Example sentences of "high as the [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this study , the glutamate/GABA ratio is raised in the epileptogenic hippocampus , particularly in the postseizure period when glutamate remains high as the GABA concentration returns to normal , which may cause the hippocampal damage characteristic of temporal lobe epilepsy , since a similar pattern is produced in normal animals by stimulation of excitatory input to the hippocampus . |
| 2 | I wish to go as high as the church steeple , ’ she told the broom firmly . |
| 3 | This episode put me off water for years , the platform had seemed almost as high as the Blackpool Tower which we had just visited . |
| 4 | in fact , in some cases fixed costs can enable the established firm to price as high as the monopoly level yet induce no entry — what Bain called " blockaded entry " ( see Dixit , 1979 ) . |
| 5 | Local physician Lia Giraldo da Silva Augusto says the mortality rate of young adults is as high as the infant mortality rate , which is 65 per 1,000 . |