Example sentences of "[v-ing] a high [noun sg] of " 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | So , for instance , a birth would in all instances have been rated by Holmes and Rahe as entailing a high degree of change . |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | This is consistent with two recent studies describing a high prevalence of impairment of vagal cardiovascular reflexes in patients with gastro-oesophageal reflux disease . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | They must allow for change while still maintaining a high degree of organizational integrity . |
| 20 | The " culture " offered by a liberal education could thus control nature by generating a higher form of " life " — by teaching " the art to live " . |
| 21 | Of the ten most active fellows ( including Robert Boyle , Jonathan Goddard , Henry Oldenburg , William Petty , John Wilkins , Lord Brouncker , Walter Charleton , John Evelyn , Sir Robert Moray , and Christopher Wren ) , the first five had collaborated with the parliamentarian regime , suggesting a higher proportion of puritan involvement than that indicated by the larger sample . |
| 22 | But the Commissioner , enjoying a high state of moral indignation , looked for no explanation . |
| 23 | When imported cloth became more difficult to obtain from the mid 1980s tailors and seamstresses reverted to using a higher proportion of home-spun cloth woven on handlooms . |
| 24 | If it set too high , then performance will be poor since it will be completing its workload using a higher number of smaller portions than necessary . |
| 25 | Enterprising market economies are always — always , not sometimes — more effective in producing a higher standard of living and a better quality of life than those in which Governments try to run too much themselves . |
| 26 | He was asked by the Production Manager , J D Pearson , to redesign any part of the engine where the unskilled and semi-skilled staff were producing a high proportion of scrap . |
| 27 | To this end MAS professionals should be aware that negotiating is an activity demanding a high level of skill and application . |
| 28 | Since 1974 not only have the absolute numbers being sent to prison increased but the courts have become more punitive in the sense that they are sending a higher proportion of those convicted to prison . |
| 29 | The Left Book Club was a unique development in Britain , providing a high standard of political literature at a price which ensured its circulation to a wide audience . |
| 30 | We are a totally independent company dedicated to providing a high level of professional services to users of all Lotus software . |