Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the high [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Top cash are on offer to professional and amateur players with £150 added for the highest break in the competition by bookmaker Joe Suckling . |
| 2 | The Odeon dominated from the highest point in Exeter , surrounded by terraced houses like regular furrows in a ploughed field . |
| 3 | The church stands on the highest point in the village . |
| 4 | Perhaps because after an almost fatal spasm , Coleridge thought his marriage was now bearable — although on this eight-day storming and often precipitous walk around the mountains and lakes he was to write a passionate letter to the woman he desired as his mistress while perched on the highest mountain in England . |
| 5 | While the Society of Women Market Vendors exposed the corruption of the PDC and objected to the high tariffs in the new markets , it was not sufficiently organized to form a counter-proposal or take action upon it . |
| 6 | NINE of 13 drug charges against a former tyre depot manager were dropped at the High Court in Aberdeen yesterday . |
| 7 | It starts at the highest office in the country — and works right through to the youngest , newest , employee . |
| 8 | Precisely this eventuality had been considered at the highest level in the days just before the war ended . |
| 9 | Seven law lords acting as the highest court in the Commonwealth have ruled that two men on death row in Jamaica for fourteen years should have their sentence commuted to life imprisonment . |
| 10 | The invasion of Cambodia by US troops in 1970 can be seen as the high point in a twenty-year erosion of the legislature 's role in the making of foreign and defence policy . |
| 11 | David MacLehose , director of the Confederation of British Industry in Scotland , said a fall in unemployment was always welcome , especially when it was matched with the highest increase in notified vacancies at job centres for two years . |
| 12 | Jean Campbell , alias Bruce , which came before the High Court in Glasgow on 17th July 1817 is of considerable interest for two reasons . |
| 13 | An application for a judicial review of an inquest on three fishermen drowned when their vessel foundered in the Irish Sea in September 1988 will be lodged in the High Court in London today . |
| 14 | Three organisers of an Acid House party who were jailed for three months for breaching an injunction banning an event in Warwickshire were freed in the High Court in London yesterday after apologising . |
| 15 | Later an affadavit was presented to the High Court in London supporting an application by the foundation for injunctions freezing all Aberdour 's assets to be extended to any overseas holdings . |
| 16 | We 've seen cars submerged , houses underwater , we 've even seen fish swimming down the High Street in Uffington |
| 17 | Eventually , on 11 February 1992 the appeal was transferred to the High Court in London where the matter has been listed before me today , 17 February 1992 . |
| 18 | Accordingly , the jurisdiction of the visitors in these matters was a jurisdiction which was transferred to the High Court in 1873 and retained there by section 18(3) of the Act of 1925 and section 10(3) ( b ) of the Act of 1981 . |
| 19 | A payment made by a third party to a company 's employee , but taxable under Sch E as arising from his employment , was subject to deduction of income tax at source under the PAYE Regulations , according to the High Court in Booth v Mirror Group Newspapers plc [ 1992 ] STI 662 . |
| 20 | Next time you walk down the High Street in your home town , or the main shopping street of your region 's biggest city , stop at every telephone box you see . |
| 21 | But Cherwell council successfully appealed to the High Court in November . |
| 22 | Sheets were attached to each end of a beam of wood and then secured to the highest rafter in the roof , which at this stage was still open to the elements . |
| 23 | But in an announcement made at the High Court in London it 's agreed to pay compensation on the basis of 85 percent liability . |
| 24 | The same applies if a person having care of a child by virtue of an order made by the High Court in exercise of its inherent jurisdiction agrees to the provision of accommodation . |
| 25 | Thorold Mackie was alleged at the High Court in Edinburgh to have used information obtained from a company chairman about an impending profits warning . |
| 26 | Used by the highest deity in heaven , its head is formed into the shape of a cloud . |
| 27 | This doctrine was never , however , approved by the highest court in the land , the House of Lords . |
| 28 | Even the case from this period that was included in the Black report ( with the year of diagnosis wrongly given as 1983 rather than 1984 ) was diagnosed after concern had been raised about the high incidence in Seascale . |
| 29 | The fifteen year old victim told police she was assaulted a year ago as she walked along the High Street in Oxford . |
| 30 | The Government are promoting action on animal welfare in the European Community , based on the high standards in this country . |