Example sentences of "was [vb pp] at [art] high [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus violence was sustained at a high level by American capitals ‘ first great offensive against labor ’ from the late-nineteenth century to the 1920s . |
| 2 | He was educated at the High School , Hampstead ; Cumming 's College , outside Boulogne ; Westcliff College , Ramsgate ; and Craven College , Highgate . |
| 3 | A few seconds later a second flock was seen at a higher level and directly in the aircraft 's flight path . |
| 4 | The allocation was decided at the highest level of government , and radio broadcasting had long been low on the list of priorities . |
| 5 | Thorold Mackie was alleged at the High Court in Edinburgh to have used information obtained from a company chairman about an impending profits warning . |
| 6 | The only disturbance to the peace of this natural sanctuary occurred 120 years ago when a spectacular railway was laid at a high level across the head of the valley ; this apart , Dentdale today is very much as it was three centuries ago , happily free from modern developments and well content to remain so . |
| 7 | The applicant John Cox was involved at the highest level in both CND and the Communist Party of Great Britain , both in the period of Communist domination ’ and in the late 1970s when CND was growing . |
| 8 | ‘ The decision to meet Sakharov 's demand and save his life was taken at the highest level , evidently at a meeting of the politbureau . |
| 9 | Judgment was reserved at the High Court in London yesterday on a claim by Mr Christopher Merlin , aged 48 , and his wife , Christine , of Broughton-in-Furness , Cumbria , that their former home was contaminated with plutonimum dust from the Sellafield plant . |
| 10 | Judgment was reserved at the High Court in London yesterday on a claim by Mr Christopher Merlin , aged 48 , and his wife , Christine , of Broughton-in-Furness , Cumbria , who claim their former home was contaminated with plutonimum dust from the Sellafield plant . |
| 11 | In the event , as we have seen , the Layfield Report was published at the high point of the importance of government grants as a proportion of local income . |