Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] the high [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Bill Loveluck-Edwards , voted best-dressed solicitor in town two years ago , failed to meet the high standards required by the bench in Bridgend , Mid Glamorgan . |
| 2 | The whole country would like to know at what level of income they intend to increase the higher rate of tax . |
| 3 | The case is expected to go the High Court some time next year . |
| 4 | If Mr. Goldsmith would care to accept the invitation — clearly written in the bottom left-hand corner of our charts — to contact us , I would gladly explain to him in detail how we tackle the very complex task of chart production , and in particular how we go to the most extraordinary lengths to try to meet the highest standards of clarity and accuracy demanded by the wide range of our customers — when flying in UK ( not USA ) airspace . |
| 5 | Naturally you expect to find the highest quality construction in the world in a Mercedes , but the 500SL we tested had numerous faults that we thought ‘ undermined Mercedes ' quality image and appearance ’ . |
| 6 | However , George Earl 's oil painting ‘ St Bernards in a snow drift ’ , ( above ) is expected to attract the highest bid . |
| 7 | In 1964 , although widely expected to reach the higher echelons of the Army , Winchester retired at his own request and settled in Kenya , where he kept dairy cattle on a farm outside Nairobi . |
| 8 | Faced with this information , the politicians can be expected to choose the higher level of output indicated by the new equation of demand with marginal cost . |
| 9 | SCOTVEC 's certification arrangements allow for a framework of awards designed to combine the high degree of flexibility contained in a modular system with the clarity and ease of recognition of separately certificated Group Awards for particular programmes of modules . |
| 10 | Just eleven players since 1905 have appeared in Palace colours more often than Vince but , in reviewing his career with us , one is left with the feeling that , while it promised to climb the highest peaks of success , it in fact merely reached the approaches . |
| 11 | Approved Training Practices are monitored by the Association on a five-year cycle and are required to comply with guidelines designed to ensure the high standards of certified accountants in public practice and maintain the flexibility of the ACCA qualification . |
| 12 | Undoubtedly , as a general rule , the seller wants to get the highest price for his property , and the purchaser wishes to give the lowest , and in that sense it may be said that an expected difference between the parties is to be implied in every case , but unless a difference has actually arisen , it does not appear to me to be an " arbitration " . |
| 13 | In addition , the Jordanians are expected to complete the high dam at Maquarin this year . |
| 14 | Now okay , I know what you mean by saying yes , you want to get the higher price everywhere . |
| 15 | Council leaders want to bestow the highest honour they can in recognition of Clough 's achievements with Nottingham Forest . |
| 16 | Within the specialist facilities for a sport priority is given to projects which are expected to produce the highest level of participants . |
| 17 | The audiences wore mainly young , but the older people seemed to find the high spirits around them infectious , for they were grinning and smiling , amused , but not contemptuous . |
| 18 | Then one could argue for stable long-term subsidies to be granted to offset the higher transport costs , recognising that the higher resource cost of delivering the commodities to their consumers should be borne by the state which would otherwise have to bear the cost of unemployment ( and which is also in a position to take account of the ‘ social cost ’ to the community involved ) . |
| 19 | The availability of the computer means that spectrum manipulation , storage and retrieval for replotting or comparison with standards are all easy , and this may be felt to justify the higher cost of interferometers . |
| 20 | Among the countries listed , the UK is seen to have the highest percentage . |
| 21 | The statement was also allegedly intended to calm the high level of irritation and dissatisfaction existing in the ranks . |
| 22 | Everybody , now you 've also got to accept the high percentage of having nay got a clue , eh what they 're doing , even after a week or a couple of weeks and it should n't er be here , but if you get somebody , nice er Michelle or Cathy , eh , or eh Adel |
| 23 | For the current project a corpus is used to train the higher level modules ( i.e. lexical , syntactic and semantic ) with information about the behaviour of text . |
| 24 | JD says that for some reason the rails also seem to amplify the high frequencies , but ca n't say why . |
| 25 | Banana cockroaches , scorpions and black widows seem to generate the highest media interest , but it is undoubtedly the ticks , beetles and flies which have more significance for health and agricultural concerns . |
| 26 | Both use circulating wires to cut smooth faces in the early Carboniferous limestone , and whereas the first was used to build the high monument to the Grande Armee that overlooks Boulogne ( with Napoleon at the top firmly turning his back on England ) , the Indiana quarry produced the stone facings for the Empire State Building in New York . |
| 27 | In an appendix he adverts to an article in which an alternative view was proposed ; however , he addresses none of the very real objections to the ‘ high pitch ’ theory evinced there , not least the demonstrable nonexistence of the over-age ‘ super-trebles ’ needed to sing the highest voice . |
| 28 | Practically everyone gets roped into ‘ bowling ’ at one time or another but the family , and , always seem to maintain the highest profile on the alley . |
| 29 | The duration of such responses would , however , be too great to allow the rapid succession of contractions needed to maintain the high frequency of the wing beat in many efficient flyers . |
| 30 | This would generate the extra revenue needed to pay the higher cost of replacing nuclear energy with biomass , compared to replacing it with fossil fuels . |