Example sentences of "high than [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Manager Frank Gray said : ‘ I think the standard of the Third Division is higher than a lot of people expected . |
| 2 | ‘ That 's a lot higher than a lot of our competitors are achieving . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | She was inspired , it is argued , by nothing higher than a desire for self-advertisement and for the applause of Voltaire and his fellow-writers in Western Europe . |
| 5 | The financial effort the nation has been called on to make is a very large one , especially since the cost of construction per kW of nuclear capacity is about 25 per cent higher than the cost per kW of coal-fired capacity . |
| 6 | The counter in the shop was a little kiosk with a till which stood slightly higher than the rest of the room . |
| 7 | It could n't be the water table , because the site was higher than the rest of the garden . |
| 8 | Upthrusts of men and women forced cones of tangled , crushed bodies higher than the rest of the mass . |
| 9 | per head higher than the rest of the United Kingdom which would be jeopardised by any change in the constitutional arrangements . |
| 10 | Gastric juice ammonium concentrations were similar in the H pylori negative uraemic patients ( median 3 , range 0.5–11 mmol/l ) and H pylori positive non-uraemic patients ( 5 , range 1–11 ) ( p=0.2 ) , and both were significantly higher than the values for the H pylori negative non-uraemic patients ( 0.7 , range 0.1–1.4 ) ( p<0.02 for each ) . |
| 11 | higher than the plans for the current year and will provide for further expansion in health services . |
| 12 | Investment over the 1992–1994 period at £5.4 billion is forecast to be 22 p.c. down on the 1989–91 levels after allowing for inflation and the lowest since 1984–86 but still 30 p.c. higher than the depth of recession in 1981–1983 . |
| 13 | Using 1016 mb as the datum , it is clear that if the atmospheric pressure is higher than the datum of 1016 mb , the practical effect will be to give a lower water level than the predicted value . |
| 14 | The Buckinghamshire ratios were £71 per thousand in 1515 , £68 in 1524 and £79 in 1522 when the average for just about half of Berkshire was only marginally higher than the £88 for the complete county in 1515 . |
| 15 | ( 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 ) . |
| 16 | Already Robin 's fingernails are growing and blood is flowing through the hand , although he has little feeling higher than the base of his palm . |
| 17 | France scores a lot higher than the UK in legislation to protect individuals against the misuse of data that could threaten privacy . |
| 18 | The values obtained are still much higher than the estimates from the Williams , Landel , Ferry ( WLF ) equation . |
| 19 | Although the gastrin release in response to wine was diminished compared with controls it was still higher than the response to ethanol . |
| 20 | Crack use , however , may be much higher than the figures for seizures indicate if ‘ crack ’ is taken to include ‘ freebase . ’ |
| 21 | Because , at this level , the floor of the extension is considerably higher than the floor of the main block , the master bedroom is reached from this landing via a flight of five stairs . |
| 22 | The house next to Mrs. Sutton 's was of about the same age but as the pavement was almost a foot higher than the floor of the front room , it had two steps down inside the door . |
| 23 | The magnetic materials used in practice have a unc several orders of magnitude higher than the Er of practical dielectric materials . |
| 24 | But the price of meals to consumers is higher than the price of meals received by producers . |
| 25 | The dictum of the ancient Greek philosopher Protagoras , ‘ man is the measure of all things ’ , expresses a relativism with respect to individuals , whilst Kuhn 's remark ‘ there is no standard higher than the assent of the relevant community ’ expresses a relativism with respect to communities . |
| 26 | ‘ There is no standard higher than the assent of the relevant community . ’ |
| 27 | Unlike the sample as a whole , for whom the proportion with " stop-gap " first jobs was higher than the proportion with temporary first jobs , for those initially becoming unemployed as a result of the ending of a temporary job it was lower ( 38 per cent ) . |
| 28 | It may simply be said that what is needed for two events to be cause and effect as we understand them is that the probability of the second , given the first , is higher than the probability of the second , given the absence of the first . |
| 29 | The nearby River Great Ouse was higher than the level on the streets . |
| 30 | Their plans for growth are threatened by their apparent inability to find , retain and manage key staff — in fact , they rate the problem higher than the level of interest rates . |