Example sentences of "[noun sg] was the high " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the most important findings in our study was the high frequency of extragastric locations of MALT lymphomas , present in half the patients ( 8 of 16 ) . |
| 2 | An unexpected finding of this study was the high incidence of recurrent variceal haemorrhage ( 31% ) among those patients undergoing oesophageal transection and gastric devascularisation . |
| 3 | With 36 per cent of the manual workers ' vote in 1987 the party 's share of the working-class vote was the highest for any post-war election . |
| 4 | The third category for the purposes of review was the High Court . |
| 5 | The president of the council was the High Priest . |
| 6 | They will be aware that the reason for their educational success in the first place was the high proportion of their intake coming from social classes 1 and 2 . |
| 7 | One of the significant features of the examination was the high degree of agreement achieved between the metallurgical experts in an activity where they were concerned with the most advanced aspects of fracture mechanics . |
| 8 | In their 1968 study of the frequency of use of British scientific journals , as measured by requests to the British Library , Martyn & Gilchrist found that Nature was the highest ranked journal , and the highest ranked earth science journal was Journal of Petrology ( ranking one hundred and fifteenth ) . |
| 9 | Pakistan 's score was the highest by any side in a Test in Pakistan , surpassing the 561 they made against New Zealand in 1955-56 , and the highest in matches between the two countries . |
| 10 | The major financial reason for emigration was the higher salaries , pre-tax as well as post-tax , that could be earned by professionals in some other countries . |
| 11 | Car production in March was the highest since November 1990 and commercial vehicle output was the highest since June 1990 . |
| 12 | Balder Head was the highest farm in the dale , as the name suggests , and a family called Green lived there . |
| 13 | His four-goal tally was the highest individual return since Lineker 's quartet in Kuala Lumpur in 1991 . |
| 14 | Since the human race was the highest product of evolution , the development of the human embryo exhibited all of the major stages in the ascent of life . |
| 15 | As a god and therefore able to communicate with all other gods , the king was the high priest of every cult and every temple and the sole officiant in the ritual , and he is shown in this role presenting the offerings in temple reliefs . |
| 16 | The yield was the lowest that he had ever experienced but the price was the highest , which resulted in the best return ever from the crop . |
| 17 | In 42 cases the Canadian price was the highest in the world . |
| 18 | The Department of Health also said the 88 new Aids cases reported last month was the highest increase for some time . |
| 19 | The survey shows that on some issues consumer confidence in the early part of last month was the highest for two years . |
| 20 | The pope 's tribunal was the highest tribunal for all , but why should this tribunal not be extended in practice by the delegation of cases that came to it from all over Europe to judges , acting on behalf of the pope , in the countries from which the appeals came ? |
| 21 | After the final , said the men 's tournament was the highest quality for many years . |
| 22 | The freedom of the city was the highest honour it could bestow , and this has been granted to the Royal Engineers in 1949 ; since then they had taken an active part in the life of the city . |
| 23 | Ochirbat was the highest ranking Mongolian leader to visit China since Premier Yumjaagiyn Tsedenbal arrived in Beijing in 1962 . |
| 24 | The English lesson was the high point of the morning , as the children , 10 or 11 years old , had greeted us smilingly in impeccable English with ‘ How do you do ’ , ‘ Glad to see you ’ , etc. , and gone through various dialogues which they performed smilingly with Chinese stage gestures . |
| 25 | Mr Lawson boasts that between 1981 and 1988 , Britain 's growth rate of 3.5 per cent a year was the highest in Europe . |
| 26 | Unemployment in the Darlington travel to work area in January this year was the highest for ten years at 5,229 or 10.5 per cent . |
| 27 | That year was the high point of the concentration of marital fertility on first and second births . |
| 28 | Hungary 's $21,000 million foreign debt was the highest per capita in eastern Europe . |
| 29 | The Meade Report provided data which showed that in 1975 the maximum rate of taxation on earned income in this country was the highest among ten advanced industrial countries . |
| 30 | The fact is that last month the increase in the total number of vacancies notified to jobcentres throughout the country was the highest on record . |