Example sentences of "[be] [adv] higher than " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the event the persons who wanted to talk to Henry Tyler went to the Foreign Office to see him — where they found his rank to be rather higher than that of errand-boy . |
| 2 | The difference between Peak and RMS switching is that , with Peak , the compressor monitors the true signal peaks which may be much higher than the average level ; for drums , therefore , Peak makes most sense . |
| 3 | Charterail 's managing director , Robin Gisby , says BR 's haulage charges — 30% of the company 's costs — turned out to be much higher than expected . |
| 4 | After all , demand for July and August periods is likely to be much higher than that for November or February ones . |
| 5 | The prevalence reported among first degree relatives seems to be much higher than expected from the prevalence in the background populations . |
| 6 | Crack use , however , may be much higher than the figures for seizures indicate if ‘ crack ’ is taken to include ‘ freebase . ’ |
| 7 | The cost of the service turned out to be much higher than had been predicted . |
| 8 | That resentment will grow further when people realise that the Welsh Office has got its sums wrong and that the bills that they pay will be much higher than Welsh Office estimates . |
| 9 | I hope that the Secretary of State will address this question : does he accept that council tax bills are likely to be much higher than the Welsh Office predicted ? |
| 10 | Because the coupon on index-linked gilts is much lower than on conventional gilts , this means that the duration of index-linked gilts will be much higher than for conventional gilts with the same maturity . |
| 11 | The cost of getting the display team to Edinburgh for the International Festival of Movement on April 2–3 is proving to be much higher than anticipated . |
| 12 | Accordingly , the rate of turnover of a portfolio investing significantly in futures may quite legitimately be much higher than one would expect of a portfolio investing solely in stocks and shares . |
| 13 | ‘ The costs of absence are now shown to be much higher than had previously been thought , ’ said Robbie Gilbert , the CBI 's director of employment affairs . |
| 14 | The collection rate would be much higher than that for the poll tax and there were signs that the system was going to be much more acceptable to the public . |
| 15 | In ( i ) above , the costs of delivery to the seller might be much higher than the costs of collection to the buyer . |
| 16 | He said : ‘ In these exceptional circumstances the moisture content was bound to be much higher than usual , leading to additional costs in drying down to reach the normal intervention standards of 14.45pc . ’ |
| 17 | In European countries the mains supply voltage may fluctuate considerably , often being above any rated working voltage of the CL power pack , so that actual beam voltages may be appreciably higher than those set on the instrument panel . |
| 18 | ( These scores may be somewhat higher than normal as , before joining the study , some patients had already been encouraged to take a high fibre intake . ) |
| 19 | Despite the fact that it can seem at times as if half the figures on the red benches are comatose — a chastened Lady ( Barbara ) Wootton concluded after eight years in the place that at any one time about ten per cent of the participants in a debate were fast asleep — the quality of argument can be incomparably higher than in the House of Commons , and the pool of expertise available from the ennobled professors , judges , generals and bureaucrats makes for more informed contributions . |
| 20 | erm it 's difficult to say , but erm again that 's something they 're looking at over the next couple of weeks , but perhaps along last year 's lines — they should n't really be any higher than last year . |
| 21 | In the evening , body temperature is being reduced and so tends to be slightly higher than required . |
| 22 | The ground level appeared to be slightly higher than he remembered and there was no sign of the seven semi-circular steps leading up to the front door . |
| 23 | Rectal CSA values in women showed a tendency to be slightly higher than in men . |
| 24 | Although government figures show adult illiteracy rates continuing to fall to below 30 per cent , the real rates are thought to be far higher than this . |
| 25 | A single merchant banker in the next house might qualify for his discount on a salary that could be far higher than any other salary in the street . |
| 26 | What the complaints will be about are the size of the bills , for throughout most of the South they will be even higher than the hated poll tax . |
| 27 | But there is a third choice — illegal dumping , or burning rubbish in the back garden — whose social costs may be even higher than the social costs of landfills . |
| 28 | The rate at which its expectations have been rising strongly suggests that by the end of the year , the figure will be even higher than 40,000 , which is already 12% of the 344,000 with which it started the year . |
| 29 | I am sure that , following the Budget , support among business and industry will be even higher than the 86 per cent . |
| 30 | NOx be cut to 11.8g/Kw/hr , and particulates to 11.8 g/Kw/hr , That level will still be significantly higher than US levels , but much lower than vehicles currently being sold . |