Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] high [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We must also consider the opportunity that some occupations have for deliberately restricting access to the acquisition of the skills needed to do the job , thereby keeping down their distribution amongst the population , and enabling them to claim higher rewards in the market place . |
| 2 | But everyone has high hopes for him . |
| 3 | Anyway , why should n't I expect high standards from them ? |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm not that tall , but I know I look it , because I wear high heels — not to college , but when I go out . |
| 5 | Please do n't tell me to buy children 's shoes as I already do so when I need a flat pair , but I like high heels and am finding it increasingly difficult to buy them . |
| 6 | Since nineteen eighty three the government has reduced financial support by over two billion pound and reduced staff by seventy thousand , resulting in less maintenance and falling safety standards and with , as I said higher fares , but fewer services . |
| 7 | ‘ My dear Inspector , I had high hopes of you . |
| 8 | ‘ There was a time when I had high hopes , ’ he admitted . |
| 9 | I had high hopes after Saturday , but I reckoned without the team destined to be the most unpopular in the Premier League — West Ham . |
| 10 | I had high hopes of us . |
| 11 | Given that the conductor is Rudolf Barshai , this was a disc of which I had high expectations , and the musicians of the Vancouver SO play the score with an admirable combination of restraint and accuracy which provides , in the end , a rather more affecting experience than some of the more histrionic versions one could name . |
| 12 | I have high hopes for it … |
| 13 | I have high hopes for the evening . ’ |
| 14 | I have high hopes that , over a large number of generations , the wild insects will actually cause the evolution , in the computer , of flowers . |
| 15 | ‘ I have high hopes for those two , ’ said the manager today . |
| 16 | I suppose I have high standards but some others are as good as me . |
| 17 | These differences in land values ( which mean higher rents or higher prices for land or houses ) provide the mechanism by which different groups are distributed throughout the urban area , often in the form of circles radiating out from the centre . |
| 18 | As we shall see , those cemeteries which display high quantities of such imports are also those where potential leaders are to be identified . |
| 19 | advertising of particular products which bring high profits |
| 20 | It would bring fewer gains to the likes of water companies , which suffer high rates of effective taxation through ACT because capital allowances reduce their mainstream tax bills . |
| 21 | I merely note that other European countries have found an alternative way of living which , as it happens , for whatever reason , has resulted in their enjoying higher standards of living than on the whole do EEC members . |
| 22 | For this reason , the bones of road runners — which undergo high levels of stress — tend to be denser than less active people . |
| 23 | Sequence comparisons between the hsdS genes of the Eco K , B and D systems revealed two extensive variable regions of about 450-bp in length and two other regions , 100-bp in the centre and 250-bp at the distal end , which show high degrees of conservation . |
| 24 | Dot-density diagrams are still the most common method of portraying results because features such as walls , which give high readings , show up as dark lines . |
| 25 | We will make houses which meet high standards of energy efficiency exempt from the first £1000 of stamp duty when they are sold . |
| 26 | He owned some dozen oils , twenty or so large drawings , and fifty-five vignettes , all of which fetched high prices at sales from the collection during his lifetime and after his death . |
| 27 | There are also prospects of further promotion to posts which attract higher salaries . |
| 28 | The readiness of Scots to migrate at this period has prompted suggestions that there were forces inherent in Scottish society which encouraged high levels of mobility and a propensity to migrate , but this has yet to be shown . |
| 29 | If the visual cortex of a monkey is exposed to a stain that highlights the enzyme cytochrome oxidase it is possible to identify densely labelled blobs , which indicate high concentrations of the enzyme , in the upper layers of the visual cortex ( Livingstone and Hubel 1984 ) . |
| 30 | And when it became clear that the Earl would have no sons , it became a marriage which aroused high expectations — expectations which were disappointed when the King took Cornwall for himself . |