Example sentences of "higher [conj] [adj -er] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition , the Cabinet in approving a proposal may give a higher or lower degree of priority to it . |
| 2 | Allocating them to niches of higher or lower favour on a cabbalistic tree , they claimed to detect some principle of metamorphosis . |
| 3 | As to ‘ its effect upon national character ’ , Pearson thought that ‘ whether we are changing in the direction of a higher or lower morality is … the point that is most really at issue ’ . |
| 4 | The idea was that light waves traveled at a speed of 186,000 miles a second through the ether , which meant that an observer who was at rest relative to the ether would measure the speed of light to be about 186,000 miles a second , but an observer who was moving through the ether would measure a higher or lower speed . |
| 5 | Assume that a test marketing exercise can be carried out , at a cost of £10k , to establish whether the higher or lower market share is the more likely . |
| 6 | Assume that a test marketing exercise can be carried out , at a cost of £10k , to establish whether the higher or lower market share is the more likely . |
| 7 | If the sales mix and the profit margins of the two products are different this causes problems because while overall sales volumes targets may be achieved total contribution will vary depending upon whether the higher or lower margin product dominates the sales mix . |
| 8 | But any individual market or island may experience somewhat higher or lower demand than average , those with lower than average demand cancelling out those with higher than average demand . |
| 9 | They do not tell us why the level is set at its current average rather than some much higher or lower figure . |
| 10 | Towards the end of the 12 months , we will need to review your needs with you and , if appropriate , renew the overdraft arrangements at the same level or at a higher or lower figure . |
| 11 | The essential principle of this Lift ( which is to be used in lieu of a flight of locks ) is floating of the barge or vessel into a tank and the conveying of that tank with its floating load broadside up or down a slope or inclined plane to a higher or lower pond of the canal respectively into which it is floated from the tank , which is left ready for another barge going in the opposite direction . |
| 12 | In any case it was Shirley who had typed the card and she was in a higher or lower world that cared nothing for such trivia . |
| 13 | Variations in the ability to convert income to a capital gain , plus the fact that such gains are more significant in higher than lower income brackets , means that any favourable treatment they might receive would be inequitable . |
| 14 | The Middle East Economic Digest of July 13 quoted a senior government official as stating that the total foreign debt of united Yemen stood at US$7,256 million as of March 1990 , a figure substantially higher than earlier World Bank estimates . |
| 15 | And then the real work begins , to work it up to a higher and higher level , and this surely can not be done until you have fifteen or twenty years working with the one orchestra . |
| 16 | The task of maintaining existing production levels has therefore come to consume a higher and higher share of national output . |
| 17 | We could solve our problems only if education received a higher and higher budget , either from the proceeds of an expanding economy or from receiving a higher proportion of an economy in steady-state . |
| 18 | On the other hand , an alternative theory put forward by R. Hagedorn of CERN , the European Organization for Nuclear Research in Geneva , argues that there is an infinite number of elementary particles of higher and higher mass . |
| 19 | Like all the maidens , in all the stories , half seduced and half petrified , she consented to Fenna 's plans and he swept her high on his great wings and bore her away over the roofs of London and higher and higher cavorting and caracolling through the star-spun night . |
| 20 | This.vertical Phillips curve ( labelled LPC in Fig. 6.4 ) can be regarded as a warning to policy-makers that continued attempts to reduce unemployment below its natural level can only lead to higher and higher inflation rates and no long-run decrease in unemployment . |
| 21 | The markets are demanding a higher and higher premium to hold sterling and they may sell it unless and until it reaches 2.80 against the mark . ’ |
| 22 | The superseding of medieval forms of agricultural exploitation had taken centuries ( and was still going on in some parts of Europe in 1880 ) , but the decisive changes were over ; the worker had been freed from indissoluble ties with the land , that land itself was increasingly treated as a commodity like any other , and it absorbed more and more capital to make higher and higher production possible . |
| 23 | They have made it their business to gain real knowledge in the political sphere , because they belong to a great consumers ' organisation with the definite purpose in view of production for use rather than for profit , and of the development of a higher and nobler system of society . |
| 24 | There were also smaller groups of higher and lower caste people from these areas and in addition there were people from the villages of Sylhet , a district of Bangladesh . |
| 25 | From Morwenstow , a well marked and well trodden path winds along the cliff edge , past Higher and Lower Sharpnose Point where government satellite receiving dishes look like monstrous props from a 1960s science fiction film . |
| 26 | Herzberg developed a more sophisticated analysis of the significance of higher and lower order needs . |
| 27 | Suffice it to say that after two centuries of higher and lower criticism we just can not approach the Bible in the way that former Christians did . |
| 28 | The invention consists essentially of a system of lifts each formed by a wet dock wherein the vessel to be transported is waterborne , the dock being mounted on a wheeled carriage adapted to support the dock horizontally and to run on inclined railways extending between the higher and lower water levels , the ways being transverse to the length of the dock which travels broadside on so as to admit of a short length of wheel base and a steep grade . |
| 29 | We will continue to increase the number of places in higher and further education and will complete our reforms of the system . |
| 30 | Beyond the library orientation stage the pattern of user education in higher education shows marked differences between the university and polytechnic libraries on the one hand and the colleges of higher and further education on the other . |