Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] high [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE father of a two-year-old boy suffering from a rare genetic disorder must wait to learn whether he has won his High Court battle over the controversial closure of a London hospital 's bone marrow transplant unit . |
| 2 | The Zimbabwean government has sustained its high level of educational spending in the face of a growing debt burden , the economic burden of the war in Mozambique and the cost of trade routes through South Africa . |
| 3 | Paul Franklin was sound , and Angela Cartwright confessed that she too had long thought it high time Grunte gave up . |
| 4 | ‘ We 'll be in touch , ’ he said , and Claudia could have stamped her high heel on his foot . |
| 5 | From Washington the British ambassador , Sir Oliver Franks , reported that in Korea the American government and people had ‘ instinctively followed their high destiny in the world ’ . |
| 6 | Salisbury retired to Hatfield where he died 3 December 1668 , but not before Charles II had appointed him high steward of St Albans in 1663 . |
| 7 | Elwood lived with his parents on Ross Street West , and I remember going to his house one day in late June when he had just completed his high school training to offer him a job at CHAB . |
| 8 | Bishop Casey was an obvious choice , given his high profile . |
| 9 | This approach was carried to its furthest extreme by the embryologist E.W. MacBride , who argued that all the different invertebrate types were degenerate offshoots from various points in the main line of vertebrate progress : ‘ It is therefore broadly speaking true ’ , he wrote , ‘ that the Invertebrates collectively represent those branches of the Vertebrate stock which , at various times , have deserted their high vocation and fallen into lowlier habits of life . ’ |
| 10 | ACONSERVATION group has lost its High Court fight to save eight listed buildings in the City of London which are to be demolished by the property developer , Mr Peter Palumbo . |
| 11 | Each quarter every branch within Clover Leaf send out up to 200 surveys to customers , and Odiham have maintained their high scoring . |
| 12 | The producer Mark Brown and engineer Antony Howell have maintained their high standards of presentation on this Hyperion disc , combining a marvellously warm ambience with exceptional clarity of tone , simultaneously reinforcing the fine blend and the articulation of the instruments . |
| 13 | Bell Labs spin-out Programmed Logic Corp , Somerfield , New Jersey , has released its High Performance File System ( HPFS ) for Intel Corp machines running Unix SVR4 from Consensys Inc , Dell Computer Corp , Esix Computer Inc , Microport Inc and UHC Inc as well as Univel Inc 's UnixWare . |
| 14 | Aachen-based Parsytec GmbH has launched its high performance Transputer-based Imaging system for use in robotics , medical imaging , process control and industrial inspection . |
| 15 | Even the RP ‘ broad ’ [ a ] ( as in path , dance ) seems to have acquired its high evaluation only recently : Mugglestone ( 1989 ) cites evidence from the nineteenth century to the effect that it was stigmatized as a vulgarism by some commentators : it looks as though it may have been ‘ borrowed ’ from a low-status dialect ( such as ‘ Cockney ’ ) . |