Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [verb] a higher [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Under these conditions they could have expected a higher failure rate . |
2 | Our data were subject to several constraints : a far lower response rate from probation officers in the second survey ; the effects of changes in agency policies and practices during the two survey years ( e.g. medics ' notifying practices , police detection efforts/successes ) ; the ‘ loss ’ of some users identified in the first survey , and of some new users , to institutions and agencies not covered by the research ( e.g. custody , rehabilitation units , drug agencies in adjacent areas ) ; disillusionment with some agencies among heroin users ( particularly medical services ) , which may have produced a higher ratio of unknown to known users than in the previous year ; the optimistic assumption of 20 per cent annual outcidence-for instance , one review of follow-up studies of opioid users suggests that outcidence after one year is typically around 10 per cent , and may only reach 40–50 per cent after ten years , even for those who have received ‘ treatment ’ ( Home Office 1986 , ch. 7 ) ; and the decline in the size of the youth population , due largely to the drop in the birth rate during the 1960s-that is , the absolute number of known heroin users could decrease while the rate per 1,000 youths remained the same or even increased ( the population figures from which our prevalence rates were calculated derived from 1981 Census statistics , and do not take into account projected trends ) . |
3 | These factors increase the overall spread in their data and may have allowed a higher correlation between the measures . |
4 | He adds : ‘ What people mean when they say we 're not efficient is that they would prefer to have a higher quality of service . ’ |
5 | ‘ What people mean when they say we 're not efficient is that they would prefer to have a higher quality of service . ’ |
6 | Robert did not like to think of himself as a snob , but , had he been in charge of the Independent Wimbledon Day Islamic Boys ’ School , he would have expected a higher standard of civility from the cleaning staff . |
7 | Conservative group leader Tony Richmond accused finance committee chair Jan Taylor of saying the council would have set a higher budget if it were not for government spending constraints . |
8 | In Chapter 14 we saw that risky activities on average will need to earn a higher rate of return to compensate for the higher risks involved . |
9 | It is a tribute to the awe in which Indirect Rule was held in the 1920s that their pretensions were taken seriously : few deliberative bodies in history can have had a higher regard for themselves as repositories of political wisdom than did the Conference of Residents . |