Example sentences of "[be] high [subord] the [noun sg] of " in BNC.

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1 ( iii ) Fill the black watch glass with the spreading solution ( 0.2 M sucrose , made fresh and filtered ) ; the sucrose should sit in a nice " bubble " , and the level of the solution should be higher than the edge of the watch glass ( 6–7 nil ) .
2 The costs of going to court are likely to be higher than the value of the contract and the only beneficiaries are typically the lawyers .
3 If the enthalpy of the products is higher than the enthalpy of the reactants , the reaction is said to be endothermic .
4 But the price of meals to consumers is higher than the price of meals received by producers .
5 Using 1016 mb as the datum , it is clear that if the atmospheric pressure is higher than the datum of 1016 mb , the practical effect will be to give a lower water level than the predicted value .
6 It may simply be said that what is needed for two events to be cause and effect as we understand them is that the probability of the second , given the first , is higher than the probability of the second , given the absence of the first .
7 It could n't be the water table , because the site was higher than the rest of the garden .
8 A sample was considered positive for H pylori of its optical density was higher than the limit of the normal value , specified by the manufacturer .
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