Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] a [adv] high [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The toxicity of EAP is considerable with grade 3–4 myelosuppression occurring in an unacceptably high proportion of patients . |
| 2 | They may have a requirement where they are looking for a very high return on capital employed and need to attract and retain the very best people in order to achieve that . |
| 3 | Of course during the er during the course of this year we will be considering prototypes which will enable those young people to reach that high level of qualification but he will be aware that under the national training and education target there are some of those targets which are directly related to the points that he has raised and the important priority for this government is to ensure not only that we have young people training to an even higher level but through programmes like investors in people , that we encourage every member of the work force and those er who are primarily unemployed at the present time , to train to even higher levels of qualifications . |
| 4 | The holes in Emmenthal are the result of the lactic acid in the cheese undergoing a secondary fermentation owing to a slightly higher temperature in the storeroom at the beginning of the cheese 's ripening period . |
| 5 | In the pre-robotised days the job had a number of characteristics which job design experts would have recognised as leading to a reasonably high level of job satisfaction . |
| 6 | As Tables 5 and 6 , above , demonstrate , each period surveyed shows a broadly similar pattern of usage , with modern material forming a high proportion of all items of known date issued , and with material published in the decade prior to each survey accounting for a particularly high proportion of all dated issues supplied . |
| 7 | This election , is a clear choice between over spending , and over zealous ideas , resulting in an unnecessarily high Poll Tax being levied on us all by a Labour Council out of control , up to its eyes in debt , overspent and overstaffed — or a sane , reasonable planned Conservative Council of common sense . |
| 8 | It should be visible to the naked eye as a fuzzy patch ( without a tail ) two to three times the size of the Moon , and moving at a relatively high speed — by about its own diameter every hour . |
| 9 | Although more resilient , and easier to handle as well as coming in a far higher range of breaking strains ( up to 200kg or over 400 1 b ) , braid is still vulnerable to kinks and twists . |
| 10 | From this tradition have emerged a number of notable black Gospel choirs , some of them performing to a very high standard . |
| 11 | We do n't expect to do it overnight , though — it 's only when we are performing at a consistently high level that customers can forget some of their previous unsatisfactory experiences . |
| 12 | It 's only when we are performing at a consistently high level that customers can forget some of their previous unsatisfactory experiences ’ . |
| 13 | With general interest in Australia running at a reasonably high level in Japan , the exhibition is expected to attract some 250,000 visitors . |
| 14 | Some writers on intonation claim that the intonation pattern starting at a fairly high pitch , with a gradual dropping down of pitch during the utterance , is the most basic , normal , ‘ unmarked ’ intonation pattern ; this movement is often called declination . |
| 15 | Cos there they had a stark choice then of voting for erm a very low community charge and potentially voting for a very high community charge . |
| 16 | So we get two things , we get a very good new personality , and secondly , an intelligent personality , and , therefore , and this is an important part of the strategy , she gets out of the other archaeologists she 's talking to a much higher level of interaction and intellectual interchange than she would if she were simply a standard presenter . |