Example sentences of "higher [conj] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would move councils towards a ‘ sensible pattern of rents ’ , in which they would generally be lower in parts of the country where the value of houses and flats was lower , and higher where the values were relatively high . |
| 2 | It is also reported that in 10 WFS countries of Sub-Sahara Africa , the proportion overall of babies dying within the first month of life is 50 per cent higher and that post neonatal mortality is 25 per cent higher where the mother was under age 20 than where she was 20–29 at the time of the birth . |
| 3 | The rate of tax ( the ‘ poundage ’ ) differs ; it is higher where the property values are lower and where the needs for local expenditure are greater . |
| 4 | The award is higher where the employer is found to have discriminated against the employee under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 , the Sex Discrimination Acts 1975 and 1986 and the Race Relations Act 1976. ( iv ) Special award Special awards are made where a dismissal relates to trade union membership . |
| 5 | The average age of the overseas membership is somewhat higher that the UK average as there are very few younger members to join these branches . |
| 6 | In terms of use , the status of e-mail messages ( excluding mailed WP documents ) , in most companies , is somewhere higher than a telephone call or a hand-written note but lower than a formal memo or report . |
| 7 | Because if you eat a regular high carbohydrate diet then your BMR is likely to be higher than a person eating a high fat diet . |
| 8 | It was a little higher than a man , and it ended , rough and unfinished , in the centre of the clearing around the bank of screens . |
| 9 | Most bears were small and black , sometimes no higher than a man , but this great , shaggy-furred animal reminded him of stories he had heard from knights who had served with the Teutonic Orders in the wild black forests of the north . |
| 10 | Rates will vary : commission rates for exhibitions may well be higher than a gallery 's normal rate . |
| 11 | Dall has produced writing to the staggering scale of 250 bibles to the square inch , small enough to write one bible on a pinhead , but the individual letters on that scale are so minute , no higher than a micrometre ( one or two wavelengths of visible light ) , that they are at the limit of resolution of optical microscopes . |
| 12 | an octave higher than a blackbird 's , |
| 13 | Excluding prices of food , drink and tobacco , regarded as a more reliable guide to the underlying trend , factory gate prices rose 0.5 per cent during September and were 5.5 per cent higher than a year earlier . |
| 14 | In the US , meanwhile , there was a sharp jump of 0.9 per cent in September wholesale prices , which were 4.5 per cent higher than a year ago . |
| 15 | Production of luxury cars at Jaguar rose by 56% in the first four months of the year , largely due to increased demand in its biggest market , America , where sales in the first four months were 27% higher than a year ago . |
| 16 | In all seven broad industry categories monitored by TI , the level of failures was higher than a year previously . |
| 17 | It is higher than a year ago in every EFTA country and in every G7 country except Japan . |
| 18 | higher than a year ago . |
| 19 | Last year in the USA , AIDS cases in women were nearly 10pc higher than a year ago , and AIDS was now the leading cause of death in nine leading US cities for women of childbearing age . |
| 20 | In the eyes of Louis , his near-drowning had been an act of self-emasculation , a loss of face tumbling him down the social scale to a level little higher than a peon 's . |
| 21 | By 1948 , although living standards in general were no higher than a decade previously , the average domestic consumer was using twice as much electricity as then , but paying only half as much for it per kWh in real terms . |
| 22 | I had just enough sense to appreciate that as a pain it rated no higher than a toothache . |
| 23 | Manager Frank Gray said : ‘ I think the standard of the Third Division is higher than a lot of people expected . |
| 24 | ‘ That 's a lot higher than a lot of our competitors are achieving . ’ |
| 25 | Anyway ; he brought down this book ; history of the War in pictures , and it had like all these photos of the death camps , where the Nazis murdered millions of Jews , and communists , and homosexuals , and gypsies and anybody else they did n't like … but mostly Jews , and there were like just piles of bodies ; incredibly thin bodies , like bones ; skeletons wrapped with tissue paper , and piled higher than a house … and pits ; long pits full of bodies , and the metal stretchers they were put onto to be shoved into the ovens , and the piles of wedding rings and spectacles ; glasses , and even artificial legs and weird stuff like that … |
| 26 | ‘ For smaller businesses , the American Express card today will probably cost less than other cards and will certainly not be higher than a bank card . |
| 27 | Simply stated , the argument is that the cost of capital of a corporation with management that trades on inside information will be higher than a corporation with management that does not engage in such trading . |
| 28 | She was inspired , it is argued , by nothing higher than a desire for self-advertisement and for the applause of Voltaire and his fellow-writers in Western Europe . |
| 29 | Some children grasp the idea of standing on a box or steps to become higher than a tower or other object that is taller than themselves , so that , intuitively at least , they have some idea of the distinction between taller than and higher than . |
| 30 | ‘ The benefit is higher than the cost , ’ he said . |