Example sentences of "[is] that a high [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The intuitive explanation for the negative slope of the aggregate demand curve is that a higher price implies , ceteris paribus , a lower real quantity of money in the economy since the real quantity of money is defined to be the nominal quantity of money , M , divided by the general level of prices , P 1 that is M÷P , One way in which people may respond to finding themselves with less real money than they had before is by selling off holdings of bonds to rebuild their holdings of money .
2 What seems to have happened over the last twenty years or so is that a higher proportion of juveniles are being dealt with officially by the police rather than being dealt with unofficially or warned .
3 The corollary of that is that a higher proportion of their income is spent on tobacco products .
4 The argument here is that a high correlation between an item and the overall test score means that the item contributes little new information which is not already tapped by other items .
5 Our experience at the Royal National Throat , Nose , and Ear Hospital over the past two years in a study of over 200 children aged 3–8 years with chronic ( more than six months ) or recurrent ( more than three episodes ) glue ear is that a high proportion ( over 80% ) have allergic rhinitis and that treatment of this is associated with resolution of the secretory otitis media in most cases .
6 Another problem with the vast number of previous publications on disturbed gastric function patients with DU is that a high proportion of the so called normal controls will have had disturbed gastric function due to unrecognised H pylori infection .
7 The most important consideration is that a high torque should be available at low speeds and therefore a small switching angle is chosen .
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