Example sentences of "have been [vb pp] [prep] a high " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it could be argued that she has been placed in a high turn-over establishment because she possesses an authoritarian style of leadership . |
| 2 | Cheltenham has been hit by a High Court ruling originally intended for another council in the northeast . |
| 3 | The latest production to have commenced shooting in Dublin is ‘ Into The West ’ , the story of a re-housed gypsy who refuses to be parted from his horse — despite the fact that he has been moved to a high rise block . |
| 4 | Since the interwar period , when quota sampling was first developed in the United States , it has been refined to a high art by commercial research organisations in many countries . |
| 5 | But if the tentative claims for attention of deep , albeit hazy , personal beliefs are consistently ignored , clarity has been bought at a high price : damage to integrity and the loss of real satisfaction . |
| 6 | In cases where both men and women have been regularly exposed to it at work , nitrous oxide has been linked to a high rate of miscarriages . |
| 7 | Like other Third World countries its quest for World Bank-induced export earnings through cash crops has been purchased at a high price with no apparent significant complementarity in food crops . |
| 8 | A DARLINGTON solicitor is claiming a test case has been forged following a High Court ruling that a North-East farmer who challenged the occupation of a three-year Ministry Licence is a protected tenant and his term of possession is not restricted by Ministry approval . |
| 9 | Listeria bacteria has been found in a high percentage of chilled foods throughout East Anglia . |
| 10 | Promotion and sales may not have been seen as a high status activity deserving of such high level management attention . |
| 11 | Judge Sirica 's doubts were confirmed when McCord admitted in March that the defendants had lied at the trial , that they had received payments of over $200 000 to keep quiet and that this had been done from a high level in the White House . |
| 12 | And while her heart swelled — could he be saying that he thought she was lovely ? — a few seconds later he was steering the Mercedes around a bend and was then at once driving to the other side of the road where a kind of lay-by had been cut into a high mass of rock . |
| 13 | When they 've been promoted to a high ranking job . |
| 14 | As both hon. Members will have in mind , European Community monitors are now in place who have been exposed to a high degree of personal risk . |
| 15 | But such matters are relative : the major currencies outside the EMS have been characterized by a high degree of exchange rate volatility , and the proper comparison is to consider the effect on intra-community exchange rates without the operation of the EMS . |
| 16 | Additionally , English translations of Deutsches Institut fur Normung ( DIN ) Standards , and International Organization for Standardization ( ISO ) Standards have been identified as a high priority if and when more funds become available . |