Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [art] highest " in BNC.
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| 1 | George Wood had hinted , and not too darkly , about the ‘ lads ’ who knew how to get past the guards and into the mines at night : he had intimated that there was a prosperous smugglers ' route through the highest mountain passes to the coast where the ore would be taken over to Ireland or down to Liverpool and Swansea . |
| 2 | Of these countries , West Germany as the highest consumption of spirits at about 8 litres a year , Portugal the lowest at 2 litres . |
| 3 | ‘ Brighty ’ earned the Golden Boot award for the highest scorer in Division Two in 1987–88 , in which he hit 24 goals , and his efforts in the following promotion term , in which he played in every match , took him into the select group of men who have netted over 50 League goals for our club . |
| 4 | Jonathan Tan , a sixthform student at Manchester Grammar School , won the 1991 RSC award for the highest mark in the GCE A-level chemistry examination set by the JMB . |
| 5 | Otherwise 100 litres is taken as the base for the highest consumption process and for the others doses are expressed proportional to the highest level . |
| 6 | They , therefore , form a smaller share of total income for the highest income group . |
| 7 | Polyacetylene is a semiconductor , with an energy gap of 1.7 electron-volts between the highest filled set of electron energy levels and the lowest empty levels . |
| 8 | Thus , although it has been stated that there are practically no high kicks in kung fu , the practitioner who emulates the crane is training his legs for the highest possible kicks . |
| 9 | For the SGML-aware , we present here a somewhat simplified version of the SGML declarations for the highest level elements in the TEI scheme : |
| 10 | The pair were only five runs away from displacing Lord Hawk and David Hunter from the record books for the highest last wicket stand for the county when Sidebottom ran himself out on 124 , leaving Robinson unbeaten on 30 . |
| 11 | During the first half of the fifteenth century , for example , though slaves had come to man a large part of the standing army and to hold the lesser vezirliks , it was only after the conquest of Istanbul and the consequent fall of the Grand Vezir Candarli Halil Pasa that it became more or less regular practice for the highest office of the central administration , that of Grand Vezir , to be held by men of slave origin . |
| 12 | While the golf trade generally had been slow to respond , the R & A continued its generous support and the Gus Payne Trophy for the highest club donation to the annual appeal went to Wentworth , which raised a record total of £9,005 . |
| 13 | This year Sally raised a total of £384.65 and was delighted to receive a plaque for the highest amount raised by an individual . |
| 14 | In Chapter 2 , I argued that the emancipatory conception of higher education — as I termed it — is to be found historically in the deep structure of the concept of higher education ( and I developed the idea in Chapter 8 , in discussing emancipation as the highest form of rationality ) . |
| 15 | However , over the past five years , a new industry has developed that makes and markets machines whose purpose and promise is that they can outthink humans in an arena traditionally thought to demand reasoning of the highest sort . |
| 16 | They were in irresistible form on Saturday , their status as the First Division 's leading goalscorers providing ample evidence of attacking flair allied to their now restored traditional defensive solidity , and thrilled the country 's biggest crowd of the day — an impressive 36,016 — with football of the highest quality . |
| 17 | Maguire 's remarkable exploits rightly grabbed most of the headlines , but Fitzgerald impressed as a horseman of the highest quality with 38 successes from limited opportunities . |
| 18 | Brabham had come quite close to the championship in I975 , and in Reutemann and Pace it had two first-line drivers of the highest quality . |
| 19 | Pressure on available land ensured that less productive animals were culled regularly and the combination of these factors , along with what seems to be a natural milkiness among the lowland cattle of northwest Europe , produced dairy stock of the highest quality . |
| 20 | He played a leading role in the $5m deal with Morrow that gave his novel Whirlwind a place in the Guinness Book of Records as the recipient of the highest ever advance for a single work of fiction . |
| 21 | The new ‘ box had to be capable of handling the torque of the highest performance versions whilst still fitting into a very small space . |
| 22 | Objective : The attainment by all peoples of the highest possible level of health . |
| 23 | Objective : The attainment by all peoples of the highest possible level of health . |
| 24 | Daryl tried to imitate all they did , she was good to , but not quite so good as they were , but she was quite fearless and divide of the highest diving board and went down a chute in all kinds of peculiar position . |
| 25 | In one important sense , however , it is questionable whether they yet constituted a distinct class of medreses in this period , namely that teaching in one or another of them appears not to have been a prerequisite for the holding of the highest mevleviyets . |
| 26 | Only from roughly the middle of the tenth/sixteenth century-perhaps coincidentally with the building of two other medreses which were to form part of the altmisli class , namely that attached to the mosque built by Suleyman for his son , Sehzade Mehmed ( the Sehzade medrese , completed in 954/1547 ) , and that built by the same sultan for his father , Selim I , apparently around 955/1548 — can one discern in the biographical sources the existence of a class of medreses , comprising these and others , one rank higher than the Sahn and normally carrying a salary of 60 akce , teaching in one of which seems to have been a generally recognized prerequisite for the holding of the highest learned offices . |
| 27 | The tax profession has lost not only a practitioner of the highest calibre but also a very good friend . |
| 28 | Here was a student who overworked for more than a year and needed rest ; who was already in an emotional condition by the recognition of the highest ideals and their obligation upon him ; and then , instead of the rest which he needed , he had to endure the utterly unexpected death , in very distressing family conditions , of the person in the world to whom he felt nearest . |
| 29 | Nevertheless , it was a jubilant team which returned from the match venue on the River Sorria in Portugal with the highest ever placing for an Irish team in this event . |
| 30 | In the 460-member Sejm , 391 seats were decided on a proportional representation system in 37 electoral districts ; parties won seats according to the aggregate vote for their candidates in a given district , and then allocated them to the candidates with the highest individual totals . |