Example sentences of "to a high " in BNC.
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| 1 | A more powerful figure it would not be possible to evoke from one of Leonard 's background , for it captures a significance which the kite could not : that man is only one of many free creatures , subject with them all to a higher power and influence . |
| 2 | The BeSHT did more ; he promoted it to a higher level of importance ; he confirmed and extended the principle of enjoyment , bringing it much more centrally in to the people 's worship as a sense of divine gladness . |
| 3 | In that way , so Eliot has suggested , Pound made himself responsible for a whole ‘ period ’ , the period of his lifetime , anxiously impatient that it too lift itself to a higher level . |
| 4 | The Joint Security Group takes intelligence about possible forthcoming terrorist attacks — usually provided by MI5 or BfV — and puts Army and RAF units on to a higher state of alert . |
| 5 | But most are also rivals for political promotion to a higher office and , ultimately , for the Prime Minister 's job . |
| 6 | Just as the Spirit loses its way the harder you drive , so the Carlton is elevated to a higher level . |
| 7 | But that was not a pleasant thought and Erika firmly pushed it away , thinking of movement from a lower to a higher stage of development , as Marx taught , and such as was taking place now , she and her mother sitting together , no longer like mother and daughter , teacher and child , but more like sisters . |
| 8 | We need to lift the problem to a higher level of generality , encompassed by the expression ‘ social control , ’ in a benign sense , in order to provide a unifying concept within which the activities of police and other agencies can be co-ordinated . ’ |
| 9 | In some cases there may be a need to introduce steps to allow for movement to a higher level . |
| 10 | In this distinction between possession and use , Clement picked up language from St Paul in 1 Corinthians 7 , recommending that married couples treat sexuality as a means to a higher end , not as an end in itself . |
| 11 | Our degree of enthusiasm at meeting someone varies from a flat ‘ hullo ’ , to a higher and more enthusiastic whinny ! |
| 12 | And then the real work begins , to work it up to a higher and higher level , and this surely can not be done until you have fifteen or twenty years working with the one orchestra . |
| 13 | Now , in his wonderful aria of lamentation , he brought the whole performance to life and raised it to a higher plane of artistry . |
| 14 | In their view , the District was meeting the criteria set out in Ashby 's Recommendation 6 and in the 1955 regulations quite admirably : was it not entitled to a higher proportion of grant-aid than those whose standards were poorer , whose students ' fees were lower and who were meeting the needs of their areas less successfully in relation to other providing bodies ? |
| 15 | The essential principle of this Lift ( which is to be used in lieu of a flight of locks ) is floating of the barge or vessel into a tank and the conveying of that tank with its floating load broadside up or down a slope or inclined plane to a higher or lower pond of the canal respectively into which it is floated from the tank , which is left ready for another barge going in the opposite direction . |
| 16 | If treatment is started with higher potencies e.g. LM 3 and above , then initial aggravations could also be due to a higher potency as with the centesimal potencies . |
| 17 | The House of Lords , to which the LEA appealed after defeat in both the High Court and Court of Appeal , held that the denial of selective single-sex education to a higher proportion of girls than boys was unlawful sex discrimination . |
| 18 | All this points to a higher than usual intelligence quotient . ’ |
| 19 | CPD is obligatory ( but not ‘ mandatory ’ — a fine distinction ) for members of the Institution of Structural Engineers and although this is self monitored , CPD diaries are examined on transfer to a higher class of membership . |
| 20 | factors such as the protein erythropoietin can stimulate red blood cell amplification and there is an increased production of erythropoietin when there is a shortage of oxygen , caused , for example , by going to a higher altitude . |
| 21 | Many fewer people leave school at 16 than did when the examinations were introduced ; and more every year are being encouraged to stay at school or to leave only to go to sixth-form college , college of further education , or wherever else they may receive education that will lead to a higher accreditation . |
| 22 | Linking HLCAs to the degree of natural handicap and the number of LUs ( rising to a higher level for smaller units ) was also recommended . |
| 23 | Indeed , you will probably find it difficult to construct a logical argument to the effect that you are legally entitled to a higher sum than can be arrived at by applying the above calculation . |
| 24 | The visionary places in the ordinary the elements of the eternal and raises it to a higher plane of reality . |
| 25 | We can aspire to a higher consciousness . |
| 26 | For the experienced researcher a new project may well be the extension of past research , taking problems further and trying to develop current knowledge to a higher level . |
| 27 | The chart below shows the average percentage increase in the FT-SE 100 Index over 5 years periods ( commencing 1 January ) from 1 January 1979 to 1 January 1992 in comparison to a higher rate Building Society investment and the rate of inflation over the same periods . |
| 28 | One mark of the climber is the ability to change to a higher gear and accelerate towards the end of a long ascent . |
| 29 | Postgraduate Bursaries are available for certain full-time courses which do not lead to a higher degree . |
| 30 | Studentships are offered for postgraduate study within the field of Humanities at universities and certain other institutions of higher education ; they are available for certain courses of study and research leading to a higher degree , and for certain certificate or diploma courses not covered by the bursary scheme . |