Example sentences of "[coord] [v-ing] a high [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But though everyone acts for himself , his knowledge of what others are doing is supposed to be generally sufficient to prevent him from taking a lower or paying a higher price than others are doing . |
| 2 | It is similar to other schemes in allowing customers to reduce their monthly repayments in comparison to outright purchase or choosing a higher specification car than they could normally afford . |
| 3 | An influential report by Professor Jurg Niehans in February 1981 argued that monetary policy was in fact excessively tight because the high interest rates were attracting foreign money to London and maintaining a high pound . |
| 4 | This meant that management were able to push decision making well down the hierarchy , giving those actually operating the CNC machines much autonomy , and expecting a high level of integration of the various functions such as quality control , work planning , programming of the machine , and machine setting to take place via those operatives actually on the shop floor . |
| 5 | In their intermediation role between savers and borrowers , banks , building societies and other financial institutions earn profits by paying savers a lower rate of interest on deposits and charging a higher rate on loans to customers . |
| 6 | Er there 's another book which is similar to the other one in the sense that it made up of some papers by Phillips , Steel and Tants and that has some information about Mexicano in it , er and you find that some people er were giving Mexican language a low a low prestige rate whereas other group in the community were doing the opposite and giving a high prestige rate or certainly a less low one , er in favour of spanish a lot of the Because it was in I think it 's in South America I guess , er you find that a lot of the locals were switching to spanish because it was coming the dominant language er because of societal pressures and constraints and so on . |
| 7 | Family contacts were very important in uniting the upper classes and achieving a high degree of social closure ( the exclusion of outsiders ) . |
| 8 | R&D consortia which include films that produce different products using the same basic technological knowledge may also be able to segment user markets , price discriminating more effectively as a group than they are able to do when they act independently and earning a higher return on their R&D activities . |
| 9 | Within education there has been the long standing view that the individual teacher is the key resource to developing and delivering a high quality service . |
| 10 | The ANC and its allies modified earlier demands for a two-thirds majority , proposing a 70 per cent majority for most decisions but conceding a higher majority , of 75 per cent , for a bill of rights . |
| 11 | Not apprehensive he was going astray , the took towards the river ; but having a high bank to mount , and being nearly exhausted with wandering and the effect of the liquor , he was most fortunately prevented from rising the mound , or he certainly must have precipitated himself ( as it was near high water ) into the Medway . |