Example sentences of "[vb -s] the higher [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This technique is not as useful as the torsional pendulum but covers the higher frequency range 10 to 103 Hz . |
| 2 | The increase in the number of elderly people , together with a rise in the proportion living alone , has boosted the number of small households , as too has the higher divorce rate . |
| 3 | Statistics also reflect a rise in accidents among children aged up to 16 , and Darlington still has the higher share of accidents involving 17 year olds and over . |
| 4 | Component 1 has the higher partition coefficient and thus moves through the column faster . |
| 5 | The projected scheme of capping , which limits any council tax increase to £180 odd over the poll tax both favours the higher bands and are applied without any regard to need . |
| 6 | Map 12 shows the first floor of the Castle , and Map 13 shows the higher floors of the Great Tower . |
| 7 | The foreground hills are formed from a series of small intrusions that were precursors of the main granite , which forms the higher ground of Lochnagar . |
| 8 | It acts as a so-called mind-expanding drug , ’ he added with distaste , ‘ which opens the higher centres of the brain that humans are n't ready to use yet . |
| 9 | The third reason cited attributes the higher proportion of dangerous lobon-gur mixtures found in Phase 2 unions to the fact that by reducing the prototype ‘ Ten Points to Remember ’ to ‘ Seven Points to Remember ’ ( mentioned in chapter 4 ) there was a reduced emphasis on the dangers of adding too much salt . |
| 10 | Writing from a similar perspective , Collins attributes the higher salaries of the more educated employees to the certification process rather than to their higher productivity , i.e. , the increasing tendency by employers to select and promote employees according to the education credentials they hold . |
| 11 | Instead , the buyer should seek to ensure that the consideration reflects the higher risk to the buyer and the terms which the seller wants for completing the disposal . |
| 12 | Covenanted donations to charities for a term of more than three years can be offset against tax if you are someone who pays the higher rate of tax . |
| 13 | Wrangham explains the higher success of older animals in terms of cost per effort decreasing with age . |
| 14 | To ask the Secretary of State for Transport when he expects the higher standards of residual stability recommended by the steering committee of the roll on/roll off ferry safety research programme to be applied to all roll on/roll off ferries using British ports . |
| 15 | The advantages of these are that they last much longer and cost much less to run ( the saving well outweighs the higher asking price ) ; their disadvantages are that the light they give is not quite so ‘ warm ’ and does not come on instantly . |
| 16 | When shall we learn that whoever touches the higher life and well-being of the family still more vitally affects the wider family of the State , and threatens its disintegration … the State as an organized polity , capable of embodying , preserving and promoting the higher life of the nation . |