued , though I think with difficulty , that there is no important difference between the modern welfare state and the nineteenth-century ‘ night watchman ’ state , in so far as it is still an instrument of bourgeois domination ; or that the welfare state — involving a high level of government intervention in the economy , the provision of extensive social services and a considerable degree of national economic planning — corresponds with a new stage in the development of capitalism , which may be called ‘ organized capitalism ’ ; or finally , that the welfare state is a particular stage in a general trend toward collectivism , inspired mainly by the labour movement , and from this aspect can be regarded as a transitional stage on the way to socialism . |
| 22 | To ask the Minister of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food if he will make a statement about the current level of intervention stocks in the United Kingdom and the EC . |
| 23 | Tables showing the current level of intervention stocks in the United Kingdom and the EC are placed in the Library of the House each month . |
| 24 | The level of takeover activity in the UK by both UK and other EC companies is unparalleled in the Community . |
| 25 | In about one out of ten , when there is a low level of pregnancy hormone in the system , there is another phase of sexual receptivity actually during the pregnancy cycle . |
| 26 | By 1938 the Unemployment Insurance Statutory Committee ad-mitted that it could not increase dependants ' benefits without pushing the level of unemployment benefit for the family man above the level of many workers earnings . |
| 27 | Unwittingly , Howard appears to accept that Labour 's growth was inexorable , within the context of the times , for he argues that it occurred despite the poor level of party organization throughout the country . |
| 28 | We have maintained a high level of marketing activity in the traditional areas of our work with the result that we brought in a greater value of tender enquiries in 1992 than we did in the previous year , and this we achieved against the backcloth of a continually reducing market . |
| 29 | James responded by supporting the role of the merchandisers , of whom he said , ‘ I do not think they are changing the LA image — I can only think they are enhancing it by ensuring the best level of stock service to the shops . ’ |
| 30 | Whereas Britain took it as axiomatic that the objective of these negotiations was to reduce the general level of tariff barriers as a matter of good economic principle , her partners in Europe have viewed the matter from the other end of the telescope . |