Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] is [adv] high " in BNC.

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1 The run-off from the pig factories is so high in nutrients and so voluminous that in warm summers the entire Adriatic stinks of rotting algae and dead fish .
2 Not many problems have been encountered , but if the whiteout point is too high it is possible , though unusual , for the maximum gradient of the radius vector to occur in the flood region and the value delivered for the LB-level can then be higher that the UB-level .
3 The level of college education is too high for that simple idea .
4 Interest rates have halved in the past 10 years to 5.75% , because Singapore 's savings rate is so high that the banks are flush with funds .
5 The overall completion rate is very high .
6 In Hampshire it is possible that boat traffic is too high at 1991 levels .
7 In fact , the turnover rate is so high , that only one character from the nine-months-old computer game is still in the series — and that 's Bouncer the dog !
8 As you knit , the needles on one of the beds has a stitch , then a tucking stitch , then on the next row , both stitch and tuck loop should be knitted — but if the stitch size is too high , they will not knit off cleanly — hence , large patches of mis-patterning .
9 The integrity of British horse racing is very high and we feel these are unrelated incidents . ’
10 Right so the functional form test , if we look at the kie squared version , right , again we 've got a very small er test statistic implying there 's no breach of functional form right , the , the log er specification , right , seems to be working okay , there 's no problems with it erm if we now look at normality we 've got a bit of a problem with normality , right in that our test statistic is now four point nine , if we look at the critical value at the five percent level of kie when kie squared two , ah it 's not too bad , our five percent critical value of the kie squared two is five point nine nine , so although that test statistic is reasonably high , I mean you 'd probably reject , oh yes , we can reject the null at ten percent of normally distributed errors we would n't reject the null at five percent erm let's just have a look at in actual fact at those errors to see what the problem is .
11 Watching badgers graze on bird cherries and elderberries in Gyhll Beck wood is certainly high on my list of happier wildlife experiences .
12 In the grouped update areas there will be little or no effect , as the hit rate is already high .
13 For the most risky two exemplars , films 53 and 54 , the corrected hit rate is very high , for the least risky exemplars of the same junction , films 50 and 51 , corrected hit rate is extremely low .
14 The divorce rate is very high because women are more independent than in the West .
15 For any biological text , explained Manfred Eigen ( MPI , Göttingen ) , there is a single error threshold ; above this , the error rate is too high , and information is lost on each round of replication , whereas below it , the error rate is too low , and not new variants can ever emerge .
16 Jupiter is a very massive planet , and its escape velocity is correspondingly high .
17 Indeed , his work rate is so high that his players are inspired to perform if only so that the old so-and-so does not get the better of them .
18 Indeed , his work rate is so high that his players are inspired to perform if only so that the old so-and-so does not get the better of them .
19 The quality of output from the DeskJet Portable is very high , and in my view is marginally the best of all the machines tested .
20 Quite apart from the spate of redundancies that began in 1990 , turnover in saleroom experts is fairly high at the lower levels .
21 However , historical reviews of business failure rates show that the incidence of new product failure is very high and costly .
22 Job security is relatively high and attention is paid to relocation and the easing of redundancy when job loss occurs .
23 Empowerment mainly seems to be taking hold in modern engineering and computer firms where dealing with state-of-the-art technology is a way of life and the job content is reasonably high .
24 It 's been slow to cut interest rates , believing Germany 's four percent inflation is too high .
25 This one , first seen in the Astra 16v , has a generous spread of torque , although its peak of 145lb ft is fairly high at 4800rpm .
26 But putting money into small new firms , where the failure rate is pretty high and great risks are being taken , that 's what enterprise is all about .
27 Despite the premium rate , Mr Lowman claims that mortgage demand is still high at the moment .
28 Band morale is very high after the recent UK dates .
29 Infant mortality is phenomenally high , and many children die before they reach six years of age .
30 As the summary data for IPPF regions in Table 6 show , the relationship in the Indian Ocean region , where the overall level of infant mortality is very high , can be described by a reverse " J " shaped curve with the minimum at the 4th-6th birth orders .
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