Example sentences of "[adv] high [noun] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This provides the reason why it was once extensively cultivated in the Aube , where its more southerly location and lack of limestone subsoil sometimes renders wines lacking the desirably high degree of acidity required for classic Champagnes . |
| 2 | The counter argument is that investors ought to have known that there was a risk involved , particularly those who put their funds in the Gibraltar fund at suspiciously high rates of interest in order to avoid UK taxation . |
| 3 | He is delighted and yesterday said : ‘ This is extremely good news because it is imperative that the cathedral has the ability to maintain its justifiably high standard of music , and a new organ is badly needed as the existing one is now beyond repair . ’ |
| 4 | Much of this argumentation is , of course , concerned with very broad states of language , and , as I have pointed out , can apply only at a rather high level of generality , because it is likely that in EModE , as in PresE , there were varying conditioned allophones of /a/ ( perhaps some front and some back , or some low and some low-mid ) . |
| 5 | The reason for this is that Field 's New Tribe is imbued with the rather vague mission of transmitting ‘ Western techniques ’ to traditional societies and although this opens the door to many fascinating details about the structures of culture contact , it is at a rather high level of generality for explanatory purposes and it seriously underplays the role of the classes responsible for capitalist expansionism . |
| 6 | In this sense , and at a rather high level of abstraction , the very possibility within discourse of a historically located cultural field , marked by internally contradictory relations and hence by particularly difficult questions of causation and explanation , is part of the problematic of bourgeois society ; that is , it is internal to , and historically related to , a particular historical-social stage ( see Burke 1981 ) . |
| 7 | Emotional isolation is also manifested in a rather high level of insecurity in the relationships between husbands and wives . |
| 8 | This does not mean that nothing was bought and sold in the independent sector , still less that the agricultural producers in it were self-sufficient , though it is probable that a rather high proportion of peasant agriculture was consumed on the peasant holding , or within the narrow limits of a local system of exchange , if only because the food demands of the small cities in so many areas could be supplied from within a radius of little more than one or two dozen miles . |
| 9 | If we go back to the first few minutes , or maybe even the first few seconds , there must have been an incredibly high density of matter near that point ? |
| 10 | Take into account the incredibly high standards of service in the excellent hotels and you have every possible ingredient for the ultimate holiday experience . |
| 11 | Furthermore , the whole street and most of the homes within were kept in a remarkably high state of cleanliness , owing to the fact that these were the homes of many professional people , such as doctors , dentists , teachers , rabbis and Church of Scotland ministers . |
| 12 | The ‘ Reactivate ’ series maintains its remarkably high standard of Techno tracks , offering GTO 's perfectly stupid ‘ Elevation ’ , Tox Two 's unstoppable ( unless you turn the power off , of course ) ‘ Rave Generator ’ and the almost legendary Prage Khan 's ‘ Injected With A Poison ’ . |
| 13 | In a report published in July 1991 the OECD found that " the economies of the old federal Länder … have exhibited a remarkably high degree of resilience and strength , combining faster growth with maintenance of low inflation , while the five new Länder have gone through a period of severe adjustment , involving in its initial stage heavy output and employment losses " . |
| 14 | However , when observed over long periods , many species are found to be generalist in that individuals of them are capable of taking advantage of ‘ specialist ’ interactions at any one time : the ‘ anachronisms ’ show this , as do the generalized pollinators on islands where plants have ‘ left their pollinators behind ’ , e.g. a cetoniid beetle , Mauseolopsis aldabrensis , visits 58% of all flowering species , native or introduced , of all colours and morphology , on the coral atoll of Aldabra off the African coast , but it shows a remarkably high degree of constancy in its foraging flights . |
| 15 | Whether it would have been possible against this background of practically continuous fighting in the south , more than a year before the first Vietnam war between France and the Vietminh is usually reckoned to have begun , for either side to have modified its objectives to the point where compromise could have been reached is obviously a question which is relevant to the origins of the Vietnam war and one must therefore look for the characteristics which , at least after the event , suggest a remarkably high risk of collision . |
| 16 | When one considers that relatively few women were accused , and that a large proportion of the population were children , it is clear that a remarkably high number of adult males , around one in five , were brought before the courts each year . |
| 17 | Now I have been digressing and let me say quite clearly that I never knew the answer and I do not know it now , how the tremendously high level of morale was sustained , not just in the Pathfinders , but throughout the Command as a whole . |
| 18 | The bill identifies much of the blame for the tremendously high rate of deforestation in India as belonging to the adivasis or tribal peoples , who have been systematically marginalised and impoverished for over a thousand years , and who have now retreated into the mountains and remaining forests of central India ( a close-up case study is provided of a tribal group , the Sora , in sect. 7.4 ) . |
| 19 | It is not difficult to show that even an apparently high level of detail in a criterion does not specify the test items unequivocally . |
| 20 | Rather than accepting this rather pessimistic view of human nature , social scientists have suggested two other reasons for surveys reporting such apparently high levels of satisfaction . |
| 21 | It is clear that the obligation not to use or disclose information may cover secret processes of manufacture such as chemical formulae , or designs or special methods of construction , and other information which is of a sufficiently high degree of confidentiality as to amount to a business secret . |
| 22 | Adults are at least able to acquire , even though this may not be at a sufficiently high level of competence . |
| 23 | The dynamic process generating endogenous economies of scale leads exchanges to compete by being first off the mark in a particular contract so as to achieve a sufficiently high level of trading , and consequently liquidity , and thereby low transactions costs for the traders in that contract . |
| 24 | Some horses who suffer chronic anxiety due to poor management or handling , already have a sufficiently high background of stress for only a single stressful incident , like injury , illness , or a new home , to precipitate them into colic or some other illness . |
| 25 | On 6 December , in my first speech for several years from the back benches of the House of Commons , I said : ‘ Our entry into the ERM was welcomed by both sides of the House and by most of the press , but it is now clear that the bands within which the pound is allowed to float are sustained only by damagingly high rates of interest in Britain . ’ |
| 26 | But all that was happening was , the overflow pipe from the Koi quarters was partially blocked : this meant that an abnormally high head of water was building up in the main pool , bringing the level above the sealed junction between liner and blockwork . |
| 27 | There is an abnormally high incidence of cancer and other diseases among families living along the course of the creek . |
| 28 | In the Highlands , faced with abnormally high rates of suicide , accidental death , alcoholism and heart disease , funds for health would be more than welcome , according to Highland Health Board . |
| 29 | Tests revealed that he had abnormally high levels of insulin in his blood , which could only have been injected . |
| 30 | The behaviour of these fragmented monopolies is unlikely to be affected by abnormally high levels of unemployment . |