Example sentences of "[be] higher [subord] [det] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dividing by the mean success of males in this sample will accentuate this error since the mean success of the males sampled will be higher than that of the male population as a whole . |
| 2 | The boys ' success rates were higher than those of the girls in 80 out of the 81 questions . |
| 3 | The fact that most practices ' referral rates had increased in the second phase of the study provides no support for the view that first wave fundholders had artificially increased their rates of referral in the preparatory year to enable them to make budgetary savings in the subsequent year , although their rates were higher than those of the controls in phase 1 . |
| 4 | In the 1950s and early 1960s infant mortality of the first born babies were higher than those of the second . |
| 5 | Country rates were higher than those of the towns ; in the former case the ratio was seven out of ten . |
| 6 | But the incidence of cancer among paranoid schizophrenics in the same or similar institutions eating the same or similar American diet is higher than that of the normal population ( Simonton et al . |
| 7 | Indeed , the proportion of African Asians who are professionals is higher than that of the white population . |
| 8 | Higher education is defined in the 1988 Education Reform Bill as courses leading to degrees , higher diplomas or to professional examinations where the standard is higher than that of the advanced ( 'A' ) level of the General Certificate of Education . |
| 9 | Unless the patient throughput per doctor or nurse at a reference centre is higher than that in the hospital , economies of scale suggest that average costs at this new tier will be greater . |
| 10 | Sometimes converging swells will synchronize to produce a peak that is higher than any of the separate peaks that preceded it . |
| 11 | Thus at any temperature , say T 1 , ; the Gibbs free energy of any mixture , composition in the composition range to , is higher than either of the two co-existing phases whose compositions are and and phase separation takes place . |
| 12 | The mean age of patients in the colorectal cancer and benign colorectal tumour groups was higher than that of the inflammatory bowel and normal rectal mucosa groups , as would be expected from the age distributions of surgery for these different pathologies . |
| 13 | The relative distribution of vesicular cholesterol in hepatic bile of the cholesterol gall stone patients was higher than that of the gall stone free patients , but not to a significant extent ( 42.3 ( 14.9 ) % v 21.9 ( 21.0 ) % ) . |
| 14 | At the gastrin releasing peptide infusion rate of 40 pmol/kg/h the median plasma gastrin concentration ( ng/l ) was increased to a similar value in the H pylori positive healthy volunteers ( 129 , range 23–420 ) and H pylori positive duodenal ulcer patients ( 150 , range 94–400 ) and each was higher than that of the H pylori negative healthy volunteers ( 60 , range 28–135 ) ( p<0.005 for each ) ( Fig 2A ) . |
| 15 | For external locus of control a lower increase in score was seen in the FSE and SAM groups than in the control group , but the increase in the FSE/SAM group was higher than that in the control group . |