Example sentences of "[vb pp] to [art] higher " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the mare basins were excavated the fragmentary material beneath them must have been compressed to a higher density than before . |
| 2 | Solon divided the citizen body into four classes on the basis of wealth or property ownership , and while most important political offices were confined to the higher of these classes , the lowest class were entitled to attend the Assembly or Ecclesia , and to make up the juries who decided both on guilt and innocence and on sentences in the courts . |
| 3 | There 'll be very little change in the afternoon , with again any light rain or drizzle confined to the higher ground . |
| 4 | To summarise , again , survey evidence from Appendix 1 , people who had been educated to a higher level , who were more highly paid , or were in a higher social group , seemed more readily able than average to use APR or credit cost information in choosing among loan options . |
| 5 | In France , where a new class of naval engineers concerned with the building and repair of ships was created in 1765 , shipbuilding was perhaps carried to a higher pitch of perfection than anywhere else in Europe . |
| 6 | Allowing for those to be transferred to the higher and further education funding councils , that is equivalent to a cut of almost 50 per cent . |
| 7 | One underlying reason for the expected shift in firm size is related to the higher transaction costs that are involved in using outside suppliers relative to greater in-house production . |
| 8 | Unfortunately , the group did not define fetal distress , and the increased incidence may have been related to the higher rate of meconium staining of the amniotic fluid in spontaneous labours , which is to be expected at a later gestation . |
| 9 | Through SHACE , meetings of subject specialists , related to the Higher National Diploma , now take place and this organisation , under the chairmanship of a member of Sector O Board , was able to assist SCOTVEC when in 1986 a revision of the Higher National Diploma was required to retain exemption status from the Hotel , Catering and Institutional Management ( HCIMA ) Professional examination . |
| 10 | He had been moved to a higher class , seemed well adjusted and chatted a lot when she worked with him . |
| 11 | To a large extent the crops grown vary with altitude — they can be grown to a higher altitude on the warmer , less exposed south side . |
| 12 | However , much more information can be obtained from sections made to a higher specification , with ( 1 ) both rock surfaces ground optically flat and polished , and ( 2 ) special care taken to produce an extremely thin and uniform bonding film between glass and slice . |
| 13 | Population attributable risks , not adjusted for other factors , estimate the proportion of deaths explained by exposure to the risk factor , and the relative attributable risks estimate the percentage of the excess risk in Maori , compared with non-Maori , which could be attributed to a higher exposure to the risk factor in Maori children . |
| 14 | Worries now shifted to the higher prices and to what became known as the ‘ recycling problem ’ . |
| 15 | But in almost all other matters , they were bound to a higher law . |
| 16 | The technique of introducing a steam re-heat cycle ( in which steam is extracted from the turbine at an intermediate stage , raised to a higher temperature and reintroduced into the lower pressure stage ) had been pioneered in Britain by consultants and widely adopted in America . |
| 17 | This can be raised to a higher level by suggesting that personal disputes be settled informally and those between state and citizen formally . |
| 18 | In the future evolution of society under women 's guidance , sex would be raised to a higher plane , where physical passion would be transmuted by the power of human love . |
| 19 | He fulfils the role of second son quite adequately in my view , and I trust he will not be summoned to a higher station in life . |
| 20 | Thus we have a proportion as low as 1.6 per cent of the age group studying in higher education in 1979 ( Gasper 1989 : 9 ) , compared to a higher but more vague ‘ less than five per cent ’ given by Ethridge in 1988 ( Ethridge 1988 : 193 ) . |
| 21 | Both have contributed to the higher resale values for diesels , tilting the operating-cost equation in favour of the oil-burners . |
| 22 | So both lack of employment and low pay for those who are employed have contributed to the higher poverty rates . |
| 23 | Just as the Spirit loses its way the harder you drive , so the Carlton is elevated to a higher level . |
| 24 | By autumn indicators pointed to a higher annual growth rate and a lower increase in inflation , but the July to September growth rate of 2.5 per cent was still the lowest since 1986 . |
| 25 | it may have been referred to a higher court . |
| 26 | It would , Burlatsky suggested , be based upon a wide variety of property forms , including state property which would be developed to the higher level of public ownership of the whole people . |
| 27 | The CAA SRG input to them will be that a passenger who has paid to be flown , as a passenger , has the right not to be exposed to a higher risk than any other passenger who has paid to be flown . |
| 28 | In 1856 French secretaries of embassy and legation were divided into three classes and it was ordered that no one was to reach the third and lowest class without having already served as an attaché for three years , while everyone must spend at least three more in each class before being promoted to a higher one . |
| 29 | On this last point three solutions are possible : ( 1 ) the conflict is passed to a higher authority ; ( 2 ) the auditor , as the independent assessor , is granted the authority to assent and defend whatever position he or she believes appropriate ; or ( 3 ) no further work is done and the VFM audit is restricted to only two elements — economy and efficiency . |
| 30 | In their view , the District was meeting the criteria set out in Ashby 's Recommendation 6 and in the 1955 regulations quite admirably : was it not entitled to a higher proportion of grant-aid than those whose standards were poorer , whose students ' fees were lower and who were meeting the needs of their areas less successfully in relation to other providing bodies ? |