Example sentences of "[adv] high [noun pl] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Take into account the incredibly high standards of service in the excellent hotels and you have every possible ingredient for the ultimate holiday experience . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Tests revealed that he had abnormally high levels of insulin in his blood , which could only have been injected . |
| 7 | The behaviour of these fragmented monopolies is unlikely to be affected by abnormally high levels of unemployment . |
| 8 | The argument now is that , in order to finance welfare provision , governments have imposed unjustifiably high levels of taxation , which have hindered investment and reduced productivity , encouraged the brain drain and increased inflation . |
| 9 | Mr Faulkner says the caterers are often the first point of contact for conference visitors so high standards of food and service are essential . |
| 10 | O7 ppm although naturally high concentrations of mercury have been found in a number of locations , including Lake Windermere where mud dating back to the last century contains 0.7 ppm . ’ |
| 11 | When we are talking about directors of businesses , er particularly the larger companies , good people are hard to find and some of them are superstars , and er I know we 've heard a lot about er exceedingly high levels of pay and very high pay increases , er but when you talk about the superstars and megastars , what about the entertainment business , what about sport , what about , you know , golfing celebrities , earning in excess of a million , or racing drivers ? |
| 12 | The low pepsinogen A:C ratio in patients with hypertrophic gastropathy is mainly caused by the extremely high concentrations of serum pepsinogen C in these patients . |
| 13 | To nobody 's surprise , they discovered extremely high levels of anaemia , diabetes , bronchial disorder and child deaths — which might have been the result of poor diet , pollution and the general mess of the Soviet economy . |
| 14 | Anticipating extremely high levels of anxiety , the person no longer encounters the original situation of the supermarket . |
| 15 | One aboard you 'll enjoy the same extremely high standards of comfort and service that have made KD German Rhine Lines the country 's foremost cruise company . |
| 16 | Many field studies have used much higher loads of carbohydrate than we have because their main rationale was the ability to greatly increase available substrate without incurring a substantial osmotic penalty . |
| 17 | The findings , reported in the US journal Science , extend previous reports of limited success in immunising monkeys against much higher doses of SIV at the New England regional primate centre in Massachusetts and at the University of California . |
| 18 | ‘ I hope that the UK and the excellent example set by Colchester Zoo will lead the community to implementing much higher levels of animal welfare . ’ |
| 19 | However , in the presence of NCp7 and RT , much higher levels of cDNA were produced ( lanes 7–12 ) and 3–5 additional bands were seen when the products were exposed to UV . |
| 20 | After moving to a staffed house the person received much higher levels of assistance from staff as well as higher levels of other contact . |
| 21 | Figure 2.4 offers a broad international comparison which highlights the consequences of much higher levels of capital equipment per worker in large Japanese firms for the size of the productivity gap . |
| 22 | Thus , low dependency psychiatric patients were replaced by patients who required much higher levels of staffing without a commensurate increase in funding . |
| 23 | It provides a reality orientation programme , reminiscence therapy and the very much higher levels of staffing needed there have proved to be very important for the successful working of that project . |
| 24 | Traditionally , local authorities have produced weighty financial reports but over recent years many have adopted much higher levels of aggregation with the consequent reduction in report size . |
| 25 | There are clear technical issues such as the data transfer and memory implications of addressing much higher levels of display definition than are generally required today , particularly , of course , in consumer environments . |
| 26 | Secondly , we need to help all our flexible packaging companies achieve much higher rates of return . |
| 27 | The distinction between the Japanese profiles highlights the very marked tendency to reward length of continuous employment in large firms and is closely related to their much higher rates of union membership . |
| 28 | In the entertainments industry , too , it was suggested that seasonal staff exhibited much higher rates of turnover than regular staff . |
| 29 | ‘ Through proper application of existing technology , we are already seeing much higher rates of penetration . ’ |
| 30 | One of the main reasons for this is the need to maintain the quality of the front-line services to the membership in the face of much higher volumes of telephone and fax traffic . |