Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [prep] [art] high [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their advice should probably have been to go down the High Street to a large newsagents and buy one or more magazines devoted to the PC and read up on the subject . |
| 2 | All 133 bedrooms are furnished to a high standard with en-suite bathroom . |
| 3 | The palazzo now offers five lovely apartments all of which are furnished to a high standard some with antiques — and of individual character and charm . |
| 4 | She will ensure that women 's voices are heard at the highest level . |
| 5 | But it could be argued that she has been placed in a high turn-over establishment because she possesses an authoritarian style of leadership . |
| 6 | Timetables have not yet been adjusted for the higher performance of the Class 158s and the journey time to London remains at about 5 hours . |
| 7 | The reason for this may well be the fact that IT , like almost all innovations , has emerged and has been developed to the highest standard in countries with strong democratic forces which are able to counterbalance any propensity for excessive power concentration . |
| 8 | However , the difficulties are highlighted by the high percentage of other land shown in the table , 17.4 per cent , which is largely accounted for by swamp , desert and bare rock . |
| 9 | it may have been referred to a higher court . |
| 10 | The case of Matthew Lucas who is trying to reopen relations with his estranged mother has been referred to the High Court . |
| 11 | Stouts today are not exceptionally strong — usually in the low 1040s OG — and are distinguished by a high hop rate and by their jet black or dark brown colour achieved by the use of roasted malts and unmalted roasted barley . |
| 12 | As both hon. Members will have in mind , European Community monitors are now in place who have been exposed to a high degree of personal risk . |
| 13 | To summarise , again , survey evidence from Appendix 1 , people who had been educated to a higher level , who were more highly paid , or were in a higher social group , seemed more readily able than average to use APR or credit cost information in choosing among loan options . |
| 14 | When the mare basins were excavated the fragmentary material beneath them must have been compressed to a higher density than before . |
| 15 | Profit margins have generally been squeezed by the higher cost of imports , said Trade Indemnity spokeswoman Barbara Bennett . |
| 16 | Precisely this eventuality had been considered at the highest level in the days just before the war ended . |
| 17 | We are committed to the highest safety and environmental standards and put great store by the contractual arrangements in place for the return of wastes . |
| 18 | Judge Sirica 's doubts were confirmed when McCord admitted in March that the defendants had lied at the trial , that they had received payments of over $200 000 to keep quiet and that this had been done from a high level in the White House . |
| 19 | Virtual Personal Computing — the attractive use of graphics , colour , sound and the ‘ mouse ’ which have eased the acceptance of AppleMacs and PCs at this University , have been built upon the high bandwidth once only available between components of a single personal computer . |
| 20 | Accelerated by the current economic recession , old manufacturing industries are disappearing while the new information technology based industries are developing at a high rate . |
| 21 | These foods are prepared from the highest quality ingredients and contain all the nutrients and vitamins that fish require . |
| 22 | Virtually all visitors have found the method by which tangled smelly fleeces are turned into a high quality Axminster carpet thoroughly fascinating . |
| 23 | In contemporary political debate it is ‘ Victorian values ’ which are presented as the high point of family responsibilities , implying that Utopia existed somewhere around the middle to end of the nineteenth century ( West , 1984 ) . |
| 24 | The houses are built to a high specification by D.P. Patton Homes one of the Provinces most reputable building firms and winners of the Pride of the Job award ( 1989 & 1991 ) and designed by a leading firm of Northern Ireland Architects , The Boyd Partnership . |
| 25 | In the various judgments that have been made in the High Court by Mr. Justice Brown , no contempt was found against officials or my hon. Friend for what is called phase 1 and phase 2 . |
| 26 | By s 45 of the Act where an action or matter is transferred from the High Court to a county court , and no order to the contrary has been made in the High Court , the costs of the proceedings prior thereto are in the discretion of the county court judge , and will be taxed in the county court upon such scale , whether of the High Court or county court , as the judge thinks just ( a statement to the contrary can be found on p 868 of the County Court Practice , 1991 but this has been adjudged incorrect : Forey v London Buses Ltd ( 1991 ) 2 All ER 936 ) . |
| 27 | Promotion and sales may not have been seen as a high status activity deserving of such high level management attention . |
| 28 | He had been moved to a higher class , seemed well adjusted and chatted a lot when she worked with him . |
| 29 | The latest production to have commenced shooting in Dublin is ‘ Into The West ’ , the story of a re-housed gypsy who refuses to be parted from his horse — despite the fact that he has been moved to a high rise block . |
| 30 | Unfortunately , the group did not define fetal distress , and the increased incidence may have been related to the higher rate of meconium staining of the amniotic fluid in spontaneous labours , which is to be expected at a later gestation . |