Example sentences of "[be] high [subord] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a simple example of a prediction that can be tested using the laser vaporization tube set-up , the collapsing model predicts ( as does the pentagon road ) that the ratio of the C 70 yield to the C 60 yield will be high when the tube temperature is low , and vice versa . |
| 2 | Hence even a specific target , say " price to cover average costs ' , can be met in many ways , because average costs may be high because the firm is relatively inefficient , or low because it is relatively efficient . |
| 3 | Many GIS users assume , perhaps subconsciously , that data quality and reliability must be high because the technology used to manipulate them is sophisticated . |
| 4 | It will be higher than the Treasury bill rate . |
| 5 | The bracket furthest away from the downpipe position will be higher than the outlet to give a fall of 1 in 500 ( 4mm for each 2m length or 1in for each 40ft ) . |
| 6 | ( iii ) Fill the black watch glass with the spreading solution ( 0.2 M sucrose , made fresh and filtered ) ; the sucrose should sit in a nice " bubble " , and the level of the solution should be higher than the edge of the watch glass ( 6–7 nil ) . |
| 7 | He was one of those whose wisdom ( to recall the terms of Wyatt 's sonnet ) insisted on his maintaining an unchanged obedience to an authority he ultimately felt to be higher than the King 's . |
| 8 | However , a firm 's reported earnings ( also called accounting income ) are usually larger than the firm 's dividends , which would seem to suggest that the value of the firm based on earnings will be higher than the value based on dividends . |
| 9 | The costs of going to court are likely to be higher than the value of the contract and the only beneficiaries are typically the lawyers . |
| 10 | Even if both man and woman are earning a wage , the man 's wage will be higher than the woman 's and so his job more important than the woman 's . |
| 11 | Consequently the contribution of petrol lead to blood lead of adults would be higher than the average 24 per cent calculated for Turin . ’ |
| 12 | A forecast from the Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development suggests that Japan 's economic growth in 1993 will be higher than the average for the six other leading industrial nations . |
| 13 | The implied interest rate charged by the Bank on loans to the discount houses will usually be higher than the market rate on bills . |
| 14 | The opportunity cost of a resource may , in some circumstances , be higher than the resource 's purchase price . |
| 15 | You will pay interest charges on any money that is overdrawn ( which may be higher if the overdraft has not been formally arranged ) and usually the bank will charge fees to cover administration costs . |
| 16 | Heavy foods are soothing with their easy , empty calories ; we are lovers full of sugar , we are higher than the ceiling . |
| 17 | Well I would think our takings are higher than the cinema . |
| 18 | But in fact parts of the village are higher than the road , and |
| 19 | It 's not really helpful to be able to say , that the amount of money is too great , to refer to percentage increases which are higher than the figure that would have been included by erm erm an opposition group . |
| 20 | So far as I am aware , we have no evidence , for example , to show whether male unemployment which in some areas has been higher than the rate for females , has enabled tending tasks of old relatives to be taken on by men who remain at home . |
| 21 | Both comprehensibility ratings and recall scores were highest when the subject had seen the complete context picture before listening to the passage . |
| 22 | This may occur through the return on assets being higher than the growth in earnings or salaries . |
| 23 | But she also knows that relative shifts in demand occur and that these too can lead to her price being higher than the average . |
| 24 | Both of these groups had non-completion rates which were higher than the average for all students . |
| 25 | ( 1982 ) found that the proportions of bedwetting children were higher when the child showed other behavioural disturbance . |
| 26 | ‘ The benefit is higher than the cost , ’ he said . |
| 27 | Thus when , the minimum critical wage is lower but the minimum critical density is higher than the case where µ = 0 . |
| 28 | If the expected rate of inflation is higher than the break-even rate of inflation , investors will prefer the index-linked bond . |
| 29 | Its idagnostic efficiency in acute appendicitis is higher than the ESR . |
| 30 | Its figure is higher than the CBO 's largely because it does not take into account the fact that the quarterly long-bond auctions had already been pruned over the past year , from around $12 billion to $1.25 billion . |