Example sentences of "a high [conj] [adj -er] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We could solve our problems only if education received a higher and higher budget , either from the proceeds of an expanding economy or from receiving a higher proportion of an economy in steady-state . |
| 2 | The task of maintaining existing production levels has therefore come to consume a higher and higher share of national output . |
| 3 | And then the real work begins , to work it up to a higher and higher level , and this surely can not be done until you have fifteen or twenty years working with the one orchestra . |
| 4 | The markets are demanding a higher and higher premium to hold sterling and they may sell it unless and until it reaches 2.80 against the mark . ’ |
| 5 | They have made it their business to gain real knowledge in the political sphere , because they belong to a great consumers ' organisation with the definite purpose in view of production for use rather than for profit , and of the development of a higher and nobler system of society . |
| 6 | I have consistently supported the idea of a higher and further education council for our institutions in Scotland . |
| 7 | The " new nurse " would have a higher and broader level of competencies , expected to make and be fully accountable for all decisions regarding the care given to patients . |
| 8 | In addition , the Cabinet in approving a proposal may give a higher or lower degree of priority to it . |
| 9 | As to ‘ its effect upon national character ’ , Pearson thought that ‘ whether we are changing in the direction of a higher or lower morality is … the point that is most really at issue ’ . |
| 10 | The idea was that light waves traveled at a speed of 186,000 miles a second through the ether , which meant that an observer who was at rest relative to the ether would measure the speed of light to be about 186,000 miles a second , but an observer who was moving through the ether would measure a higher or lower speed . |
| 11 | In any case it was Shirley who had typed the card and she was in a higher or lower world that cared nothing for such trivia . |
| 12 | Towards the end of the 12 months , we will need to review your needs with you and , if appropriate , renew the overdraft arrangements at the same level or at a higher or lower figure . |
| 13 | The essential principle of this Lift ( which is to be used in lieu of a flight of locks ) is floating of the barge or vessel into a tank and the conveying of that tank with its floating load broadside up or down a slope or inclined plane to a higher or lower pond of the canal respectively into which it is floated from the tank , which is left ready for another barge going in the opposite direction . |