Example sentences of "[be] [adv] high as " in BNC.
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| 1 | The result of the above is that in one case costs are so high as to detract from its use , whereas the other positively attracts business . |
| 2 | The result has been that in some cases the insurance premiums which manufacturers have to pay to protect themselves are so high as to make it no longer profitable for them to remain in business . |
| 3 | Well you 're either sort of scraping off the ceiling cos you 're as high as a kite |
| 4 | The French allotment was many times oversubscribed by last Monday and the price on the Parisian grey market , where shares are unoffically traded before issue , has been as high as Fr95 , compared to an issue price of Fr72 . |
| 5 | Let us suppose that a Government , a party , observing that the rate of increase of the national income has been as high as 3 per cent in real terms over the last few years , were to decide to make plans which involve the growth of public expenditure at the rate of 2and1/2 ; per cent , so as to be a little within the recent happy experience . |
| 6 | George Antonius suggested that the true statistic of starvation deaths in all Syria — including present-day Lebanon — may have been as high as 350,000 . |
| 7 | All four of the Titford brothers of this generation were in their early twenties on their wedding day — a reflection in itself of the fact that the average age at marriage for men was falling as the century wore on ; that average in the early 1700s had been as high as twenty-seven . |
| 8 | One gain might come from the elimination of the discount in Gencor 's share price as compared with the total value of its subsidiaries — a discount that has recently been as high as 4 billion rand . |
| 9 | Perhaps the standards of civic loyalty and respect for law and order have never been as high as conservative romantics affected to believe . |
| 10 | It has previously been as high as 60p , and should rocket . " |
| 11 | In the more remote regions population losses have been as high as 10 per cent in many of the intercensal periods during the twentieth century ( Dunn 1976 ) . |
| 12 | Over the same period of time the number of defendants committed for trial at the Crown Court who were remanded in custody also increased from around 13,000 to 21,000 ( having been as high as 24,000 in 1997 ) . |
| 13 | Indeed , last year it is likely to have been as high as 60 per cent . |
| 14 | Next , raise the heels until they are as high as possible without moving the balls of the feet . |
| 15 | First , that interest rates are as high as they can go politically , certainly while the party conference is in session . |
| 16 | Estimates of the number of small cetaceans taken deliberately and accidentally around the coastline of France are as high as 3000 animals each year . |
| 17 | You are as high as a 10-storey building . |
| 18 | The graphics are excellent and the documentation and playability are as high as any of the Apogee arcade type games . |
| 19 | The problems of valuation and banding will also be compounded by the Government 's proposed method of valuation , which is to give the job to people such as estate agents who have a vested interest in ensuring that the valuations are as high as possible . |
| 20 | If world insect species totals are as high as 50 million , this would extend to 28,345 species per insect specialist . |
| 21 | In July it will reach an average of 20–25°C whereas in the NW , January temps are as high as 35°C and in July 20–25°C . |
| 22 | No , but the point is that to in all our cases to provide a community resource which is going to be of genuine use to artists and the general public , erm one has to take care that the standards of work and the standards of community facilities are as high as they possibly can be if you want to attract maximum usage , and what we will be trying to do in circumstances like this encourage as many people to come up to the Gardener at weekends during the summer and have as enjoyable a time as possible . |
| 23 | But in a country such as Yugoslavia , which has a ‘ structural ’ disequilibrium in its balance of payments because of past mistakes and accumulated debts , the price of foreign exchange which would bring current demand and supply into equilibrium might be so high as to be very painful to some well-entrenched interests . |
| 24 | Similarly , overachieving can be an addiction if the achievement is to no purpose or gratification while at the same time the costs to other relationships may be so high as to be catastrophic . |
| 25 | I 'm as high as a kite and there 's no champagne in the orange juice . ’ |
| 26 | But the pickings could be huge : the audience for RAI 's recorded Italian Sunday football in the United States and Canada may be as high as 50 million , while down in Latin America they hunger for footage of Maradona at almost any price . |
| 27 | HDL cholesterol should be as high as possible . |
| 28 | All fungi require about 20 per cent moisture content in the host wood to germinate and although in new buildings the moisture content of the timber may be as high as 18 per cent , this is soon reduced to about 12–14 per cent by heating and ventilation of the enclosed spaces . |
| 29 | Premiums could be as high as 30p when dealings start on Tuesday . |
| 30 | Water , water everywhere with the shares set to soar Premiums could be as high as 30p when dealings start on Tuesday . |