Example sentences of "[v-ing] a high [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Commission vice-president Martin Bangemann explained that the measure had been framed under Single Market ‘ fast-track ’ procedures in which final approval is subject to qualified majority in the Council of Ministers on matters necessitating a high level of public protection . |
| 2 | Levels of investment are important to economic growth , and it is often considered a ‘ good thing ’ to stimulate growth by inducing a higher level of investment . |
| 3 | Aiming for a portal pressure gradient of 12–15 mm Hg might allow control of haemorrhage without inducing a high incidence of encephalopathy . |
| 4 | As effective leader of the Scottish Labour Party , he has to weld that frequently fissiparous organisation together , to set his stamp on its policies for Scotland , and to campaign against the Government , adopting a high profile for himself and the opposition . |
| 5 | Pork pigs cleared without difficulty to a top of £83.50 paid to a Banbridge producer for his suitable 105k porkers returning a high rate of 79p per kilo . |
| 6 | Commercial sponsorship is constantly gaining a higher profile in marketing policies . |
| 7 | Her circulating paracetamol concentration was 943 µmol/l on admission , implying a high risk of fulminant hepatitis even if she was treated with the antioxidant acetylcysteine . |
| 8 | This has the advantage of establishing a high degree of control over the target utterance and , if the child is co-operating , it is possible to make a direct comparison between the utterance the child was attempting to produce and what the child actually said . |
| 9 | Some general practitioners are developing a high degree of expertise in purchasing : their skills would be better used in providing properly supported and remunerated guidance to purchasers at district level . |
| 10 | As Tables 5 and 6 , above , demonstrate , each period surveyed shows a broadly similar pattern of usage , with modern material forming a high proportion of all items of known date issued , and with material published in the decade prior to each survey accounting for a particularly high proportion of all dated issues supplied . |
| 11 | He could see the grassy wilderness forming a high bank beyond the old bulging stone wall that held back the encroaching hillside . |
| 12 | The main road curves in a wide sweep around the base of Frostrow , a green hill forming a high barrier to the promised land , and enters Dentdale through an avenue of trees . |
| 13 | Ultimately there would be a depreciation of the exchange rate under a free-floating regime , but the policy response of the government has been to prevent this occurring by sustaining a high level of domestic interest rates . |
| 14 | This is achieved by assigning a higher weight to the actual terms in the search than to any see also terms , regardless of the direction of the relation . |
| 15 | Similarly with regard to attitudes to management , the British workers fitted the Blauner model , expressing a high level of contentment with existing procedures of decision making and a consensus about organisational goals , whereas the French saw their enterprises as socially dichotomous and exploitative . |
| 16 | Having said that , we 're not seeking an higher allocation under I five either er because in general terms , we we do n't feel it 's necessary to make further provision in and around main settlements . |
| 17 | Extraordinary items are material items possessing a high degree of abnormality which arise from events or transactions that fall outside the ordinary activities of the reporting entity and which are not expected to recur . |
| 18 | So , for instance , a birth would in all instances have been rated by Holmes and Rahe as entailing a high degree of change . |
| 19 | CytR has extensive homology with well-characterized DNA binding proteins like LacI and GalR that contact palindromic sites via two identical subunits ( 28–31 ) , and specifically CytR contains a region exhibiting a high level of homology with the α-helix-turn-α-helix motif found in the DNA binding domain of several well-characterized DNA binding proteins ( 32 ) . |
| 20 | A particularly important factor was that the processor did not offer the customer a choice of paying a higher fee in return for the processor accepting greater liability : such a choice was recommended in an industry code of practice approved by the Office of Fair Trading . |
| 21 | It was not therefore unexpected that the Thatcher government introduced legislation which reduced the amount of supplementary benefit payable to strikers and which made their trade union responsible for paying a higher amount of strike pay . |
| 22 | In strict cash terms she is paying a higher rate on her mortgage than her savings are earning . |
| 23 | If it seems husband or children are paying a high price for the caring in other ways this is difficult . |
| 24 | More than a hundred schoolchildren are paying a high price for the peace dividend … their school has been forced to close . |
| 25 | The growing economic and physical hardships of the later stages of the Pacific War , and the inability of the authorities reformed with a view to providing equality of opportunity , in the hope that this would back up a new , genuinely democratic social structure permitting a high level of individual social mobility . |
| 26 | This is consistent with two recent studies describing a high prevalence of impairment of vagal cardiovascular reflexes in patients with gastro-oesophageal reflux disease . |
| 27 | However in maintaining a high level of performance , it uses vast amounts of oxygen from the system which is detrimental to the stock , unless it is rapidly replaced . |
| 28 | The upper class in Western societies have normally succeeded in maintaining a high degree of social closure , and show very distinct values and patterns of behaviour . |
| 29 | They must allow for change while still maintaining a high degree of organizational integrity . |
| 30 | An outer β -strand in the protein G domain forms an antiparallel interaction with the last β -strand in the constant heavy chain domain of the immunoglobulin , thus extending the β -sheet into the protein G. The interaction between secondary structural elements in Fab and protein G provides an ingenious solution to the problem of maintaining a high affinity for many different IgG molecules . |