Example sentences of "[be] a [adv] high [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This course is largely taken by candidates from overseas and there has been a worryingly high failure rate . |
| 2 | He has been a very high profile MP and the voters tend to like that sort of thing . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Whether to be a very High Church clergyman with a short lacy surplice , or a very Low Church clergyman with long grey moustaches . ’ |
| 4 | There is also a wonderful opportunity for groups to organize Amnesty events around the 28th , as The Big Three-O is already creating enormous media interest , and is bound to be a very high profile event for Amnesty . |
| 5 | They seemed to be a very high risk group of patients . |
| 6 | In other words it 's a relatively high risk gamble , but if your army holds together you will probably win . |
| 7 | So it 's costing us approximately twenty pence for each bottle and that 's very high , that 's a very high quality bottle . |
| 8 | Eight times out of ten seeking ideas succeeds in eliciting an idea and that is a surprisingly high hit rate . |
| 9 | Secondly , there is a very high risk factor attached to insider dealing as a form of compensation . |
| 10 | Moreover , the main cloud base lies at an altitude of about 48 km , which by Earth standards is a very high cloud base . |
| 11 | JustText , the program in question , is a very high quality tool capable of producing superbly crafted typesetting with a limited amount of page layout . |
| 12 | Almost as an afterthought she added , ‘ There is a very high pain threshold here . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ The judges were also impressed by the fact that 75 per cent of people who complete the programme find jobs when they have finished it , which is an astonishingly high success rate . ’ |
| 14 | Roderick et al report that both the study of the Joint Matriculation Board ( JMB ) candidates who entered Sheffield University in the three years between 1975 to 1977 , and the study involving 17 English Universities , demonstrate that there is an exceptionally high dropout rate and failure rate in relation to unqualified mature students . |
| 15 | A86 is an extremely high performance assembler as it can compile 1000 lines per second of assembly language code . |
| 16 | and all that sort of thing and how it affected people buying furniture because there was a very high luxury tax |