Example sentences of "high as the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Breaking off a stout twig , he curled a foot under the window 's lower edge and lifted it as high as the rusty hinges would allow . |
| 2 | Clerical , Medical and General Life Assurance Society does not guarantee that the amount to be paid if the contract is terminated at one of the durations specified will be as high as the amount indicated . |
| 3 | Clerical Medical and General Life Assurance Society does not guarantee that the amount to be paid if the contract is terminated at one of the durations specified will be as high as the amount indicated . |
| 4 | I wish to go as high as the church steeple , ’ she told the broom firmly . |
| 5 | Log paper comes in several numbers of cycles ; the specimen in figure 11.6 contains three cycles , allowing the highest number to be as much as 10 3 or 1000 times as high as the smallest ; four cycle paper would allow it to be as much as 10 4 or 10,000 times as high . |
| 6 | Do you also remember another New Testament scholar at Manchester who flipped and declared that the word ‘ Jesus ’ was really a code for a sacred mushroom and the Bible was a do-it-yourself manual for getting as high as the stars without leaving your body ? |
| 7 | This episode put me off water for years , the platform had seemed almost as high as the Blackpool Tower which we had just visited . |
| 8 | The first edition , dated 1796 , apparently contained the notorious instruction , in the treatment of ‘ staggers ’ , of having the ‘ hair clipped off the pasterns as high as the fetlock , and boiling water poured on the part twice a day ’ . |
| 9 | The joint team established that the temperature of the electrons in the T-3 tokamak really was as high as the Soviet scientists estimated they were on the basis of their less-direct measurements . |
| 10 | Though I jumped too when he cracked the whip , there came a time when I refused to jump as high as the others . |
| 11 | I suppose on the studio engineer evolutionary scale I rate about as high as the average amoeba , which makes me the perfect test pilot for this series of videos . |
| 12 | Although not as high as the Alps , some of the peaks reach a most reasonable height of over 4,000′ . |
| 13 | In the event , they found the crossing reasonably easy , the water never reaching as high as the beasts ' bellies . |
| 14 | And high above , at the end of the curve , the steep hillsides rose as high as the rim of the dormant volcano on High Island . |
| 15 | In Brisbane where 300,000 people packed together in the city centre , hysteria ran as high as the baking 95 degree temperature . |
| 16 | To this could be added the possibility of building the towers only as high as the wall itself , thus enabling the cannon used for defence to be moved along its length ( now on one level ) to whichever part it was most needed . |
| 17 | Heavy posts , reeking of creosote and paint , towered up as high as the holly trees in the hedge , and the board they carried threw a long shadow across the top of the field . |
| 18 | in fact , in some cases fixed costs can enable the established firm to price as high as the monopoly level yet induce no entry — what Bain called " blockaded entry " ( see Dixit , 1979 ) . |
| 19 | Only in areas of very high unemployment was there any substantial proportion for whom the ending of temporary jobs was the reason for unemployment ( it was given by nearly 14 per cent of the sample in areas where unemployment was at least twice as high as the national average ) . |
| 20 | A minute later her head was as high as the tallest tree in the wood , and she was looking at a sea of green leaves . |
| 21 | Indeed , 22.4 per cent of the migrants could be defined as return migrants ( Shaw , 1984 ) and although this is n't as high as the 30 to 40 per cent rates recorded in north Norway ( Nicholson , 1975 ) it is much higher than the 5.5 per cent found in northwest Ireland ( Foeken , 1980 ) , and very different from the situation in northern Scotland where Jones et al . |
| 22 | Thus the Newsom Report , which examined secondary schooling for children of average or less than average ability , concluded that the proportion of schools in slum areas which were seriously inadequate was twice as high as the proportion of all schools in the sample . |
| 23 | The incidence of severe acute renal failure in the community is at least twice as high as the incidence reported from renal unit based studies . |
| 24 | A sweet , deep pain closed about his manhood , and it was then that desire rocketed out of control , and he felt himself become as hard and as high as the beech trees that stood sentinel to Tara 's western avenue … |
| 25 | Durance was weary of both of them but the price of their silence was as high as the price of Sabine Jourdain 's . |
| 26 | The procession of raised rook and chicken pies , with their intricate decorations , that made its appearance in the kitchen raised their expectations as high as the pie coffins , as did the jellies vanishing into the larders , and sorbets into the refrigerators . |
| 27 | ‘ The back , ’ said Charlotte , watching , ‘ was dry as high as the shoulder-blades . |
| 28 | Already small heaps of green faggots were laid about the stool , with dry weeds on top as high as the victim 's groin . |
| 29 | ‘ If I had my way , I would burn the entire place to the ground and hang Fitzosbert on a scaffold as high as the sky . |
| 30 | Her mind leapt as high as the moon — somehow she knew the seal could answer her heart 's desire — but how could she make it happen ? |