Example sentences of "[noun] a high [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | In these industrial districts a high proportion of families earned a substantial part of their living from metal crafts or mining or the manufacture of cloth . |
| 2 | By analogy , in clinical practice a high count of intraepithelial lymphocytes in an architecturally normal small bowel biopsy will also imply a state of T cell activation , either antigen driven — for example , gluten , giardia , histocompatibility antigens — or as a result of abberrant mucosal immunoregulation ( as in some theories of the pathogenesis of inflammatory bowel disease ) . |
| 3 | It is undisputed that , notwithstanding single capacity , there existed within the financial service industry a high incidence of conflict of interest situations . |
| 4 | One case involved the acquisition by Fiat of a French battery manufacturer which gave Fiat a high share of the French market . |
| 5 | In their answers to that question a high proportion of pupils in all three bands left off the " pm " after the 12 hour clock time . |
| 6 | Giving them and other first-time buyers a higher rate of tax relief for an initial period will help to ease the financial pressures of the early days of home ownership . |
| 7 | Throughout the period a high percentage of workers , especially in the newly developed areas and the many enterprises set up in rural areas , were born into peasant families . |
| 8 | It demonstrates what appears to have been a major weakness of the UK economy , namely that the UK has required over the last twenty years a higher rate of gross investment to produce a given increase in output , than did West Germany , France , Japan , the USA or Canada . |
| 9 | In some years a high proportion of the birds involved are adult males . |
| 10 | In this case a high percentage of plasmids without insert is obtained and these can only be distinguished from the positive ones by restriction analyses . |
| 11 | Certainly in Newham a higher proportion of eligible sample members were admitted to institutional care straight away in the control sample than in the action sample ( 35 per cent compared to 20 per cent ) ; the hypothesis is not supported in Ipswich however , where 31 per cent in the control sample and 37 per cent in the action sample were admitted straight away . |
| 12 | Some are unwanted high parity conceptions ; in addition a high proportion of abortions at this age are carried out because a congenital malformation has been diagnosed in the foetus . |
| 13 | I find that about 5 per cent of the students I teach are never able to overcome this difficulty ( even though they may have perfect hearing and in some cases a high level of linguistic and musical ability ) ; of the remainder , a few are especially gifted and can not understand how anyone could find the task difficult , and most others eventually learn after five or ten hours of practical classes . |
| 14 | The indications are , however , that in both types of court a higher proportion of Blacks pleaded ‘ not guilty ’ and of these a higher proportion of Blacks were acquitted . |
| 15 | Although initiatives such as these are great for the individual managers and staff , they also provide Whitbread with a skilled and knowledgeable workforce which can offer customers a high level of service and product advice . |
| 16 | It offers both traders and customers a high level of certainty as to exactly what is on offer . |
| 17 | People are encouraged to set themselves high standards in order for Whitbread , in turn , to offer its customers a high standard of service . |
| 18 | The project , which aims to cover three-quarters of the service work by the end of the century , is intended to give chief executives of agencies a higher degree of autonomy from central control . |
| 19 | The structure of ownership allows the individual consultants a high level of personal profit ; they can receive almost half of the billings . |
| 20 | Moving from left to right this establishes the proportion of each student registered on a field which is likely to contribute to each subject area 's FTE in each stage ( b , c ) , sets this against current FTEs ( agreed in the 1 November census — after some major ‘ servicing ’ arrangements are allowed for ; for example a high proportion of Stage I accounting is taught by staff from the catering fields ) ( a ) , and adds the likely effect of recruitment targets and combinations for September 1988 ( ij ) , to produce an FTE prediction for the next year ( m ) . |
| 21 | At Sleaford a higher proportion of graves with amber beads contained small-long brooches and pendants than those without , the latter being more strongly characterised by the presence of cruciform brooches . |
| 22 | He develops within his staff a high degree of customer sensitivity and receptivity . |
| 23 | This very smart modern 5 star hotel offers a high standard of comfort and service . |
| 24 | So although the new machine contains less metal than its predecessor , if offers a high standard of construction . |
| 25 | In the early stages a higher proportion of errors will occur , but these should be shown to have value in the process of reaching a solution . |
| 26 | Even at the level of the Nikol'sk village Soviet a high proportion of time was spent on tax problems . |
| 27 | Two of the abiding characteristics of these businesses are first that like newspapers a high proportion of their costs are fixed and secondly , unlike newspapers er , their main selling season is in the second half of the year . |
| 28 | In an era of increasing motor vehicle accidents involving children a high degree of awareness of traumatic rupture of the diaphragm and the possibility of late presentation is essential for prompt diagnosis and the consequent reduction in morbidity and mortality . |
| 29 | Annual recruitment had to be even heavier than this total suggests , since well into the nineteenth century a high percentage of recruits died before even reaching their regiments and disease took a heavy toll among established troops . |
| 30 | By the middle years of the nineteenth century a high proportion of the male workforce were without land and were working full time at the craft ; women and girls also found employment in large numbers . |