Example sentences of "[det] [noun sg] [to-vb] the high [noun] " in BNC.

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1 So again , credit transfer would allow this student to gain the higher award on the completion of six more credits .
2 Despite these kinds of market issues , Microsoft is unlikely to allow developers to add value by tinkering with NT operating system code , ‘ but it may have to change this model to win the high end , ’ warns Schuster .
3 It was hoped in this way to reduce the high refusal rate which is a hazard in sociolinguistic surveys , and indeed the method seemed in general to be successful in this respect ; altogether , out of 40 addresses visited , only 8 refusals were recorded .
4 Ministers are pinning their hopes on a big spending Christmas this year to give the High Street and struggling businesses a boost .
5 Nothing decided in the present case is intended in the least degree to diminish the high importance rightly recognised to attach to the concept of the implied undertaking as a necessary way of underpinning the integrity of the discovery process ( post , p. 926F ) .
6 Certainly nothing that we decide in the present case is intended in the least degree to diminish the high importance rightly recognised to attach to the concept of the implied undertaking as a necessary way of underpinning the integrity of the discovery process .
7 Does my right hon. Friend agree that any proposal to raise the higher rate of income tax , as advocated by the Opposition , would be damaging for morale and prosperity , because such a move would not only destroy the will to work but drive some of our best brains out of the country ?
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