Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] a high [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ponty skipper Nigel Bezani was first to go for a high tackle in which he elbowed centre John Apsee , but the Bridgend man admitted : ‘ I was surprised he was sent off . ’ |
| 2 | The different methods of communicating the USP of different types of product are termed communication strata ; a product with a simple USP can be communicated through a low communication stratum , whereas a product with a complex USP can best be communicated through a high communication stratum . |
| 3 | The TV companies that own ITN are also clamouring for a higher bid . |
| 4 | The latest published figures on the origins of TB infection in confirmed herd breakdowns in Great Britain show that south-west England has a much higher incidence of breakdowns and badgers account for a high proportion of them . |
| 5 | However , the bulk of LDCs have neither oil resources to export nor a diversified manufacturing base , and it is these countries that account for a high proportion of the world 's poor . |
| 6 | It is noteworthy that major word classes ( " content words " ) account for a high percentage of the total number of words ( 58 per cent , as compared with 52 per cent in the Conrad passage , and 47 per cent in the James passage ) . |
| 7 | All these conditions make for a higher incidence of illness among working-class than middle-class babies . |
| 8 | The brief given to the three craftworkers approached this year emphasised that what they produce must qualify as a high quality art object in its own right , preferably of a contemporary nature , and suitable to be displayed in the offices or boardrooms of this years ABSA award winners . |
| 9 | Depicted as a High Priest and son of the ‘ King of Kings … clad in a robe sprinkled with blood ’ , Christ |
| 10 | In Labour 's ranks Marjorie Mowlam , the shadow citizen 's charter minister , is tipped for a higher profile job . |
| 11 | Part of a two-shoe GRID package launched in the UK late last year , the GRID 9000 is designed as a high mileage stability shoe with exceptional cushioning . |
| 12 | The 720 IQ runs at 1,200 by 600 and is designed as a high throughput production printer . |
| 13 | In South Wales the gastric cancer registration rates in miners are higher than in England , and it has been suggested that coal miners in urban areas should be considered as a high risk group suitable to be screened for the disease by the instigation of dyspepsia clinics . |
| 14 | The hulking headquarters of the Office for National Security , which has branches across the country , stands behind a high wall , cameras on its roof trained on the streets all around . |
| 15 | " A lower preference can not count against a higher preference " , say the pundits . |
| 16 | In political elections , however , candidates are not just persons , they stand for parties , and in political terms a lower preference can count against a higher preference in some circumstances . |
| 17 | The slot was n't occupied with a high speed video or IDE host adaptor , although Western Systems will offer a VL Bus video card in the near future . |
| 18 | One of them shaped like a mobile telephone crashed into a high voltage power line cutting off 500 homes . |
| 19 | It too can no longer be presented in a teleological form as an account of a historical process which begins with primitive ‘ stateless ’ societies , then passes through a definite sequence of class societies in which the state comes into existence and develops , and concludes with a higher form of communal society which is again ‘ stateless ’ . |
| 20 | Thus the chief safeguard against brittle failure lies in a high work of fracture . |
| 21 | At last Finnan stopped before a high stone house that had as its sign a serpent twisted round a staff . |
| 22 | Production workers are likely to be more concerned with the task and to work in a high structure organization . |
| 23 | It seemed to be full of alcoves and angles and small grouped areas of being , though the room itself was a plain rectangle : fish swam in a high globe , a monstrously enlarged goldfish bowl on top of a bookcase , and flowers and foliage stood on small pedestals here and there . |
| 24 | The arguments in favour of the provision of an outer bypass for Edinburgh , designed to a high standard , are so overwhelming that Lothian Regional Council is maintaining a continuing construction programme aimed at completion of the entire bypass by 1990 . |
| 25 | Molly moved to a high window someone had left open , fearing that the baby , to escape its pursuing sisters , might leap out . |
| 26 | It is committed to a high tax policy , high borrowing and high spending , which in the past have led to pain , suffering , misery and job losses . |
| 27 | Cripps 's message was clear : the living conditions of many gypsies was scandalous , and no improvement in the slow rate of progress could be expected without a high level of commitment by central government . |
| 28 | The use just discussed bears a relation to the occurrence of the bare infinitive after the expressions rather than and sooner than : ( 32 ) He paid the fine rather than appeal to a higher court . |
| 29 | This negative element can be felt in ( 32 ) above in the fact that this sentence implies that he did not appeal to a higher court even though he could have . |
| 30 | IAAF spokeswoman Jayne Pearce today confirmed that the federation did not accept the Ohio court decision and would appeal to a higher court in Cincinnati . |