Example sentences of "[vb past] up a high " in BNC.
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| 1 | Profits suffered as loan demand fell , and the government soaked up a high proportion of personal savings to fund the war effort . |
| 2 | This was often the case with the aged who made up a high proportion of workhouse residents . |
| 3 | Rate support and local authority influence was expected to improve the often low standards of denominational schools , which made up a high proportion of existing elementary schools . |
| 4 | Not surprisingly , due to the higher incidence of physical illness among elderly people , nurses without specialist mental health qualification made up a high proportion of the complement of staff |
| 5 | In both cases the artisans who made up a high proportion of the arrested do not appear in the rate-books , suggesting that they were not among those tradesmen who could be considered part of the " middling sort " . |
| 6 | He pulled up a high stool and stood , his bottom propped on the stool , which he used like a shooting stick , his painting posture for these latter days . |
| 7 | On publication of the Scottish Sports Council 's report into school-aged sport ‘ Laying the Foundations ’ , Michael Forsyth MP , Scottish Office Minister for Sport , requested that Council Chairman Professor Raymond Miquel set up a high level enquiry group to examine the problems of school-aged team sport , and to consider what positive initiatives were needed to assist with the development of team-based sport in Scotland . |