Example sentences of "higher [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like higher animals it has a nerve cord , muscles , and a gut , with a brain at the mouth ( hardly a head ) end . |
| 2 | Pure ethanol in low concentrations ( <5% volume/volume ) is a mild stimulant of acid secretion whereas at higher concentrations it has either no effect or a mildly inhibitory one . |
| 3 | After an investigation by the Federal Cartel Office , DSD has offered to compensate independent waste collectors for the higher costs they incur . |
| 4 | The cooperation of consumers enabled the disruption of production to be minimised ; and the industry 's expertise in avoiding the more serious problems developed with experience and with the higher priorities they were granted for scarce coal supplies after the disastrous crisis of February 1947 . |
| 5 | These occur in nearly all orders of insects but are best developed in the more primitive groups ( Orthoptera , Dermaptera , Isoptera , Odonata ) ; in the higher orders they are more or less reduced . |
| 6 | At higher speeds it is difficult to dissipate sufficient of the energy of motion of the Moon for it to be captured and at the same time yield an Earth-Moon system that resembles the one that actually exists . |
| 7 | It was also believed by some that if they went on strike for higher wages they would be victimized by all the companies in the area . |
| 8 | But of course the higher standards they 've got no protection cos they did n't want what was offered . |
| 9 | Turning to coal instead , the higher temperatures it achieved enabled English glass makers to develop an intrinsically stronger product . |
| 10 | The reason is that hot water causes the pipes to expand to a greater extent than copper and at higher temperatures it can soften slightly and consequently ‘ sag ’ between supports . |
| 11 | In higher doses it can happen . |
| 12 | The convective state of the troposphere tends to raise cloud particles above the base , and at these higher altitudes they do not evaporate , because of the lower temperatures , and thus a cloud can have a considerable thickness perhaps extending towards the tropopause , above which convection is weak . |
| 13 | Up to about 200 km the dominant ion is O 2 + and at higher altitudes it is O + . |