Example sentences of "[vb mod] be high [subord] [art] " in BNC.

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1 ( 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 ) .
2 The standard should be higher when a power to affect liberty was in issue .
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 The true velocities may be higher than the velocities measured in projection .
5 While the highest quality solution of Figure 15.4 may be higher than the highest achievable in Figure 15.3 , the demands on ability in the presence of constraint to achieve a position on the narrow success surface and the risk of emergence of new constraints in later phases of the project , greatly increase the risk of failure .
6 Libel damages call for a metaphysical evaluation of dignity , a compensation , in many cases , for loss of amour propre which may be higher than the courts would award for the loss of an arm or a leg .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 There are three possibilities ; people can be lost through death ( which may be a high proportion in an elderly congregation located in a retirement area ) , transfer out ( high in an old community due for demolition , or where people move in search of employment or as they are relocated or promoted ) , or reversion ( may be high where the social pressure is hostile to the church , or where church morale is at a low ebb ) .
10 Consequently the contribution of petrol lead to blood lead of adults would be higher than the average 24 per cent calculated for Turin . ’
11 Simply stated , the argument is that the cost of capital of a corporation with management that trades on inside information will be higher than a corporation with management that does not engage in such trading .
12 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 .
13 If there were not an expectation that the spot price at delivery will be higher than the current price of the futures contract , it is argued that the number of those who wish to hold a short position ( for instance , producers of the underlying physical asset hedging their risks ) would exceed the number who wish to hold a long position in the futures contract ( for instance , speculators ) .
14 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 ) .
15 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 .
16 It will be higher than the Treasury bill rate .
17 So it 's a better plan than ever , also the premiums for this will be higher than the level plan claim , but again once they 're set , they would n't increase , because your benefits are .
18 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 .
19 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 .
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