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 | Radio-opaque shapes are clinically the most useful for quantifying colonic transit ; movement of barium involves unacceptably high doses of radiation and radioisotope studies need access to imaging equipment and the patient has to be immobilised during the scans . |
| 17 | Thames blamed unacceptably high levels of pesticide use by farmers , local authorities and British Rail for its poor showing . |
| 18 | Telephone interviews with over 400 Scottish businesses , typifying the community , picked up impressively high rates of satisfaction . |
| 19 | The SAE , two or three days later would ask the client to pay ludicrously high sums of money for additional contracts . |
| 20 | From this overwhelming fact — signalled , be it remembered , most dramatically by Marx — have sprung a great number of the achievements , problems and conflicts of the late twentieth century : economic growth and the attainment of generally high standards of living , sustained partly by extensive welfare services , in the industrial countries ; the rapid growth of world population , due in part to vastly improved medical services ; changes in the structure of capitalism towards a more ‘ organized ’ form , and in the class system ; revisions of the socialist alternative , to some extent as a result of the relative success of ‘ welfare capitalism ’ ; the North-South divide ; the impact of population growth and industrialization on the environment ; and the shifting balance of economic power in the world . |
| 21 | Canid assemblages have generally high levels of digestion of the molars both in terms of degree and numbers affected ( Fig. 3.21 F-I ) , and they fit well with category 5 , but the small African canid , the bat-eared fox fits category 3 in all respects ( Fig. 3.21 G-H ) . |
| 22 | The Centre Party campaigned mainly on economic issues , criticizing the government for having caused the current recession , the worst since 1945 , with voters affected in particular by unprecedentedly high levels of interest rates and of unemployment ( 7 per cent in 1990 ) . |
| 23 | Thus high rates of job loss might be expected in areas where there is a high rate of technological innovation , but this may also be associated with an equally high rate of job creation . |
| 24 | The initiative aims at further enhancing already high standards of food hygiene in tenanted houses . |
| 25 | Sadly , the methods used in food processing to boost flavour and enhance colour and texture are all too often detrimental to the nutritional value of the product : natural vitamins , minerals and fibre may be removed , and salt , sugar and cheap fats are introduced , all of which contribute to the already high levels of heart disease prevalent in this country . |
| 26 | In the early 1980s the contents of a vacuum cleaner bag were analysed and ‘ worryingly high levels of radioactivity in the house dust ’ were disclosed , Mr Sedley said . |
| 27 | Three reasons were given to explain the observation that samples of lobon-gur mixture from Phase 1 unions were less likely to contain dangerously high amounts of salt than samples from Phase 2 unions . |
| 28 | They , they have found dangerously high levels of benzene in Glasgow , Edinburgh , and other places , and this benzene apparently it can cause cancer . |
| 29 | Vegetables grown near city centres , particularly lettuce , cabbage , spinach and parsley , contain dangerously high levels of lead . |
| 30 | * Pregnant women are warned about eating liver as animal feeds that are fortified with liver have caused unnaturally high levels of Vitamin A which is stored in the body 's fat and can prove to be toxic in overdose . |