Example sentences of "high and [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But today , fortified by her experiences , feeling six feet high and a tower of strength , Miss Fogerty led the entire school into morning assembly and faced a host of questioning eyes with unaccustomed composure and authority . |
| 2 | Biddy 's horse was sixteen hands high and a thoroughbred . |
| 3 | This is a time of tension when the stakes may be high and a future plan hangs by a thread . |
| 4 | The wind was NW , gale Force 8 gusting to 9 , the seas were more than 6ft high and a swell of some 9ft was running . |
| 5 | At first Carrie hardly dared look at her but when she did she saw nothing alarming or sinister , just an old lady with silvery hair piled up high and a pale , invalid 's face . |
| 6 | It was an Andalusian ; a beauty of a horse , sixteen hands high and a perfect mulberry in colour . |
| 7 | And by his side , with his shoulders straight , his head held high and a smile on his lips , walked young Colin ! |
| 8 | The cost of living in Britain is high and a single student grant is not adequate for the maintenance of a wife or husband . |
| 9 | Coke gives them a quick high and a safe return . |
| 10 | Have you got a couple of settings on yours is it a high and a low ? |
| 11 | Bacteria and algae are the most commonly used photosynthesising organisms in single-cell protein production and are best cultivated in shallow ponds where temperatures are high and an adequate nutrient supply is present . |
| 12 | It was constructed by Agrippa in 18–19 B.C. and consists of two tiers of arches each about 65 feet high and an upper tier of smaller arches 28 feet high . |
| 13 | The fees were high and the atmosphere rarefied . |
| 14 | The main cloud base should be at least 2000 feet above the highest ground in the region , the freezing level must be high and the visibility should be good . |
| 15 | At low frequencies the signals do not have much carrying capacity , but go too high and the oxygen and hydrogen molecules in the atmosphere can actually vibrate in sympathy with the radio waves , absorbing the signals . |
| 16 | In serious hazard regulation , too , the stakes are high and the so-called ‘ human factor ’ in accident causation is an issue . |
| 17 | ‘ He discoursed about his understanding of the Church and he said that we had to hold the high and the low together but for his part his sympathies were with the high . |
| 18 | The risks were high and the casualties many . |
| 19 | Prices remained high and the index closed 136 points up on the day at 2,573 . |
| 20 | The sceptics argue that the cost of running rail services will prove too high and the return too low for the private sector . |
| 21 | It came to Kanchelskis waist high and the Ukranian , who struggled in the last month to retain his place , scored with a perfect volley . |
| 22 | We had always lived in a healthy country , where the mountains were high and the water was cold and clear . |
| 23 | Three of the grey slabs stand more than fifteen feet high and the setting is superb . |
| 24 | If , as seems probable , most teachers will sort out their pupils into the high and the low fliers at a fairly early stage , and if there is a whole separate set of papers in some subjects for the high and the low , then the difference between the higher grades of GCSE and O levels will not turn out to be very great . |
| 25 | If , as seems probable , most teachers will sort out their pupils into the high and the low fliers at a fairly early stage , and if there is a whole separate set of papers in some subjects for the high and the low , then the difference between the higher grades of GCSE and O levels will not turn out to be very great . |
| 26 | It was considered triple-purpose : the big oxen put to the plough , the cows milked and the steers fattened to feed ( specifically ) the mining and industrial areas of the Midlands and south Wales ; the meat was produced in large joints but the proportion of bone to meat was high and the bone coarse . |
| 27 | The peculiarity of the proportions ( published in French and English in 1791 in an essay dedicated to the Prince of Wales ) is that the measurements are not given direct but are based on the head , divided into 22 equal parts ( according to Percivall , Eclipse stood 16l/2 hands high and the head measured 22 inches ) . |
| 28 | In the case of lions , not only was a rival male likely to be a close relative , but the costs of physically competing with him were high and the benefits low . |
| 29 | The paradox about all this information explosion or whatever it is called is that the speed of its distribution is so high and the actual receiving of it by a human being is so necessarily slow and far more inefficient than it is achieved by other methods , such as reading printed marks on paper . |
| 30 | Some who are still young enough plan a baby without a husband , but the cost to the mother will be high and the cost to the child , who has no choice in the matter , may be even higher . |