Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] high a " in BNC.

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1 Only Belgium has as high a proportion of over-60s as Britain ( 20.7 per cent ) , compared with the EC average of 19.9 per cent .
2 Mr Justice Simon Brown , the High Court judge , had expected too high a standard of care and expertise in the firm 's performance of its duties towards the Luxmoore-Mays .
3 The valuation is important : if you put too high a price on the property the market will reject it and you will not sell .
4 But on the other there were the usual fears that the United States might overreact or give too high a priority to the Far East at the expense of Europe .
5 To set too high a standard tends to discourage a student unduly ; too lenient a standard , particularly if accompanied by few comments , may give a student a false idea of his/her examination prospects .
6 It 's a pity the recommended individual commanded too high a price .
7 A proposed visit to Cuba by Khrushchev was cancelled , probably as a result of a combination of the following factors : ( 1 ) pressure from Khrushchev 's political opponents at home ; ( 2 ) fears ( both Soviet and Cuban ) of inciting Washington ; and ( 3 ) Castro 's own worries about according too high a profile to the relationship with Moscow .
8 Single people living in a house on their own paid as high a rate bill as a family of four , all of whom were earning and using local services .
9 If a buyer has access to a seller 's cost structure then he is in a powerful position to negotiate a cheaper price , or at least avoid paying too high a price .
10 To give it more would be out of proportion to the need shown and would entail too high a risk of unjustifiable interference with the freedom of expression of the press and public .
11 b ) Maintain as high a standard of instrument flying as you can , and be thoroughly familiar with each type of aircraft and associated flight procedures you fly so that mental conflict is less likely to occur .
12 Economically it is sensible to use as high a concentration as possible and dilute on site to the required level but there is some validity in specifying low activity concentration where users consistently ignore dilution instructions .
13 ‘ Mind you Mary , they do n't command as high a price as the smaller ones .
14 We would be wise not to build too high a building on such a flimsy foundation .
15 It was not , he answered , through want of trying : clubs were either unwilling to sell so early in the season , or were asking too high a fee .
16 A more rigorous church system , which in any case allowed them a chance to work out their own salvation , may not have seemed too high a price .
17 Use as high a magnification as possible , though it is true that the real complexity of the nebula can not be properly seen without a telescope .
18 Would one pay too high a price for approval ?
19 Sainteny realised that a military reconquest demanded too high a price .
20 An excellent idea , but it does mean too high a reversing speed , even in low ratio , for my liking with a trailer .
21 But , tell me , Captain Owen , what do you expect would be the nature of this information for which you are prepared to pay so high a price ? ’
22 Hence , on average , risky projects in the nationalized industries do not require as high a rate of return as such projects in private industry .
23 Production of the maximum possible yield might , for example , require too high a consumption of an expensive starting material or the process might take too long and thus prove uneconomic .
24 ‘ I 'm given too high a profile , ’ he says modestly .
25 Ros Young , Women for Socialism 's coordinator for International Liaison , has said , ’ The idea was to integrate an anti-racist perspective into all the discussions such as on education , health , housing , child sexual abuse , lesbianism ; but this presupposed too high a level of understanding for such a new organisation and made assumptions about white women 's awareness of issues such as the policing of the Black community .
26 After her husband 's death Valerie Eliot declared , " He felt he had paid too high a price to be a poet , that he had suffered too much " .
27 The assumption here is that ‘ when [ a driver ] happens to feel subjective risk or fear he often tends immediately to eliminate this feeling by certain behavioural changes ’ ( Summala , 1976 , p.239 ) , a major cause of accidents is thus that drivers have too high a ‘ subjective risk threshold ’ .
28 Filtration should be in the form of an external power filter , with the outlet pipes sheltered to prevent too high a water flow .
29 There is still a lingering feeling around that if you need this sort of help there has to be something ‘ wrong ’ with you , and this admission may further attack self-esteem and seem therefore to exact too high a price .
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