Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [conj] higher [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The stockmarket is vulnerable to any hint of Fed tightening and higher interest rates . |
| 2 | If power is represented as being ‘ middle class ’ , or a member of the ‘ party apparatchik ’ , the consequence is the same , the distribution of educational opportunities is progressively in its favour , with more of its children attending secondary education and even more attending tertiary or higher education . |
| 3 | Women had been found to have similar or higher achievement motivation than men , but they showed less susceptibility to techniques designed to arouse this motivation . |
| 4 | Items in three contexts in particular led to the girls consistently obtaining equal or higher success rates than the boys in the sample . |
| 5 | It is noteworthy that more than half did equivalent or higher level courses than those they applied for at the institutions we covered . |
| 6 | In the 1946 cohort the less able ( measured at age 11 ) and women with no qualifications start having babies earlier and are also more likely to go on to have third and higher order births and have them at shorter intervals . |
| 7 | Module 1 will examine Further and Higher Education Policy since 1944 . |
| 8 | Mellow orange pantiles seemingly cascade at many angles , surmounting buildings of varying heights , covering lower and higher ground . |
| 9 | 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 . |