Example sentences of "[vb pp] [art] higher " in BNC.
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| 1 | The strike was the latest stage in a dispute which dated from 1990 , when Cossiga had first criticized the Higher Council of Magistates ( CSM ) , of which he was titular president . |
| 2 | These services have brought in new customers — Lombard NatWest claims more than 300 — but some rivals say the marketing of these services has been less aggressive during the recession , given the higher risks often associated with new business . |
| 3 | Given the higher demand curve D 2 D 2 , short-run marginal cost pricing will lead to a price P 2 and the industry will produce at full capacity . |
| 4 | Does the hon. Gentleman agree that , given the higher participation rate in Scotland and the importance of the four-year degree there , it would be right to allocate proportionately more resources to the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council ? |
| 5 | Given the higher risk associated with equity , a positive yield gap ( i.e. with earnings yield greater than the bond yield ) would be expected . |
| 6 | During the Eighties , it has been the Thatcher-Reagan model which has enjoyed the higher global vogue . |
| 7 | There are some unavoidable costs er on that account , particularly on the engine programme where delays to the aircraft programme which result in extra costs on the engine side , are the customer 's liability , erm but the main increase in cost is actually in the equipment area and results I think , from the fact that the equipment prices turned out to be higher than was originally estimated at the start of the programme and also the fact that U K industry won a higher work share on equipment that we had originally been entitled to and budgeted for and lastly the point you mentioned that Germany has withdrawn from some parts of the requirement and that made certain equipments non-common and we have had to take a larger share of the costs of those equipments than originally planned . |
| 8 | Erm , but the main increase in cost is actually in the equipment area and results I think from the fact that the equipment prices turned out to be higher than was originally estimated at the start of the programme and also the fact that U K industry won a higher work share on equipment than we had originally been entitled to and budgeted for and lastly the point you mentioned that Germany has withdrawn from some parts of the requirement and that made certain equipments non common and we have had to take a larger share of the cost of those equipments than originally planned . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | In contrast , trade unions in France had too little organisational strength in the workplace to be able to inflict major economic losses on the firm and they were considered to be too ideologically radical to be permitted a higher degree of participation . |
| 11 | Under these conditions they could have expected a higher failure rate . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | However , while Clarke should be fit after the recurrence of a back problem , the Cookstown player 's chances of featuring today are rated no higher than 50-50 , following a hamstring injury , sustained on Friday . |
| 14 | In some regions of Northamptonshire recent tests have revealed a higher proportion of homes about the limit than was predicted . |
| 15 | The Commissioner has adopted a higher profile recently by exhibiting at various professional gatherings . |
| 16 | His successful bid was for £190,000 although he had made a higher prior offer which had been turned down . |
| 17 | ‘ 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 ’ . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 ) . |
| 20 | Ian Durrant took over from an out-of-touch Peter Huistra at the interval and Rangers certainly produced a higher work rate in the second period . |
| 21 | The jury and I have n't got a higher degree in mathematics , you know . |
| 22 | I in , in the north you 've got a higher proportion of owner-occupiers and |
| 23 | Well it 's got a higher voltage . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | ‘ I 've never had a higher pulpit , ’ he said . |
| 26 | Just after we closed for press on Friday , news came through that NCR Corp 's chairman and chief executive Gilbert Williamson would retire from the company in May and would be succeeded by Jerre Stead , currently president of AT&T Co 's Global Business Communications Systems , which he is credited with having turned around ; Stead , 50 , will have the title group executive-NCR , and will be succeeded by Patricia Russo , currently vice president-national sales and service for the Global Business Unit ; although the switch is being presented as amicable , there are mutters that AT&T is concerned that NCR has not had a higher profile since acquisition . |
| 27 | Just after we closed for press last week , news came through that NCR Corp 's chairman and chief executive Gilbert Williamson would retire from the company in May and would be succeeded by Jerre Stead , currently president of AT&T Co 's Global Business Communications Systems , which he is credited with having turned around ; Stead , 50 , will have the title group executive-NCR , and will be succeeded by Patricia Russo , currently vice president-national sales and service for the Global Business Unit ; although the switch is being presented as amicable , there are mutters that AT&T is concerned that NCR has not had a higher profile since acquisition . |
| 28 | This also applies to the Cheesewring Quarry , which seems to have had a higher than normal accident rate in the past few years . |
| 29 | Previous results have shown a higher threshold of rectal sensation in men than in women . |
| 30 | Now modal tag is one for seeking agreement whereas an effective tag is one that shows concern to the addressee and according to this study , if you looked and the sheer number of tags , women did use more tags than men , but in actual fact women used a higher proportion of the effective tags than men did . |