Example sentences of "[be] high [subord] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certainly frequency will be higher than for any but the heaviest TV campaign , but it will hardly be dramatic . |
| 2 | Latin America 's nutritional levels are higher than in many other parts of the Third world , and yet it is estimated that 15 per cent of the region 's children suffer from medium to high-level malnutrition , which means , given the differences within the region , high levels in some areas ( López Cordovez 1982 ) . |
| 3 | The number of inquiries are higher than in any other month since the branch opened in November 1991 . |
| 4 | And the reason that rents in Cambridge are higher than in those in surrounding areas , or the eight that the councillor is talking about is because the rent levels which er the government require us to raise to are historically based on right to buy values and as he knows as well as I do , house prices in Cambridge have been relatively consistently higher than they have in surrounding areas . |
| 5 | Fish from these waters contain levels of radiation higher than in any other waters , and levels of radiation in the atmosphere around Sellafield are higher than around any other nuclear site . |
| 6 | Haslemere were the play-makers in the second half and the score could have been higher but for some excellent goalkeeping by Simon Fish . |
| 7 | And Conquest said that ‘ Grain exports during the early thirties were higher than at any time since the revolution , running around 5 million tons a year in 1930–31 and 1¾ million tons during the famine period of 1932–33 . |
| 8 | Moreover , the available data on personal savings show that there has been a rise rather than a fall during the 1970s when taxation rates were higher than at any time before . |
| 9 | It shows that the relative risks of mortality for children in social classes IV and V were higher than for those in classes I and II for all age groups , although the difference was not statistically significant at ages 10–15 . |
| 10 | It has always been puzzling enough that the proportion of men in gynaecology is higher than in any virtually any other specialty , as if detachment were an advantage in this field . |
| 11 | Asset specificity refers to the extent to which the resources used in a transaction have a value therein that is higher than in any other use or to any other user . |
| 12 | Moreover , so successful were the numerous methods for delaying marriage ( the mean age of which , by the early twentieth century was higher than at any other time in British history , 27 for men and 25 for women ) , that for the typical Edwardian the gap between leaving school and the full independence of marriage was twice as long as it is today . |
| 13 | In all but seven of 38 WFS countries located in three major developing regions and having the requisite statistics , the mortality of infants whose mothers had migrated from a rural to an urban place was higher than of those whose mothers continued to reside in rural areas of that country , while statistics for 26 out of 36 WFS developing countries suggest that movement of a woman from an urban to a rural place increases the health hazards and reduces the survival chances of infants . |
| 14 | Surprisingly , few art teachers were concerned that there was still an examination at the end of the course , or that the weighting of it in relation to the coursework was higher than in many previous CSEs . |
| 15 | The rate of increase in unemployment in Britain last year was higher than in any other country in the western world , bar Finland . |
| 16 | The mortality in patients randomised to receive conventional treatment alone , 9/30 ( 30% ) , was higher than in some previous reports . |
| 17 | The rate of relapse in elemental diet treated patients was higher than in those who had gained remission with prednisolone . |