Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [prep] the high [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The decrease in mortality in the Minnessota study may relate to the high percentage of colonoscopies performed rather than the faecal occult blood testing per se and if so , lends support to the concept of endocsopic screening as proposed by Atkin . |
| 2 | All these levels may be seen as controlled by the relationship of the people involved in the discourse , which we may regard as the highest level . |
| 3 | Ramsey confessed that they had done a lot of harm and ought to apologize but said that the best of them were trying to , and that the Church of England ought to apologize to the high churchmen for the way in which it sometimes treated them . |
| 4 | Spring can be wet , especially in the Basque country , and snow may fall in the high mountains even in July . |
| 5 | Any party to proceedings may appeal to the High Court against a magistrates ' court decision to make or refuse to make an order under the Children Act ( s94(1) ) . |
| 6 | Snow may linger on the high passes as late as June . |
| 7 | ( Employees may opt for the higher quote but can expect to pay the difference themselves . ) |
| 8 | If causing death is to be regarded as the most serious harm that can be inflicted , it would seem to follow that the most blameworthy form of homicide should result in the highest sentences imposed by the courts . |
| 9 | The Aborigines who were with me , and of whom I must speak in the highest praise , for the readiness with which they rendered me their assistance , affirmed , upon learning the nature of my pursuits , that they had come to meet me . ’ |
| 10 | This need not be an existing identifier but , as the list is presented in descending numerical order , it should approximate to the highest identifier required . |
| 11 | This need not be an existing identifier but , as the list is presented in descending numerical order , it should approximate to the highest identifier required . |
| 12 | This need not be an existing identifier but , as the list is presented in descending numerical order , it should approximate to the highest identifier required . |
| 13 | This need not be an existing identifier but , as the list is presented in descending numerical order , it should approximate to the highest identifier required . |
| 14 | This need not be an existing identifier but , as the list is presented in descending numerical order , it should approximate to the highest identifier required . |
| 15 | Thus , although SS continues to show the labour supply curve in terms of the after-tax wage , we must draw in the higher schedule SS ' ; to show the supply of labour in terms of the gross or pre-tax wage . |
| 16 | Claims over £5000 must proceed in the High Court . |
| 17 | For any news agency to survive and to make its name among the mass media , which constitute its major clients , it must adhere to the highest ideals of journalistic accuracy and objectivity . |
| 18 | For any news agency to survive and to make its name among the mass media , which constitute its major clients , it must adhere to the highest ideals of journalistic accuracy and objectivity . |
| 19 | ‘ You should go down the High Street , ’ said Constance . |
| 20 | The dancing man was standing out in the middle of the road as though unaware of the scarlet double-decker which might trundle down the High Street at any moment to knock him down . |
| 21 | We 'll meet by the high altar . ’ |
| 22 | I called the meeting in New York during our chairmanship of the Security Council so that the council could meet at the highest level to reaffirm and develop its commitment to peacekeeping and peacemaking . |
| 23 | Soaked with it and languid from the heat , with the scent of salt and sand still heavy in my nose , I asked if we could stop at the high slope of grass off Elderberry Road . |
| 24 | Paradoxically , though , Roxburgh observed that Jess , who he favourably compared with a young Kenny Dalglish , had ‘ become an internationalist ’ at Ibrox by proving he could function at the highest level . |
| 25 | I 'd wander down the high street , frittering away on whatever took my fancy . |
| 26 | The Attorney-General may proceed in the High Court for an Order to prevent the local authority carrying out its intended unlawful act . |
| 27 | We used to go through the high street years before motor cars come out . |
| 28 | When I come here there was no motor cars , they used to wa hor horses used to go through the high street . |
| 29 | And er we used to go on the High Road together , shopping together , And perhaps Sunday afternoons she 'd say , Oh come on Ada let's have a ride down Nottingham . |
| 30 | In Shetland a number of pairs of the white-tailed sea-eagle used to nest in the high cliffs , but in the late nineteenth century they went into a decline and the last pair nested in 1914 . |