Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] high " in BNC.
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| 1 | These things are about so high . |
| 2 | The paper claimed Johnson had been tested three times in six days in mid-January , and that at least one of the tests was positive for abnormally high testosterone levels . |
| 3 | Saatchi is known to have purchased five major Warhols in the last six months , for extremely high prices , which few would argue is the action of someone dispersing their collection . |
| 4 | India 's government is so concerned about naturally high fluoride levels in water that it believes children under seven should not use fluoridated toothpaste . |
| 5 | European Brown Hare Syndrome ( EBHS ) , which yellows the arteries and causes liver damage , was first identified in 1986 by wildlife pathologists in Germany , after abnormally high mortality rates in hare populations . |
| 6 | These responses are now of uniformly high quality , which is not to say that they always endorse the views of the Select Committee , but they show that the Government has thought seriously about what the Committee has argued . |
| 7 | It has the characteristic of extremely high strength for its weight , considerably higher than aluminium , but it does create special requirements in the building phase . |
| 8 | The application of systematic thinking to , for instance , the courses offered by the Open University has resulted in the production of syllabuses , learning methods and study materials which are not only of extremely high quality but are profoundly influencing the approach of teachers and administrators all over the world and at many levels of educational activity . |
| 9 | J. Rothschild Partnership envelops 400 individual sales professionals with many years of experience in the industry and a large number of extremely high achievers . |
| 10 | Currently , the chips are able to handle a maximum resolution of 1,024 horizontal by 512 vertical pixels allowing delivery of extremely high resolution still images . |
| 11 | This deserves special mention because , on the assumption that various conditions which appear to be satisfied by the return maps are actually satisfied , this attractor is probably the only well understood strange attractor known in a system of " natural " three-dimensional differential equations ; we have strong reasons to suppose that there can be no stable orbits in a relatively large parameter range , as opposed to the normal " chaotic attractors where one merely can not observe them but has no arguments to suggest they can not exist ( they may be of extremely high period or have very complicated basins of attraction see { 8 } ) . |
| 12 | While sexually mature males may remain in their natal troops they have little access to females , unless they are of especially high dominance . |
| 13 | And plutonium , providing it is of sufficiently high quality , can be used for arms manufacture . |
| 14 | It 's just that there are n't enough of sufficiently high calibre in the party 's lower ranks . |
| 15 | He was thus of sufficiently high rank to have an aircraft at his disposal . |
| 16 | After a couple of years they would be exchanged for someone else of sufficiently high position . |
| 17 | Applicants holding GCE A-level passes of sufficiently high standard in appropriate subjects may be offered exemption from all or part of the first year of most honours degree courses ; indeed such opportunities may also be available to applicants offering other qualifications . |
| 18 | In the limit of sufficiently high frequencies to satisfy the transfer function reduces to establishing that , in the pass band , the output signal of a section leads the input signal to that section in phase . |
| 19 | They being always of sufficiently high quality to be intellectually and culturally developing and stimulating and justify potential of accreditation . |
| 20 | We are also accountable through the box office in terms that your public will not come and see events and pay their money if the events that you 're putting on are not of sufficiently high standard , so the accountability runs in three our four different channels and each of them are quite potent and quite immediate in terms of their impact that they can have on the Association . |
| 21 | Particularly alarming were the estimated costs of pension commitments already undertaken , and the projected costs of stubbornly high continuing rates of unemployment ( OECD 1981 ) . |
| 22 | All show the same pattern of generally high proportions of cranial and postcranial elements and low proportions of isolated teeth . |
| 23 | The reasons for this decentralising movement towards the growth of workplace bargaining activity in Western European countries have been in part economic , as a result of generally high employment and continuous economic growth in the post-war years to the mid-1970s along with a varying capacity to pay of separate employers . |
| 24 | From this overwhelming fact — signalled , be it remembered , most dramatically by Marx — have sprung a great number of the achievements , problems and conflicts of the late twentieth century : economic growth and the attainment of generally high standards of living , sustained partly by extensive welfare services , in the industrial countries ; the rapid growth of world population , due in part to vastly improved medical services ; changes in the structure of capitalism towards a more ‘ organized ’ form , and in the class system ; revisions of the socialist alternative , to some extent as a result of the relative success of ‘ welfare capitalism ’ ; the North-South divide ; the impact of population growth and industrialization on the environment ; and the shifting balance of economic power in the world . |
| 25 | As implied above , another effect of generally high crude prices earlier on had been to encourage the economics of developing oil accumulations discovered outside the OPEC countries — not only in the industrialized world , in places like the North Sea , but also in some countries close to OPEC members , like Oman and Mexico . |
| 26 | In general the move towards wage supplementation in the rural South and East enabled the old Poor Law just about to cope with the problem of subsisting the poor in a period of unprecedentedly high bread prices , during which some years can only be described as desperate . |
| 27 | The fifty-year-old display area is now to be replaced with a new space of suitably high artistic merit . |
| 28 | It is a production of deservedly high quality . |
| 29 | Reports of unreasonably high fines imposed for minor offences further inflamed public feelings . |
| 30 | No signs of dangerously high radiation levels had been deteced in water samples from the Kara and Barents Seas , where Soviet dumping , totalling 2.5 million curies , took place , the conference participants said , adding that there was strong consensus among them that " there is no evidence of any regional-scale radioactive contamination in the Arctic and North Atlantic oceans that currently poses a threat to human health or causes environmental concern . " |