Example sentences of "[noun sg] to a [noun] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clearly a major problem in controlling corporate crime is raising victim and public consciousness to a level where the community desires and supports a policy of more active and effective state control and regulation . |
| 2 | Dicey described how , when ‘ Voltaire came to England — and Voltaire represented the feeling of his age — his predominant sentiment clearly was that he had passed out of the realm of despotism to a land where the laws might be harsh , but where men were ruled by law and not by caprice ’ ( Dicey , 1959 : 189–90 ) . |
| 3 | As in all business calculations , the cost of obtaining such information needs to be balanced against its benefits , ( and against the consequences of limiting the search to a point where the forecaster does not know whether the information foregone is more or less than marginally useful ) . |
| 4 | It is our wish , as ever , to build better relationships with these agencies , and develop levels of mutual confidence to a point where the flow of information would be much greater than it has been . |
| 5 | If there is no loop on your amp , you 'll find that passing a guitar signal through a bunch of effects and into the amp 's input degrades the true signal to a point where the preamp struggles to compensate for it . |
| 6 | Revealing her inmost secret , Ayesha leads Leo and Holly by a perilous mountain route to a cavern where the Fire of Immortality appears intermittently . |
| 7 | The first was on the local islet of Likangloe , where the once abundant population of wild goats had recently been massively reduced in inverse proportion to that of the snakes which ate them , and where the resident family of fisherfolk had lost a sixteen-year-old daughter to a python only the year before . |
| 8 | Instead there is smooth convergence to a position where the government 's type is known . |
| 9 | It is capable however , of being correct in its application to a case where the Food Controller had unlawfully demanded and received payment as a condition of allowing any purchase of milk . |
| 10 | [ 8 ] It is classically imagined that there exists direct and reliable neural machinery which detects events in the tissue and transmits the information to a centre where the sensation of pain is generated . |
| 11 | Where the roots stick out the bank gives way to a hollow where the buffaloes are tethered during the day . |
| 12 | In the British system of local government finance , with the wonderful inimitable reforms of the present government , er we have gone from a situation in which er the central government financed about , between forty five and fifty percent of local expenditure to a situation where the central government finances about eighty five percent , I think between eighty five and ninety percent of local spending . |
| 13 | The motor will therefore drive the output shaft to a position where the monostable time period exactly matches that of the input pulse width . |