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 | 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 . |
3 | Spring can be wet , especially in the Basque country , and snow may fall in the high mountains even in July . |
4 | 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) ) . |
5 | Snow may linger on the high passes as late as June . |
6 | Claims over £5000 must proceed in the High Court . |
7 | ‘ You should go down the High Street , ’ said Constance . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | We 'll meet by the high altar . ’ |
10 | 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 . |
11 | I 'd wander down the high street , frittering away on whatever took my fancy . |
12 | The Attorney-General may proceed in the High Court for an Order to prevent the local authority carrying out its intended unlawful act . |
13 | We used to go through the high street years before motor cars come out . |
14 | When I come here there was no motor cars , they used to wa hor horses used to go through the high street . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | Mention Czechoslovkia to walkers and most will think of the High Tatras , the well known and majestic mountains in Slovakia . |
18 | My plea is that if the Government want to maintain its environmental quality and ensure that people work it they will consider including the High Weald as an ESA . |
19 | Mr Hanley will go to the High Court this morning in the hope of winning a last-minute judicial review . |
20 | Because of the amount of damages the Branches are hoping for , the case will go to the High Court . |
21 | They suggest that peculiar factors may account for the high levels recorded on a limited number of ground-based instruments . |
22 | ‘ You can get to the high ground this way without going into town again . ’ |