Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [verb] a high [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ta no I do n't like them , cos I 've got a high instep look , here I 'll , I 'll , it 'll cut me you see |
| 2 | Stare me straight in the teeth And I 'm sure you 'll agree I 've got a high class pedigree I do n't gie' a monkey 's for the world and its wife It 's a dog 's life ! |
| 3 | ‘ Each year I have noticed a higher standard of living ’ , the bishop wrote in his eulogy of this ‘ brave man ’ , whose ‘ exceedingly generous ’ treatment of the churches in Romania was something of which ‘ we in Britain might well be envious ’ . |
| 4 | Quite , and I I have got a high proportion of of staff and you ha you will have a a low one would you |
| 5 | There is no doubt she feels that she has paid a high price for her royal life and looks forward to the day when she can spend a weekend in Paris or , as she says , ‘ I can run along a beach without a policeman following me ’ . |
| 6 | She has issued a High Court writ against the man who guided her career until earlier this year when a family fued drove them apart . |
| 7 | So let's just recap on the ones you 've done this morning , you 've done a high sling yes |
| 8 | I in , in the north you 've got a higher proportion of owner-occupiers and |
| 9 | Yeah because I mean if there , if you 've got a high instep it still do n't matter because you only widen your laces do n't you ? |
| 10 | We 've worked hard to develop inter-directory and inter-agency working , we 've trained a high proportion of the staff and we are recognising that re- organising the directorate to provide specialist children 's service . |
| 11 | On food control , the level of food hygiene inspections at seven hundred and thirty we 've achieved by buying in consultants to do some work for us in our priority area , and we 're were able to do that with Derek Welk 's retirement , leaving us with some unspent staff , and so we 've achieved a higher figure there than we expected we would do . |
| 12 | It 's inevitably , if we 've got a high value added per employee , |
| 13 | The readership survey confirmed our belief that we had created a high quality magazine , with many readers saying they found it attractive , colourful and easy to read . |
| 14 | We have maintained a high level of marketing activity in the traditional areas of our work with the result that we brought in a greater value of tender enquiries in 1992 than we did in the previous year , and this we achieved against the backcloth of a continually reducing market . |
| 15 | Thus we have shown a high frequency of gastrointestinal symptoms including diarrhoea and weight loss in non-infected patients which was not consistently increased in patients harbouring specific infective agents . |
| 16 | In the first comprehensive study of intestinal function in patients with diarrhoea caused by chronic radiation enteritis , we have shown a high prevalence of abnormalities in intestinal transit and absorption . |
| 17 | ‘ We are both pleased I 've done so well — we have got a high standard of living , better than we expected . ’ |
| 18 | Unlike Payne et al , we have found a high frequency of AIDS related sclerosing cholangitis in AIDS patients with substantially raised serum alkaline phosphatase . |
| 19 | We urge the Government to make swift progress with this issue , for there have already been too many years of procrastination during which we have paid a high price in terms of serious and irreversible environmental damage . |
| 20 | The airline 's commercial director , Mike Bathgate , said : ‘ This is a leisure and business link and we have enjoyed a high level of enquiries since we announced our intention to launch services from Stansted . ’ |
| 21 | I 've gone out with people just because they 've got a high status in their job . |
| 22 | In their most unpopular form the Corn Laws dated from 1815 when they had imposed a high tariff on imported corn to protect home-grown corn in freak economic conditions . |
| 23 | They have enjoyed a higher level of formal education than their older colleagues , some of them possessing degrees in chemistry or biology from universities or polytechnics . |
| 24 | Well , they ca n't look , they do n't but what according to and therefore they have to throw a high percentage of the results , |
| 25 | He says : ‘ Although Michael Fallon is in an extremely vulnerable seat , he has adopted a high profile in the constituency . |
| 26 | And up until now , it has pumped a high level of turnover back into just such research and development — out of £820,000 sales for the fiscal year ending March 1992 , some £213,000 went on this activity , while for the year ending March 1993 , the figure was more like £414,000 , out of total revenues of only £922,000 . |
| 27 | For a given outlay of local currency it has ensured a higher value of imports than would have been available under a market valuation of the currency . |
| 28 | In September of that year , he had taken a high line with Henry VIII , letting him trundle up to York only to gaze north at an empty road , for James , probably at the persuasion of his council , failed to keep his appointment with the English king . |
| 29 | Well it 's got a higher voltage . |
| 30 | Okay it 's only a small pipe , it 's got a high resistance , it does n't let much through , but it does let some more through . |