Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] [prep] the high [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bankruptcy proceedings must be commenced in the High Court ( in London ) if : ( i ) the petition is presented by a Government department , and either in the statutory demand an indication to petition in the High Court is stated or the petition is based upon an unsatisfied execution ; or ( ii ) the debtor by or against whom the petition is presented has resided or carried on business within the London insolvency district for the greater part of the six months immediately preceding the presentation of the petition or for a longer period during those six months than in any other insolvency district ; or ( iii ) the debtor is not resident in England and Wales ; or ( iv ) the petitioning creditor is unable to ascertain the residence of the debtor ( tr 6.9(1) and 6.40 ) . |
| 2 | In Chapter 14 we saw that risky activities on average will need to earn a higher rate of return to compensate for the higher risks involved . |
| 3 | But organisers defiantly refused to allow the curtain to fall on the high life of the amateur drama year . |
| 4 | But criticism of the package , which will end the barristers ' monopoly right to appear in the higher courts and transfer a huge chunk of the High Court 's caseload to the county courts , was considerably less strident than when the original green paper proposals were debated last April . |
| 5 | The client may then pursue the right to apply to the High Court for an order to have the bill taxed . |
| 6 | Failure to push through the higher taxes would have a serious impact on Labour 's plans to raise extra revenue to pay for improved social benefits , such as higher pensions and child benefit . |
| 7 | These states also complained that Germany was dumping waste in other EC states because of its own inability to deal with the high targets it has set itself under its own laws . |
| 8 | A decade ago its dowdy department stores had more or less been written off in the frantic race to carve up the high street . |
| 9 | When you sat your qualifying exam to go to the high school , er what happened to the people who did n't pass ? |
| 10 | Characteristically he uses the imagery of song to point to the highest kind of contemplative experience of God : The Form unfolds a process of definition which comes full circle back to its beginning so that that can be understood in a new way : the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time . |
| 11 | It maybe that the pipework does not slope — gently away from the vent pipe which can cause air to collect at the highest point of the pipe . |
| 12 | The women there will tell you how all those jobs are defined by low pay in many cases , by low status , by very little opportunity to move into the high grades . |
| 13 | Despite losing so heavily , Edinburgh tried hard to play enterprisingly and in scrum-half Crombie , possess a player with the ability to perform at the highest level . |
| 14 | The emphasis is on the vocabulary rather than on other aspects of language and there is a tendency to focus on the high style . |
| 15 | Not too great a challenge right now , but a development programme to build up confidence , the ability to play at the highest level . |
| 16 | He has not visited the cliff , but questions the Frenchman 's ability to climb at the highest levels . |
| 17 | The most substantial power available to the DTI , in the short term , is the ability to petition in the High Court for the company to be wound up . |
| 18 | And the chairman added : ‘ While we will have to strengthen the squad to compete at the higher level , we are certainly not looking for a lot of new players . |
| 19 | Cows to be milked twice a day , every day , water to be carried to all the cattle , fodder to drag to the high pastures , hay to be cut if the weather was benevolent , dry stone walls to be repaired after the ravages of winter , cows to be calved and ewes to be lambed ( usually in the middle of the night ) , horses to harness , drains to be dug … the list is endless . |
| 20 | In the next Chapter , for example , it is shown that the system requires a large forcing resistance to operate at the highest speeds and in most cases the total phase resistance is then much greater than the optimum for electromagnetic damping . |
| 21 | They booked into a guesthouse on the far side of Warminster , and they had time to get into the High Street before the shops closed to buy Erlich a pair of wellington boots , and a rainproof coat that was n't so City , and a hat . |