Example sentences of "[Wh det] [verb] the high [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Others , which display the higher growth rates of the Pacific countries , the greater per capita incomes of their peoples , and the steadily increasing volumes of iron ore , oil and containerized trade crossing the Pacific , are powerful indicators of an undeniable trend . |
| 2 | As far as Humphreys is concerned , firms which occupy the high ground in executive search are not necessarily limited in the variety , volume or type of search work that can be undertaken ; for example , Tyzack 's recent work includes finding the chairman of London Transport , looking simultaneously for three chief executives for an international trading company in the Far East , Europe and the US ( none of whom was to earn less than US$450 000 ) , searching for the chairman of the Monopolies & Mergers Commission , tracking down the chief executive of a building society and the MD of a conglomerate which , during the search , was defending itself against likely take-over bids . |
| 3 | Kenneth Leventhal , which reported the highest growth rate in the top 10 , at 9.7% , specialises in real estate . |
| 4 | The distinction , termed ‘ polarisation ’ was deemed necessary to make more transparent to customers the possible ties of their advisers , and to eliminate the ability of an intermediary to pass off as an independent adviser yet suggest the policies of the advisers ' own company ( or those which provide the highest commission ) . |
| 5 | The strongest growth of total employment was reported by the USSR , in Scandinavia ( which has the highest proportion of its population at work ) , and in a number of countries in central and eastern Europe such as Austria , Yugoslavia and Romania ( a broadly similar pattern is evident for manufacturing employment ) . |
| 6 | NOT have an accident in Nepal , which has the highest number of potential patients per hospital bed . |
| 7 | This compares with 2.2 per cent for the nation as a whole , and 3.3 per cent in the South-West , which has the highest concentration of Civil Service jobs . |
| 8 | The chief factor which causes the high modulus on this model ( since the crystallinity also increases somewhat on drawing ) is therefore the increase in which is a measure of the average longitudinal crystal thickness . |
| 9 | Because there were relatively few situations which received the highest risk ratings it is not possible to clearly assess whether this increase continues for all ratings , there is some evidence that it may not since once one unusual subject 's data was removed the three situations receiving the highest subjective risk ratings were in fact never recalled . |
| 10 | The results for the junction which received the highest risk ratings , junction 9 , will be considered to illustrate this , see Table 4.4 . |
| 11 | At the top right of the figure , which shows the highest level of completeness , there is a cluster of owl assemblages containing the same species that made up the typical owl pattern designated in the previous section : barn owl , long-eared owl , short-eared owl , great grey owl and Verreaux eagle owl . |
| 12 | Part of the reason for this is illustrated in figure 3 which shows the high proportion of Office machinery and data processing exports destined for Europe . |
| 13 | The peak of the London antique fair season is undoubtedly the month of June which sees the high gloss of Grosvenor House . |
| 14 | At many points in this chapter we have noted the problems of trying to define child abuse , identifying the characteristics which separate the high risk from the rest and hence aid prediction , together with the problems of constructing preventive and treatment interventions which concentrate exclusively on child abuse . |
| 15 | The foreground hills are formed from a series of small intrusions that were precursors of the main granite , which forms the higher ground of Lochnagar . |
| 16 | Optimal scaffolding is that which promotes the highest level of functioning with the minimal level of support ; a child who is having difficulty in making herself understood may require a great deal of support ; a few minutes later that same child dealing with a different topic may become relatively fluent and require a much lower level of adult participation . |
| 17 | ( It was , of course , the load at peak times which imposed the highest costs on the system , partly because it was then that the least efficient power stations were used for generating , but principally because , since electricity could not be stored , it was the peak load which determined expenditure on new capacity . ) |
| 18 | It acts as a so-called mind-expanding drug , ’ he added with distaste , ‘ which opens the higher centres of the brain that humans are n't ready to use yet . |
| 19 | In Glasgow a fortuitous coalition of interests between a new Convenor or Housing Committee , a principal housing officer and a flamboyant local designer produced a remarkable decade of high-rise building , which included the highest blocks in Europe at Red Road . |
| 20 | The limited value of such an analysis is illustrated by the large standard error in the birth weight-blood pressure regression coefficient at 4 days , which reflects the high correlation of the two weight measures . |
| 21 | So why did the British Greens ( to take the national party which won the highest percentage of the vote ) do so well in the 1989 Euro-elections ? |
| 22 | We have seen the deep resentment of the chairmen at Gaitskell 's imposition of the Clow differential , which was an attempt to create a pricing structure which reflected the higher winter peak costs ( pp. 36–8 , above ) . |
| 23 | Prior to nationalisation rural areas had been served either by companies ( which charged prices which reflected the higher costs of rural supplies ) , or by nearby local authority undertakings extending beyond their municipal boundaries . |
| 24 | The two IT subject areas which had the highest proportion of SERC-funded students in employment and the lowest levels seeking were micro-electronics and the IKBS/MMI/AI group . |
| 25 | Leukaemia cases in children under four were almost double the expected number in rural areas which had the highest concentrations of oil-related workers . |
| 26 | At the foot of the Himalayas lies Nepal , a sleepy , little-altered country guarding the huge bulk of terrain which yields the highest mountain in the world . |
| 27 | In other words — in , to be precise , the words of the public relations bureau of the Cucumber and Tomato Marketing Board — the tomato which commands the highest price is an all-purpose ( or is it non-purpose ? ) product ; " not every mouth " and I quote " can afford to choose caviare instead of kippers or an aristocratic difficult low yielding variety of tomato rather than a less fastidious tomato with a heavy yield . " |
| 28 | Mr Achieng Oneko might well have added , using the same argument , that the capitalist private press is unlikely to serve other minorities and tends to favour socio-economic groups which have the highest spending power and therefore attract the most advertising . |
| 29 | The lexicon contains 4000 words which have the highest frequency of occurrence according to the American Heritage Word Frequency Book ( Carroll , Davies & Richman , 1971 ) . |
| 30 | It appears that highly productive authors will not necessarily publish in those journals which have the highest circulation , and which hence are presumed to be those used for those papers which an author wishes to reach the largest possible readership . |