Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] high [noun pl] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said the study found surprisingly high levels of discontent with body weight and shape in pre-adolescent girls and boys . |
| 2 | Glaxo rightly points out that Astra used very high levels of ranitidine , several hundred times the normal human intake and far greater than the doses of omeprazole Astra fed to rats . |
| 3 | In a joint statement , Councillor Gregory Campbell and Bill Irwin of the DUP said : ‘ The Child Poverty Action Group in Londonderry recently completed a survey of a number of estates , on of which was the Caw area , where they found very high incidences of deprivation . |
| 4 | Surveys of dolphin tissues for mercury carried out in 1978 by Japanese scientists showed very high levels of mercury in local dolphins . |
| 5 | In 1982 the programme area was extended to cover an adjoining neighbourhood , California Kirkbride , which registered similarly high rates of deprivation to the original six neighbourhoods ( Allegheny West , Central North Side , East Allegheny , Fineview , Manchester and Perry South ) . |
| 6 | To nobody 's surprise , they discovered extremely high levels of anaemia , diabetes , bronchial disorder and child deaths — which might have been the result of poor diet , pollution and the general mess of the Soviet economy . |
| 7 | Thames blamed unacceptably high levels of pesticide use by farmers , local authorities and British Rail for its poor showing . |
| 8 | Their work levels were lowest in writing , drawing/painting , or tasks which involved movement from one part of the room to another , and all three of these activities generated very high levels of routine behaviour . |
| 9 | In some cases new crops and local innovation made quite high levels of population density possible , and reduced the necessary fallow period to only one or two years . |
| 10 | Tests revealed that he had abnormally high levels of insulin in his blood , which could only have been injected . |
| 11 | 2 of the 6 patients had unusually high concentrations of glutamate : 75 ( 1.3 ) and 49 ( 2.4 ) mol/L in the epileptogenic hippocampus , and 68 ( 2.8 ) and 47 ( 1.8 ) mol/L in the non-epileptogenic hippocampus respectively . |