Example sentences of "[to-vb] [art] higher " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was imperative that the state should intervene to preserve the higher life of the nation : |
| 2 | The other , the other thing that we worked , w we 've been working with , and are still working with , erm to take up campaign for tenants in who 're on Supplementary Benefit or Housing Benefit supplement , erm to claim the higher rate heating addition for their flat . |
| 3 | An announcement that a firm is increasing its dividends is a good signal because it suggests that the managers believe that future earnings will be sufficient to sustain the higher level of dividends . |
| 4 | The GAO is concerned about the increased use of antibiotics to treat the higher incidence of mastitis in cows which have been fed with BST . |
| 5 | Answer guide : If the net realizable value is less than cost then to use cost would overstate the future benefits ; on the other hand if it is higher , to include the higher figure would mean that unrealized profits were being taken which would be contrary to the prudence principle . |
| 6 | This time the District Council was less amenable : the March meeting rejected the new fees , while promising to meet the higher remittances required by the District . |
| 7 | By early the following year some Boards were , as Jones had foreseen , going into deficit , and this inevitably compromised the industry 's ability to meet the higher self-financing targets they had previously agreed with the Ministry . |
| 8 | In the latter case , rural consumers were also typically charged higher prices , since the pressure from the local voters and ratepayers in the town was usually effective in curbing any idea of subsidy to the rural areas to meet the higher costs of supply . |
| 9 | Model clauses for contracts and leases will be drafted to meet the higher environmental standards now expected of businesses . |
| 10 | The Clow Committee had recognised there would be practical problems : the quarterly cycle of meter reading would make it difficult to concentrate the higher charge on the crucial months of December , January and February when demand was highest ; in really cold weather or if coal remained in short supply it would have only limited deterrent effect ; and off-peak demand might be adversely affected . |
| 11 | The whole country would like to know at what level of income they intend to increase the higher rate of tax . |
| 12 | Similarly , if your spouse pays income tax at the higher rate and you pay tax at only the ( lower ) basic rate , then your spouse should make the Gift Aid payment in order to obtain the higher rate relief . |
| 13 | If the barriers to capital mobility are removed , capital will flow from the UK to obtain the higher rate of return available in Germany . |
| 14 | For the current project a corpus is used to train the higher level modules ( i.e. lexical , syntactic and semantic ) with information about the behaviour of text . |
| 15 | It is within the power of the Council to make a one-off grant to the World for golden hellos to attract a higher calibre of research workers . |
| 16 | Loans for risky projects like the Channel Tunnel and North Sea oil exploration , for example , are likely to attract a higher interest rate than the rate on a loan to finance the construction of , say , a foodstore . |
| 17 | Thus polar groups tend to encourage a higher T g than non-polar groups of similar size , as seen when comparing polypropylene , poly ( vinyl chloride ) and polyacrylonitrile . |
| 18 | We were in a typical winter low pressure region which meant that we reached maximum manifold height fairly quickly , and by the time we reached 7,000 feet air traffic control had obviously got the message and asked us whether we were able to accept a higher level . |
| 19 | For a variety of reasons the European nobility of the eleventh and twelfth centuries were coming increasingly to need money : to indulge their taste in war , to meet a higher standard of living , to pay for their ever more costly gifts to their friends , their superiors and inferiors , and above all to the Church , to indulge their taste for extravagant building , and to give dowries to their daughters and patrimonies to their younger sons . |
| 20 | Patients with established colorectal cancer had a lower faecal concentration of the primary bile acid chenodeoxycholate and were found to excrete a higher proportion of secondary bile acids , compared with both controls and polyps . |
| 21 | The clearing banks , which are deeply sceptical about the commercial value to them of the loans scheme , have used the changed political climate to demand a higher price for their participation . |
| 22 | appeared to demand a higher standard of evidence . |
| 23 | Within a humanist perception of language , therefore , was the ability to extend and supplement existing reality and to indicate a higher reality in a perfection phenomenally lost . |
| 24 | The position that was presented by myself and my colleagues at the last er er er at the last last er last meeting was to indicate a higher level of fire cover within the Service that Councillor wanted and the Committees supported the view that we should have a higher level subject to further discussions of the fire of the fire . |
| 25 | When individuals are mobile between local authorities , a local economy seeking to impose a higher tax on its upper-income residents would simply create an incentive for such residents to move to another locale . |
| 26 | The NHS is very conscious of the potential for an increased incidence of hypothermia in the winter months and health board plans take account of the need to provide a higher level of services in winter . |
| 27 | This service is used to provide a higher quality of service to all our patients . |
| 28 | If you want to obtain a higher level of compensation cover than the basic £20 then we have a range of services available . |
| 29 | By doing this , ‘ they have helped to set one area and one group of workers against another in the struggle to obtain a higher share of the inadequate number of jobs available . ’ |
| 30 | Such initiatives petered out in the decades after the war ; indeed , it has only been since the mid 1980s that new attempts have been made , in Nell 's words , ‘ to regain the higher ground ’ , re-establishing the Underground as an influential patron of public art as well as improving the passenger environment . |