Example sentences of "[subord] [prep] the high [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the USA , for example , any use of nuclear weapons except under the highest authorisation would be illegal under US domestic law ( Collier , 1979 , p. 10 ) . |
| 2 | If we look at the actual numbers of cystoscopies performed you will you see that there were the vast majority of work was done in the lower and intermediate risk group patients er and the positive er cystoscopy rate erm was much lower in the lower risk group , as you would expect , than in the higher risk group . |
| 3 | The idea that supermarkets should be built on green field sites out of town rather than in the High Street would have seemed absurd only a few years ago . |
| 4 | It is subdivided into three geographical and administrative regions which are independent except at the highest level . |
| 5 | Infusion of bFGF subcutaneously in various doses ( 1–100 µg/kg/hour ) did not significantly alter gastric acid or pepsin secretion , although at the highest fose of bFGF ( 100 µg/kg ) gastric secretion tended to decline ; acid output fell to 103 ( 15 ) µmol/30 minutes and pepsin output fell to 0.76 ( 0.17 ) . |
| 6 | ( 3 ) That the existence of pending proceedings in a court of superior jurisdiction was a factor to be taken into account by a judge in deciding how in the interests of justice to exercise his powers to regulate proceedings in his own court ; that the district judge had properly assessed the situation and had not erred in refusing to postpone the trials in his court until after the High Court trial ; and that , accordingly , there had been no ground for interfering with his decision ( post , pp. 265F–G , 266G ) . |
| 7 | Dicta to the contrary in McPhail v Persons Unknown [ 1973 ] 3 All ER 393 are thought to be applicable only if in the High Court . |
| 8 | Women are to be found in the lower grades in large numbers but are much less common as the grades go up , until at the highest grade of all there are no women at all . |
| 9 | That is unlikely to be the case because of the higher cost of beef , lamb and pork in Britain compared with US production . |
| 10 | ‘ The withdrawal from ERM and the subsequent devaluation of sterling should be of particular benefit to Scotland because of the higher propensity to export . |
| 11 | ‘ And this figure is growing because of the higher proportion of plastic used in modern cars . |
| 12 | The higher death rate in women than in men is probably because of the higher proportion of elderly patients among them . |
| 13 | This is because of the higher Bond albedo of Venus . |
| 14 | Furthermore , because of the higher coefficient of variation paraffin embedded material cell cycle analysis is not as reliable as in fresh tissue of solid tumours . |
| 15 | Because of the higher picture quality , Super VHS ( and , to a lesser extent , Super VHS-C ) , has become a semi-pro premium format for the origination of recordings intended for post-production editing onto a copy tape . |
| 16 | Yes , erm very , very quickly , erm I notice that the swimming pool and river bathing visits had more than doubled , I just wondered what the cause of that was , and whether in fact it was mainly related to the swimming pools or to the river bathing bit erm places , and the second one is , regarding the noise , I notice that it has shot up , the number of visits to seven twenty one , but in fact , the prosecution 's only gone up to one , and I wondered if Mr Fenn could tell us whether in fact because of the higher profile that had been given to this erm activity , due to its possible cut , whether in fact more people are aware of it and there were more |
| 17 | Soft tissue sarcomas , although rare , are also very well demonstrated with MRI because of the high contrast between muscle ( low signal ) and tumour ( high signal ) on T2 weighted sequences . |
| 18 | Local spread of tumours arising in the cervix or uterus can be much more accurately assed with computed tomography , because of the high contrast between the abnormal tumour and the surrounding normal structures . |
| 19 | In laser surgery , CO 2 lasers ( wavelength 10.6 ) are widely used because of the high absorption in water , and therefore in any soft tissue . |
| 20 | Because of the high initial 1 1 1 In activity in the stools , it is necessary to delay counting of 5 1 Cr activity for 3 to 4 weeks to allow the 1 1 1 In to decay . |
| 21 | This is partly because we need to understand and classify the vast amounts of pottery recovered from excavations at archaeological sites , and partly because of the high success rate of such analytical projects . |
| 22 | In people , UV-B radiation is known to cause ageing of the skin , and because of the high correlation between sunshine and skin cancer , it is accepted that UV-B exposure of skin is directly linked to skin cancer ( Eaglemann , 1981 ) . |
| 23 | Re-exposure to these agents is not recommended within a cetain time because of the high antibody level and the risk of anaphylaxis . |
| 24 | This study , however , had to end prematurely , apparently because of the high relapse rate in the fibre rich group . |
| 25 | From their point of view living in physical isolation in a rural district is by no means a problem , not only because of the high level of local car ownership , but because they , unlike the planners , do not confuse the idea of social cohesion with the notion of geographical proximity . |
| 26 | In their case , usage rate is an important aspect of marketing because of the high level of fixed costs involved in operating a railway network . |
| 27 | This area was specifically targeted because of the high level of involvement of people living there in road accidents . |
| 28 | Large numbers of Kuwaitis were reported to be leaving the country during March because of the high level of pollution caused by the fires . |
| 29 | The reduction in Soviet assistance further increased Vietnam 's budget deficit , already large because of the high level of government subsidies to ailing state concerns , and because of measures to offset threatened increases in inflation and unemployment . |
| 30 | ‘ We beat off intense competition to win and one of the reasons we did was because of the high level of investment made in equipment by NOS . ’ |