Example sentences of "of [adv] high [noun pl] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From this overwhelming fact — signalled , be it remembered , most dramatically by Marx — have sprung a great number of the achievements , problems and conflicts of the late twentieth century : economic growth and the attainment of generally high standards of living , sustained partly by extensive welfare services , in the industrial countries ; the rapid growth of world population , due in part to vastly improved medical services ; changes in the structure of capitalism towards a more ‘ organized ’ form , and in the class system ; revisions of the socialist alternative , to some extent as a result of the relative success of ‘ welfare capitalism ’ ; the North-South divide ; the impact of population growth and industrialization on the environment ; and the shifting balance of economic power in the world . |
| 2 | Lower prices for West Indian sugar , according to American evidence which had been gathered , would encourage the use of more land and slaves in food production ; the result would be much better feeding of slaves than under a regime where owners took advantage of artificially high prices for cash crops to maximise profits and imported insufficient food for their labour force . |
| 3 | Despite the finding of fairly high correlations between cloze and reading comprehension as measured by multiple-choice tests ( in the order of 0.6 and above , depending on the nature of the study ) , some experiments have suggested that cloze may be measuring what one might call potential for understanding , rather than comprehension itself . |
| 4 | The setting of particularly high standards for uniformity and internal consistency makes it impossible to speak of the existence of almost any ‘ ism ’ in policy . |
| 5 | This grew from three to three and a half million by 1981 and was created by a combination of net immigration , earlier and more frequent marriage , and the maintenance of relatively high levels of childbirth . |
| 6 | With NCp7D , which does not form a stable complex with DNA , only a very minor fraction of the DNA was present in high molecular weight complexes , even in the presence of relatively high levels of protein . |
| 7 | Because a decline in the value of the pound against that of other currencies would aggravate the condition , the Government is constrained to try to maintain that value ; and to do so by the inducement of very high rates of interest . |
| 8 | Failure to link HLCA payments to a handicap zonation of the UK 's LFA , failure to limit the HLCAs paid per farm and ( until December , 1984 ) payment of very high levels of capital grants , are three important factors in initiating and escalating the nature conservation/agriculture conflict in the UK uplands . |
| 9 | Already there are indications from the Oban area of extraordinarily high losses in hill flocks , with many sheep having been drowned in the floods of late January and early February , but that may be nothing compared with what is in store , according to Mr Grant . |