Example sentences of "high than [art] [noun] of " 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 | The counter in the shop was a little kiosk with a till which stood slightly higher than the rest of the room . |
| 4 | It could n't be the water table , because the site was higher than the rest of the garden . |
| 5 | Upthrusts of men and women forced cones of tangled , crushed bodies higher than the rest of the mass . |
| 6 | per head higher than the rest of the United Kingdom which would be jeopardised by any change in the constitutional arrangements . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ( 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 ) . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The magnetic materials used in practice have a unc several orders of magnitude higher than the Er of practical dielectric materials . |
| 14 | But the price of meals to consumers is higher than the price of meals received by producers . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ There is no standard higher than the assent of the relevant community . ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Maximum depletion occurs between 20 and 22 km , slightly higher than the level of strongest depletion in Antarctica , which lies between 16 and 18 km . |
| 20 | If the enthalpy of the products is higher than the enthalpy of the reactants , the reaction is said to be endothermic . |
| 21 | My colleagues and I actually take no pleasure in agreeing to a rent increase which results in the highest public sector rates among our neighbouring districts er it is some eighteen percent higher than the average of eight local councils . |
| 22 | The entropy of gases is much higher than the entropy of solids . |
| 23 | One comes from revelation and inspiration , and is guided by a light higher than the light of human understanding , and a truth deeper than the truth of outward existence and accepts a changing reality that ultimately leads to freedom . |
| 24 | This scale , which can be looked upon either as mode 4 of a major scale ( eg. G major starting from C , or a C major scale with a ♯4th ) , or the major scale that is found a 5th higher than the root of the chord that you want to play it against . |
| 25 | Even in times of rapid inflation , interest rates are generally so much higher than the rate of price inflation that saving up to buy later normally works out better value for money . |
| 26 | The principal assumption in this valuation was that the investment return would be 3 per cent per annum compound higher than the rate of earnings increase . |
| 27 | A sample was considered positive for H pylori of its optical density was higher than the limit of the normal value , specified by the manufacturer . |
| 28 | Since about 35% of contacts at night are dealt with by telephone the amount of disturbance for individual doctors is considerably higher than the number of claims , and the stress created by night work is out of proportion with the small number of contacts with patients . |
| 29 | The inter-censal decade 1961–71 saw some very heavy losses : Liverpool recorded a population loss of 18.2 per cent of its population in the 1960s , Manchester 17.9 per cent , Newcastle upon Tyne 17.6 per cent and Birmingham 8.6 per cent — much higher than the losses of the 1950s . |
| 30 | The dish or pot should be filled to capacity without being so crammed that the fish comes higher than the rim of the pot . |