Example sentences of "be considerably high [subord] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pearson , the media group whose interests span The Financial Times to Madame Tussauds , was heavily in demand as half-year profits were considerably higher than the City had been expecting . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Drawing a parallel with domestic appliances , such as refrigerators and freezers , which may be used in laboratories , it has been suggested that the average electricity consumption of newly purchased appliances in the UK is considerably higher than the best available in Europe . |
| 4 | Category 2 includes the long-eared owl , Verreaux eagle owl , and the great grey owl , with total digestion percentages of 20–30 per cent , and this is considerably higher than the category 1 species . |
| 5 | The compensation package offered is usually based on a local salary , which , when converted into sterling , is considerably higher than the workers could earn in the UK . |
| 6 | Also , the findings for the causal task indicate that even five-year-olds have some knowledge of the directional component of the causal connectives ' meaning , in that their mean score is considerably higher than the score ( of 8 ) which one would expect if they were simply responding at chance level . |
| 7 | According to the Labour Force Survey , the proportion of agency workers working on a temporary basis because they do not want permanent jobs is considerably higher than the average for all temporary workers and that the proportion of agency secretarial/office workers doing so is still higher ( see Table 5.1 ) . |
| 8 | Although the numbers are small , this is considerably higher than the 1–3% level of isoniazid resistance and the 0.8% level of resistance to more than one drug that the Medical Research Council found in its survey of England and Wales in 1988 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Top-level salaries in the group have traditionally been considerably higher than the British norm because of the American influence in the group . |
| 11 | It gave the 33,000 manual workforce 8.9 per cent , which at the time was considerably higher than the ‘ going rate ’ . |
| 12 | As it turned out , actual PSBR was considerably higher than the target figures . |