Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] the high [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although Viking was lying quietly enough at the moment we could tell by the sudden gusts which hissed down from the high southern cliff that it was blowing quite hard on the weather side . |
| 2 | With his skill as the basis , the Embalmer will not be content unless all other departments with which he has contact are brought up to the highest possible standard . |
| 3 | Craned my neck to look for a way up to the high high bridge , saw a rocky overgrown path over the other side of the road . |
| 4 | The problem here is not just possessiveness and failure to live up to the high ethical ideals proclaimed by a religion . |
| 5 | It was very hot and she lay under the single sheet staring up at the high moonlit ceiling and thinking about T. Buckland Kettering . |
| 6 | Goschenen then is the place of decisions : whether to take the tunnel through to Italian-speaking Ticino and southern climes , or to proceed to Andermatt on the old Gotthard road which now climbs sharply up to cross the Reuss tributary and after some hairpin bends enters the forbidding rock walls of the Schollenen gorge which took centuries for road builders to master , first by bridle paths on suspended plank bridges and in more modern days by tunnels and galleries as well as daring bridges Emerging from the gorge the road crosses the Reuss waterfall on the " Devil 's bridge " and enters the wide Urseren valley in which Andermatt lies , occupying the strategic position at the " crossroads of Switzerland " or even of Europe — where the main west-east route carved out of the high alpine massif by the Rhine and Rhone rivers crosses the north-south route gouged out by rivers Reuss and Ticino . |
| 7 | Investment was low , interest rates rose , there was concern over a fall in the population level from its 1974 peak of 62 million , and there were calls to cut back on the high social welfare spending built up by the SPD governments . |
| 8 | ‘ A great deal of time and effort has gone into ensuring that all materials and finishes co-ordinate effectively and that the work was carried out to the highest possible standards , befitting a grand old Bank , ’ said Tony Caroli , Property Project Manager . |
| 9 | The execution of these ideas with regard to graphical presentation and production of an addictive shoot-em-up arcade game have been carried out to the highest professional standard . |
| 10 | We presumed this to be a regular ford and drove across with the water slopping in over the floor of the Land rover , but we eventually made it up on to the high inland plateau . |