Example sentences of "have [vb pp] a higher " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a given outlay of local currency it has ensured a higher value of imports than would have been available under a market valuation of the currency . |
| 2 | The Commissioner has adopted a higher profile recently by exhibiting at various professional gatherings . |
| 3 | Trainee joiner Steven Hart , 22 , of Harrowgate Hill , Darlington , who works for conservatory company Amdega , has reached a higher plane by winning the Carpentry and Foundation award . |
| 4 | AFTER three years ' study , analyst programmer Ray Marsh from the Barlaston computer department has achieved a Higher National Diploma qualification in computer studies . |
| 5 | If the quality of public services has achieved a higher political profile in general , it has reached a positively frantic pitch in health care . |
| 6 | Under these conditions they could have expected a higher failure rate . |
| 7 | Robert did not like to think of himself as a snob , but , had he been in charge of the Independent Wimbledon Day Islamic Boys ’ School , he would have expected a higher standard of civility from the cleaning staff . |
| 8 | Our data were subject to several constraints : a far lower response rate from probation officers in the second survey ; the effects of changes in agency policies and practices during the two survey years ( e.g. medics ' notifying practices , police detection efforts/successes ) ; the ‘ loss ’ of some users identified in the first survey , and of some new users , to institutions and agencies not covered by the research ( e.g. custody , rehabilitation units , drug agencies in adjacent areas ) ; disillusionment with some agencies among heroin users ( particularly medical services ) , which may have produced a higher ratio of unknown to known users than in the previous year ; the optimistic assumption of 20 per cent annual outcidence-for instance , one review of follow-up studies of opioid users suggests that outcidence after one year is typically around 10 per cent , and may only reach 40–50 per cent after ten years , even for those who have received ‘ treatment ’ ( Home Office 1986 , ch. 7 ) ; and the decline in the size of the youth population , due largely to the drop in the birth rate during the 1960s-that is , the absolute number of known heroin users could decrease while the rate per 1,000 youths remained the same or even increased ( the population figures from which our prevalence rates were calculated derived from 1981 Census statistics , and do not take into account projected trends ) . |
| 9 | It is a tribute to the awe in which Indirect Rule was held in the 1920s that their pretensions were taken seriously : few deliberative bodies in history can have had a higher regard for themselves as repositories of political wisdom than did the Conference of Residents . |
| 10 | Conservative group leader Tony Richmond accused finance committee chair Jan Taylor of saying the council would have set a higher budget if it were not for government spending constraints . |
| 11 | These factors increase the overall spread in their data and may have allowed a higher correlation between the measures . |
| 12 | This also applies to the Cheesewring Quarry , which seems to have had a higher than normal accident rate in the past few years . |
| 13 | In his writings on the colonial situation in China and India , Marx was puzzled by the fact that , although both these countries seemed to have reached a higher state of civilization than Europe in earlier times , they were in his time being overtaken by Europe , as the colonial conquests showed . |
| 14 | Since then the condition of housing in rural areas seems on average to have reached a higher standard than that in many urban areas , even where renovation or renewal policies have been conducted . |
| 15 | Taxation appears to have taken a higher fraction of profits in the United States than in some other countries ( around one-half in the USA in 1960 as against about one-third in Japan ) . |
| 16 | His successful bid was for £190,000 although he had made a higher prior offer which had been turned down . |
| 17 | I in , in the north you 've got a higher proportion of owner-occupiers and |
| 18 | On food control , the level of food hygiene inspections at seven hundred and thirty we 've achieved by buying in consultants to do some work for us in our priority area , and we 're were able to do that with Derek Welk 's retirement , leaving us with some unspent staff , and so we 've achieved a higher figure there than we expected we would do . |
| 19 | They have enjoyed a higher level of formal education than their older colleagues , some of them possessing degrees in chemistry or biology from universities or polytechnics . |
| 20 | ‘ Each year I have noticed a higher standard of living ’ , the bishop wrote in his eulogy of this ‘ brave man ’ , whose ‘ exceedingly generous ’ treatment of the churches in Romania was something of which ‘ we in Britain might well be envious ’ . |
| 21 | In some regions of Northamptonshire recent tests have revealed a higher proportion of homes about the limit than was predicted . |
| 22 | Previous results have shown a higher threshold of rectal sensation in men than in women . |
| 23 | Well it 's got a higher voltage . |
| 24 | Previous studies have noted a higher mortality in the community group , but this was not the case in Islington . |
| 25 | For this purpose a test may be used to discriminate those pupils who have attained a higher level from those at a lower level . |