Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] a higher [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This new , lower rate will be consistent with a higher yield on the assets in question as per the inverse relationship demonstrated earlier . |
| 2 | Therefore , should the shareholder be subject to a higher rate of tax he or she will have to make additional payments to the Inland Revenue . |
| 3 | As such they are ultimately subject to a higher rate of vulnerability factors and provoking agents . |
| 4 | Elwood brings his will o' the wisp style of play into direct opposition to the more solid technique of home skipper Derek McAleese who is keen to give early notice that his side are worthy of a higher standing . |
| 5 | Rather , being quasi-research activities , they are a means of promoting in students the higher-order thinking and reflection that are characteristic of a higher education . |
| 6 | Superior rooms are also available ; these rooms are larger with a higher standard of furnishing . |
| 7 | All over the south , men remembered , if they did not yet always act on , the tradition that serious offences , murder , rape , arson , ought to be justiciable in a higher court ; by 1091 , the Consuetudines et Justicie declared this Carolingian survival to represent the practice in Normandy . |
| 8 | He accepted that emperorship was responsible and that he was answerable to a higher power . |
| 9 | Graduates pass final examinations in a minimum of six subjects , three at a higher level , similar to A-level , and three at a lower level . |
| 10 | A more powerful figure it would not be possible to evoke from one of Leonard 's background , for it captures a significance which the kite could not : that man is only one of many free creatures , subject with them all to a higher power and influence . |
| 11 | Aircraft are responsible for a higher level of greenhouse gas emissions than previously thought , largely due to the disproportionately strong effect of nitrogen oxide ( NOx ) at high altitudes , according to new figures from the Energy Technology Support Unit ( ETSU ) based at Harwell , in the UK . |
| 12 | All Key classified holiday homes will provide at least some of the facilities found in those of a higher classification . |
| 13 | For menials to play those of a higher rank and breeding seemed a deep violation of the principle of fixed division on which civilization rested . |
| 14 | The Inland Revenue was particularly welcoming to those with a higher degree . |
| 15 | Recruiting those with a higher potential for appropriate customer service behaviour . |
| 16 | Within the sorry within the H B F projections , the populations grows by seventy thousand persons , so even though we have increased death statistics , mortality statistics where life expectancy is going to increase , by applying those onto a higher population you 're naturally going to have more deaths . |
| 17 | One Scottish observer noted that " both parties are angry to a higher degree than ever I saw them even in the Exclusion time " . |
| 18 | The line of such a woodbank may be marked by pollarded trees , which have , in effect , been coppiced at a higher level , above the reach of cattle . |
| 19 | Lower seroconversion rates in 9-month-olds than in 6-month-olds could be due to a higher incidence of infections with non-polio enteroviruses or other enteric pathogens , which are known to interfere with antibody responses to OPV . |
| 20 | If treatment is started with higher potencies e.g. LM 3 and above , then initial aggravations could also be due to a higher potency as with the centesimal potencies . |
| 21 | This was due to a higher number of reported sewage leakages . |
| 22 | But that was not a pleasant thought and Erika firmly pushed it away , thinking of movement from a lower to a higher stage of development , as Marx taught , and such as was taking place now , she and her mother sitting together , no longer like mother and daughter , teacher and child , but more like sisters . |
| 23 | Although the tendency for a , substantial share of the self-employed to classify themselves as " managers " ( see Creigh et al , 1986 ) reduces the meaningfulness of occupation analysis , the general picture is one of a higher share of self-employment amongst temporary workers who could be viewed as " professionals " and a much lower level amongst those in low grade white collar jobs . |
| 24 | This partial closure should still allow the same amount of carbon dioxide to enter , as the carbon dioxide gradient would be greater in a higher carbon dioxide environment , but should reduce the loss of water vapour as the humidity gradient will be little altered . |
| 25 | And we are likely to abandon the sphere of the concrete to the positivists and that of theory to the essentialists , rather than to theorize the relationship of the two at a higher level . |
| 26 | They all went about their duties mindlessly , vaguely aware of a higher power which directed their efforts , but largely in ignorance of its direction and purpose . |
| 27 | It was conceded that had any individual shareholder held a sufficient block to give him ‘ control ’ of the company then he might have been entitled to a higher price than the total market value of his shares , since he would then have been selling an item of property — control — additional to his shares . |
| 28 | By the ship 's articles , executed before the commencement of the voyage , the plaintiff was to be paid at the rate of £5 a month ; and the principal question in the cause was , whether he was entitled to a higher rate of wages . |
| 29 | Indeed , you will probably find it difficult to construct a logical argument to the effect that you are legally entitled to a higher sum than can be arrived at by applying the above calculation . |
| 30 | Few men other than Eliot have read through the lengthy catalogues of ritual in Frazer 's volumes and found those volumes to be ‘ throbbing at a higher rate of vibration with the agony of spiritual life ’ . |