Example sentences of "levels of [noun sg] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the 1990s began , almost every western industrialised country was investing heavily in new rail links and traffic controls to combat growing levels of air pollution from traffic . |
| 2 | First , a major aim is to document the impact of current policies on levels of service provision at both regional and district scales . |
| 3 | Children in the Faroe Islands have been discovered to have alarmingly-high levels of mercury present in their tissues , apparently as a result of their mothers consuming meat from pilot whales during pregnancy . |
| 4 | This gives two levels of password protection against unauthorised use of files . |
| 5 | achieve higher levels of customer acceptance/usage of a product or product-line |
| 6 | These can commonly carry high levels of resistate minerals including cassiterite . |
| 7 | Further research will be required to investigate the factors associated with the differential levels of degree performance between categories of non-traditional entrants , and between these students and traditionally qualified entrants . |
| 8 | Levels of self employment in the Northern region are the lowest in Britain , whereas unemployment remains high , despite recent falls . |
| 9 | Low levels of IgG antibodies against myeloperoxidase or antigen were also found occasionally in sera from patients with ulcerative colitis and primary sclerosing cholangitis . |
| 10 | Paul Mayewski of the University of New Hampshire , who has compared current levels of sulphur dioxide with those after volcanic eruptions , said : " I would say that we 're underestimating the effect of warming due to carbon dioxide because we 're dumping so much sulphur dioxide into the system " . |
| 11 | The programme is based on a study carried out last year , which showed that 57 per cent of eastern residents drank below-standard water , and that 36 per cent breathed air which contained levels of sulphur dioxide above safety levels . |
| 12 | Levels of sulphur dioxide in the air reached 2,400 microgrammes per cubic metre over the weekend . |
| 13 | This programme has nearly been completed and is unlikely to provide any significant levels of grant aid in 1993 . |
| 14 | Museum specimens also enable us to determine the changes in the levels of methyl mercury in tuna and swordfish , by comparing today 's concentrations with those at the turn of the century . |
| 15 | The sediments are well-preserved , enabling researchers to compare levels of water pollution with particular phases of the growth and decline of the City of London since Roman times , and in particular with pollution levels in the past 300 years . |
| 16 | The South West has some of the highest levels of household radon in the country . |
| 17 | These findings provide some empirical confirmation of Lawler 's ( 1986 : 180–1 ) speculative comments about the potential results from new design plants , combining high levels of worker control with a ‘ high-involvement management ’ style . |
| 18 | Unisys Corp has introduced a clustering system for its 2200 series mainframes that it describes as a highly parallel processing technology yielding significantly higher levels of system performance for mainframe servers . |
| 19 | The effect of a progressive personal taxation system may be exacerbated by high levels of price inflation in which the rate of increase in personal allowances lags behind the rate of change in prices and incomes . |
| 20 | Having considered possible explanations for some of the major inter-country differences between the levels of union organisation at a particular point in time it is also useful to examine the related question of the factors which help to explain the year-to-year growth and fluctuations in union membership over the course of time . |
| 21 | Levels of government expenditure on education dropped from over 30 per cent of national expenditure and 6 to 7 per cent of GNP in the mid-1970s to 22 per cent and 4 per cent respectively in 1985 . |
| 22 | For levels of government expenditure below G o individual i chooses private provision ( see Stiglitz , 1974a , for further discussion of this example ) . |
| 23 | Levels of government support for the railways fell throughout the 1980s , from £1262 million in 1980–81 to £462 million in £1990–91 . |
| 24 | Dividing the average levels of consumption spending for each income group by the corresponding average level of income gives each group 's apc . |
| 25 | The requirement for higher concentrations to disrupt pancreatic lysosomes may reflect the fact that , in an in vitro system , the period of incubation of isolated lysosomes with cholesteryl ester is necessarily limited ( 30 minutes in our study ) whereas in the previous in vivo study , lysosomes were exposed to increased levels of cholesteryl esters for a much longer period ( up to four weeks ) . |
| 26 | Levels of antitrust enforcement in the United States have moved in cycles . |
| 27 | Provide very high levels of expenditure authority for division general managers — and all other levels as well |
| 28 | THE HNU-Hanby environmental test kits are suitable for measuring low levels of petroleum hydro-carbons in water and soil . |
| 29 | Given the varying levels of computer expertise in Colleges at that time , and the current status of the proposed new systems , it was difficult to make specific proposals about how the associated responsibilities should be handled at College level . |
| 30 | Figure 2.4 offers a broad international comparison which highlights the consequences of much higher levels of capital equipment per worker in large Japanese firms for the size of the productivity gap . |