Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] the high [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The largely working-class suburbs pay higher rates for shared services to make up for the high percentage of Detroit residents who default . |
| 3 | Many scorned it but rapturous press reviews helped push the record up into the high altitudes of the independent chart . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The Harpenden test facility will show how these stand up to the high temperatures of the tropics . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | As Alcuin looked back from the high days of his own collaboration with Charlemagne , which also involved his many pupils who became bishops and abbots , he obviously saw a model of this relationship at the York of his younger days , when Eadbert ruled Northumbria while his brother Egbert was archbishop of York and built up the cathedral library . |
| 10 | ‘ We must get back to the high standards of self-discipline that we have set ourselves in the past , ’ said Cooke . |
| 11 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that increasing expenditure on day one of a new Government while failing to deal with the important issue of taxation is the fastest way back to the high levels of inflation which characterised all Labour Governments ? |
| 12 | But this has not stopped some librarians latching on to the high cost of conservation as a reason for dispersing valuable books . |