Example sentences of "[noun] high [subord] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Investment over the 1992–1994 period at £5.4 billion is forecast to be 22 p.c. down on the 1989–91 levels after allowing for inflation and the lowest since 1984–86 but still 30 p.c. higher than the depth of recession in 1981–1983 . |
| 2 | The rate of conception in the 11–15 age group was almost 40pc higher than the national average and in the 16–19 age bracket , it was around 34pc higher . |
| 3 | When sailing downwind in light to medium winds , it is important to remember to sail the boat higher until the optimum boat speed is reached , at which time you can begin to work the boat down . |
| 4 | In potencies higher than the 12C the chances of even a single molecule of the original starting material still being present become more and more remote . |
| 5 | To get some idea of a possible solution to the problem that in potencies higher than the 12C none of the original starting material is likely to remain in the potency , we have to go back to some basic concepts of chemistry . |
| 6 | In potencies higher than the 12C , or 24X , the chances of even one molecule of the original starting material still being present are very remote . |
| 7 | A survey of nitrogen oxide levels in the atmosphere , also conducted by the JCCU , recorded concentrations in the Tokyo and Osaka areas higher than the 0.06 parts per million maximum level set by the environment agency . |
| 8 | It was ten or twelve feet higher than the square , surrounded by a stone wall with a granite coping and surmounted by a chain-wire fence to stop the children scrambling up and falling over . |
| 9 | The overall effect of the song in Rivendell is perhaps to show Bilbo approaching a body of lore and of poetry higher than the normal hobbitic vein , higher indeed than mortals can normally comprehend . |
| 10 | The eastern half was a warehouse , a storey higher than the mill and built later , around 1890 . |
| 11 | In fact Britain in 1989 had one of the highest fertility rates in Europe ; 1.8 , half a child higher than the astonishing 1.3 of Italy and West Germany , which are the lowest in world history . |
| 12 | But this , of course , makes no serious claim at all about the notion of consciousness , in the sense in which the word is normally used : it simply sets up a definition of the term on which virtually any organism higher than an amoeba is conscious , as would be many existing computers . |
| 13 | Mill 's famous ‘ proof is unpersuasive , as all such proofs must be , given either the infinite regress of supposed justifications higher than the ultimate justification or the viciously circular proposition that the ultimate justification is , illogically , its own justification . |
| 14 | The one time disabled people were really encouraged to set their sights higher than the usual occupations reserved for them , such as basketwork , needlework , shoe or watch repairing , was during the second world war . |
| 15 | The bronze antenna in the statue , 6ft higher than the twice-lifesize figure , is to be a flagpole on which a real flag will be raised and lowered daily . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | At 30th September 1992 the price was 265p , some 13% higher than the 30th June 1991 level of 234p . |
| 18 | It was erected on the site of ancient fortifications dating from about 500 B.C. When it was built , the castle was at least fifty percent higher than the ruined portion still standing , and was complete with turrets , battlements and curtain walls . |
| 19 | Er erm July , er June is erm , according to Chris 's seasonality figures , normally about erm twelve percent higher than the mean , erm so if they 'll take the mean at about , at being about three hundred and fifty , you know we 're looking at a figure of somewhere just over four hundred for July , as opposed to last July which was erm I think five er four hundred and ninety four complaints in the month , so it 's very unlikely that that output figure will continue going up next month . |
| 20 | My colleagues and I actually take no pleasure in agreeing to a rent increase which results in the highest public sector rates among our neighbouring districts er it is some eighteen percent higher than the average of eight local councils . |
| 21 | A tightening labour market , coupled with higher productivity growth , was reflected in higher wage settlements ( in the first quarter of 1989 wages increased by an average 5.2 per cent — one point higher than the previous year ) , with the accompanying risk of an increase in the inflation rate . |
| 22 | Relatedly , it afforded the wife no financial privacy ( except by couples opting to be taxed as two single persons , which ‘ paid ’ financially only if the loss of the husband 's allowance could be compensated for by a lower amount of income subject to a tax band higher than the basic rate ) . |
| 23 | per head higher than the rest of the United Kingdom which would be jeopardised by any change in the constitutional arrangements . |
| 24 | Erm , the revised estimate for police pensions is some hundred and nineteen thousand pounds higher than the original estimate . |
| 25 | As far as ninety four , five is concerned , erm the , er estimate is some six hundred and eighty- one thousand pounds higher than the the original estimate for this year , and again , there is a mix of factors giving rise to that . |
| 26 | The er , revised estimate is one one hundred and fifty thousand pounds higher than the original estimate , and we 're expecting over three hundred thousand pounds into the specific grant and ninety-four ninety- five . |
| 27 | Holding the shares in the index also gives the right to dividends , making the spot price higher than the futures price by the present value of the dividends ( D ) , plus the interest on this sum ( Dr ) . |
| 28 | The navy says an accident would not give anybody a dose higher than the four millirems per year limit set for drinking water in the US . |
| 29 | THE MEAN pressure at , for example , Aberdeen and Glasgow in February 1993 was some 22 millibars higher than the previous month 's values , resulting in docile weather for much of Scotland for most of the month , in stark contrast to January 's storms . |
| 30 | In the absence of a tax , free market equilibrium is at E and the wage is W. A wage tax makes the gross wage paid by firms higher than the net wage received by workers . |