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

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1 Every fan has a personal memory , a wild weekend at Wembley , a night at the dancing , a rammy at the taxi-rank , and sooner or later a Scottish footballer staggers through the story adding a new level of absurdity to the proceedings .
2 The aim , as Peter Hollins explains , ‘ must be to increase our level of performance to the point where , even if external factors turn against us still further , we will not only survive but prosper . ’
3 STANDARD Chartered Bank , the group with an uncomfortable level of exposure to the troubled Australian entrepreneur , Alan Bond , has sold its prestige headquarters building for £145million as part of efforts to shore up its capital ratios .
4 In effect , what is required is to place under a contemporary hyper-text interface , data-base models which are very powerful , yet can provide a high level of abstraction to the end-user .
5 Well I think that is true , perhaps , as I have said , in terms of the ecological situation , but I think to translate that level of expectation to the situation vis-a-vis the Gulf is another matter altogether .
6 But when she turned back to her mother again , his face resumed its worried , searching frown of concentration , his ear attuned below the level of conversation to the pain and weariness in her voice .
7 A weak interaction between knowledge sources necessarily gives a hierarchical flow of information from one level of description to the next , as activation proceeds bottom-up through the system .
8 With population-based contracts , ie contracts to provide a defined population with its full requirements for a specified range of services , the incentive to the provider is to treat as few patients as possible , to undersupply and to reduce the level of service to the minimum specified in the contract .
9 Dawn Roberts , tourism officer , said : ‘ It applies to all businesses throughout the borough , not just those in tourism , but all those who wish to maintain a good level of service to the customer .
10 Failure to optimise the level of support to the caring team will undermine efforts to distribute annual leave evenly among nurses .
11 She said : ‘ We do have a large level of donation to the unit because people want to give the money to us .
12 Other topics will be the level of aid to the third world , environmental issues , and the arms trade .
13 The Fix is a rigid camming device , with a specially forged alloy stem , designed to give a higher level of strength to the stem .
14 This is not to deny some level of autonomy to the latter , but to reject assertions of its virtual total autonomy .
15 In Berry 's case , English law did certainly provide for one level of appeal to the Court of Appeal and may have provided one level of appeal beyond that .
16 Because of a relatively low level of applications to the Open Door Scheme , the Committee decided to begin a number of regional promotions .
17 Basic Stable Management , is designed as an introductory course and students could follow on to the Senior Horsemaster Course 1 and then onto the Senior Horsemasters Course 2 which is an equivalent level of study to the BHS Stage IV .
18 This approach has many parallels with empowerment in the developmental model , the main differences lying in the social worker 's level of commitment to the existing social order .
19 I was greatly impressed by the high level of commitment to the achievement of success by everyone that I met .
20 It is unlikely that employees ( who are not shadow directors ) owe such a high level of duty to the company , though they are still subject to a lower duty of good faith and of confidentiality .
21 Eastern Europe must try to maintain satisfactory levels of exports to the West in order to service its debt obligations there and satisfy domestic needs at a time when it is being pressed to greatly increase exports of manufactures to the Soviet Union to pay for increasingly costly imports .
22 Design then , " cognitive-modeling " — " an action-based " form of knowledge " for thinking , reasoning and operating " which is not " tied to concrete-operational levels of thinking " but deals also with " formal operational thought and hypothetical-deductive reasoning " — returns these levels of thought to the concrete through the medium of form and the activity of forming .
23 If they 'd been wise and told their government that this tax should not happen , as indeed many of their former ministers , like Michael Heseltine said , they 'd said it was incredibly complicated although seemed sounding easy , and would in fact bring higher levels of taxation to the lowest income people , then er if the local tories had actually acted on that and put pressure on their central party , perhaps their government would n't be in such a mess about this issue now .
24 These beers are also made with substantial levels of adjuncts to the malt mash : maize , rice , triticale , wheat flour and potato starch .
25 In order to start drawing useful inferences leading to sensible modifications of the material , we should also keep in mind these points : ( a ) the observer must thoroughly understand the curriculum designer 's aims and objectives and report in relation to these ( b ) it is necessary for the observer to understand how the teacher has interpreted these intentions ( c ) the curriculum designer must thoroughly understand the facts that the observer has brought back to him ; the dialogue that this implies can produce valuable suggestions for improving the unit ( d ) teachers of differing style must be observed and teachers at differing levels of acclimatization to the program must be observed to obtain full data ( e ) it is also important for the observer to understand which stage of development the unit has reached .
26 All of us have different levels of tolerance to the demands on our mental energy .
27 Other utilities allow you to support up to four other users on the same system , each of which has a different key , allowing different levels of access to the system .
28 This can be applied to polygon overlay operations to ascribe descriptive levels of certainty to the resulting map .
29 The pricing arrangements link the assessed needs of individuals to defined levels of care by applying a pricing framework which anchors the costs of care for those with minimal levels of dependency to the rates which are paid by the DSS .
30 Secondly , many religions have several tiers of membership that represent varying levels of commitment to the beliefs and/or dedication to a religious life of devotion .
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