Example sentences of "high [subord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is it that the overall proportion of Management to staff is too high so the balance is being put right ? |
| 2 | Iran entered reservations , on the grounds that this level of overall output was too high if the reference price target was to be achieved . |
| 3 | Secondly , the transaction fees will need to be quite high if the investment made by Reuters and the CBoT/CME of between 40 and 50 million dollars is to yield a positive return . |
| 4 | The proportion of premature births was almost three times as high if the interval was less than a year . |
| 5 | The first is that initial support of 60% is not high if the policy turns sour — if , for example , a war lasted more than the few days or weeks that Mr Bush seems to think it will take . |
| 6 | A psychopathic killer is at work , and passions run high until the murderer is finally unmasked in a dramatic pay-off . |
| 7 | Hence even a specific target , say " price to cover average costs ' , can be met in many ways , because average costs may be high because the firm is relatively inefficient , or low because it is relatively efficient . |
| 8 | Many GIS users assume , perhaps subconsciously , that data quality and reliability must be high because the technology used to manipulate them is sophisticated . |
| 9 | The formula for calculating the tension of an open-wound string is likely to give a figure over 10 per cent too high because the theory behind it does not consider the deviation of the winding wire from a circular cross-section as it is bent around the core . |
| 10 | However , although the output impedances of both configurations are very low , the input impedance of the noninverting configuration is very high while the input impedance of the inverting configuration is virtually Z 1 since the signal at S is negligible compared with . |
| 11 | Also , if the unit fails in the on position , the low wattage means that the temperature will not climb too high before the problem is seem ( with your free digital thermometer , of course ) . |
| 12 | There were a number of special difficulties in the successful accomplishment of what was very delicate work and , all in all , the collector of aquatint books is getting full value for money , high though the price may be . |
| 13 | Beyond , surrounding a thicket of rushes , stood an enclosure of posts and rails half as high as a man . |
| 14 | Jutting out of it were a series of tall posts , high as a man , and attacking them were a score of figures whilst thirty others looked on , wooden swords in their hands , and three Myrcans directed the whole group . |
| 15 | The reeds here were as high as a man , water gurgling in the creeks , running towards the sea . |
| 16 | Estimates ranged as high as a couple of hundred units having been sold in Japan . |
| 17 | ‘ While at present returns are not as high as a year ago , they are still relatively attractive . ’ |
| 18 | I never seen a Christmas tree so big — it 's as high as a house . |
| 19 | ‘ A horse and a cart that stands as high as a house and cost the best part of thirty pounds and you lost them both ? ’ |
| 20 | There was a terrible wind blowing as well , sheeting across the plateau , piling the snow into drifts as high as a house . |
| 21 | Drifts as high as a house Jamie said . ’ |
| 22 | So a handclasp burned along her nerves and home again with just herself and music , she burned through sonnets sober as never before and high as a condor . |
| 23 | Rives had everything , including immense strength , whereas Jones is hugely athletic and can jump as high as a guy six inches taller than himself . |
| 24 | Jekub 's back wheels were nearly as high as a human . |
| 25 | I 'm as high as a kite and there 's no champagne in the orange juice . ’ |
| 26 | That he was high as a kite on Ecstasy and had thought they were larking about ! |
| 27 | And er , I first started feeling I was overweight when I fourteen and I was , I was twelve stone and I went to the doctor and got black capsules to take which had me as high as a kite for a long time ! |
| 28 | The three basic methods are gas and air , which many had used , some so enthusiastically that they ended up either very sleepy , or as one said , " as high as a kite " . |
| 29 | If Rainbow seems high as a kite , half-delirious , with racing pulse and her heartbeat dancing the hora , it is only because the delicious hand of Riva now lies firmly clasped within her own . |
| 30 | Last reported early yesterday morning , high as a kite , heading for a train . |