Example sentences of "high than [art] [noun] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The apparatus is then pumped out and sealed under vacuum at the point A. Sufficient mercury is then added to enclose the polymer and extend into the capillary , after which the tube is sealed at B , and placed in a thermostat at a temperature somewhat higher than the melting temperature of the polymer .
2 The Albanian birth rate was much higher than the birth rate of Serbs and Montenegrins , and the composition of the population steadily shifted in their favour .
3 In the case of the high head , the stressed syllable which begins the head is high in pitch ; usually it is higher than the beginning pitch of the tone on the tonic syllable .
4 If the expected rate of inflation is higher than the break-even rate of inflation , investors will prefer the index-linked bond .
5 Excess salary costs will arise where the supply head is employed on a salary higher than the group size of the receiving school .
6 But although the ward 's unemployment rate is higher than the city average of 12 per cent , the council says the real unemployment blackspots are still the peripheral housing schemes .
7 Who would dust now , clean the bath , hoover the carpets , now that Franca did n't mount higher than the drawing room on the first floor ?
8 Crime has always been with us and Halling was no exception and it has been estimated that Kent 's crime rate in the 13th century was higher than any other county , and a statement by Prof. James Given , of Michigan , says that the percentage of murders at 23 per 100,000 in Kent was higher than the U.S.A. average of today .
9 In the late 1980s , teacher drop-out was around 20 per cent a year , higher than the drop-out rate among pupils .
10 Notice that the graph line has the same slope as x = y , but each y value is one place higher than the x value at any point on the line .
11 The implied interest rate charged by the Bank on loans to the discount houses will usually be higher than the market rate on bills .
12 These were not significantly higher than the % cytotoxicity of normal controls .
13 Where there are two people in the property the reduction will be given if two community charges are higher than the rates bill plus £52 .
14 Futures contracts do not require any carrying costs , for instance the loss of interest on money invested in margins , and so the futures price is higher than the spot price by Sr , the interest foregone by tying up £ S in the stock market .
15 The rate of liver protein synthesis in patients with inflammatory bowel disease was 43% higher than the control group of patients .
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