Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] the high [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She must get him on to his feet and down from the high moor before the impending storm . |
| 2 | Thousands of imported sheep had left their devastating mark and the latest ‘ crop ’ , the deer , finished off any saplings the sheep might have missed when they came down from the high tops in the winter . |
| 3 | His first appointment was in Leeds as a poor law surgeon , which he later described as ‘ an ordeal all the medical men of the town go through as the high road to better practice ’ . |
| 4 | Dej and his colleagues did not want to remain the poor peasant cousins of the other Communist states which were going off along the high road to communism . |
| 5 | In choosing a kasabat kadilik , then , a student was in effect shutting himself off from the high offices of state and , provided that he intended to stay within the learned profession , dooming himself to a lifetime of service in the kasabat kadiliks unless he could somehow get back into the medrese stream . |
| 6 | A presidential decree , reported in full in Rossiskaya gazeta of June 18 , allowed state enterprises which failed to pay their debts to the state and to private creditors within three months to be declared bankrupt and either liquidated or auctioned off to the highest bidder for a limited period of time for independent management ( the new managers to be treated as owners , but debarred from dismissing more than 30 per cent of the work force ) . |
| 7 | The largely working-class suburbs pay higher rates for shared services to make up for the high percentage of Detroit residents who default . |
| 8 | Benny walked slowly up towards the high seats at the back where she thought she might be more inconspicuous . |
| 9 | Today , I think people would say that a lot of what we did in those early days has been influential in the general brightening up of the high streets in this country . |
| 10 | But when they brought him up into the higher reaches of the Warden 's Tower and shut him into his new prison he was stupefied to find it all they had claimed . |
| 11 | Many scorned it but rapturous press reviews helped push the record up into the high altitudes of the independent chart . |
| 12 | This is supported by reference to three key features ( p. 114ff. ) , summarised below : Alternating decasyllabic verse is " lighter " in terms of its overall structure ; this shows up in the high degree of promotion of underlyingly unstressed function words to relative stressed status . |
| 13 | The company was wound up in the High Court in February 1989 with tax debts of £35,520 . |
| 14 | On the morrow the Cid took Doña Ximena by the hand , and her daughters with her , and made them go up upon the highest tower of the Alcazar , and they looked toward the sea and saw the great power of the Moors , how they came on and drew nigh , and began to pitch their tents round about Valencia , beating their tambours and with great uproar . |
| 15 | ‘ It 's rather fanciful to think you will be able to walk into a solicitor 's office in Carlisle , engage one lawyer , then argue your case up to the highest court in the land . |
| 16 | The intrepid band braved a precipitous mountain track snaking its way up to the highest peak on the Arabian Peninsula [ Jeebl Nabi el Shwayb — 3,666 metres , or about 12,000 feet ) . |
| 17 | And this ‘ vague altruism ’ apparently permeated up to the highest levels in government : for example , Neville Chamberlain , who had been a leading figure in the pre-war National Government 's denial of the problem of child malnutrition , was so shocked by the stories of the children 's condition that he commented to his sister , ‘ I never knew that such conditions existed , and I feel ashamed of having been so ignorant of my neighbours . |
| 18 | There is jurisdiction for actions valued at less than £50,000 to be transferred up to the High Court under ss41(1) or 42(2) of the County Courts Act 1984 , although such transfers are likely to occur only in exceptional cases raising questions of general public interest . |
| 19 | Apart from certain exceptional cases , a trustee is entitled to no remuneration for his trouble , unless the terms of the trust so direct , and is liable not only for dishonest dealing with the trust property , but for all loss due either to non-observance of the directions in the settlement and the general rules of law , or to failure on his part to act up to the high standard of care which equity and statute law require of him . |
| 20 | The paintwork on the back of the bootlid looked decidedly patchy and certainly not up to the high standard on the rest of the car . |
| 21 | Franca surveyed her long athletic bare legs and the smudge of the scar on her knee as she reached up to the high shelf of a cupboard . |
| 22 | The Harpenden test facility will show how these stand up to the high temperatures of the tropics . |
| 23 | The level of orders received in the first quarter worsened compared with a year earlier , but turnover in the first quarter was up to the high levels of the year-ago quarter . |
| 24 | When a colleague had some treatment , a tape was played and he was made to look up at the highest point of the ceiling . |
| 25 | Athelstan went into the nave and sat at the base of a pillar , legs crossed , whilst he stared up at the high altar behind the rood screen . |
| 26 | Darlington businesses have been wound up by the High Court in London . |
| 27 | The material taken out of the higher point of the site was deemed unsuitable for use at the lower end . |
| 28 | Several times in the next few months I went up to the top floor again , where I could look out of the high windows in the roof to see the surrounding countryside and be alone with my thoughts . |
| 29 | But somebody saved the best for last : when Christie cam out of the High Court with his windfall he discovered that this car , alone of all those in the road , had been clamped . |
| 30 | He took a very pretty and rather commodious cottage-residence at Southall Green , Middlesex , about a mile out of the high road to Uxbridge , and exactly 10 miles from Tyburn Gate . |