Example sentences of "[verb] at the high [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 He was educated at the High School , Hampstead ; Cumming 's College , outside Boulogne ; Westcliff College , Ramsgate ; and Craven College , Highgate .
2 Popular with high earners because tax relief can be claimed at the highest rate , the pension loan also allows borrowers to claim tax relief on their pension contributions .
3 NINE of 13 drug charges against a former tyre depot manager were dropped at the High Court in Aberdeen yesterday .
4 To cover this range of possibilities we concentrate on four DEMs : a 10 7 K isothermal one resulting in the hardest spectrum ; a solar flare-like DEM taken from ref.21 ; the solar active region DEM of ref.22 , modified at the highest temperature to decrease to zero above 10 7 K ; and an isothermal DEM at 10 6 K resulting in a very soft spectrum .
5 There is also evidence that , contrary to findings in volunteers , activated charcoal will increase the elimination of salicylates , possibly because drug metabolising enzyme systems are fully saturated at the higher plasma concentrations attained in cases of acute poisoning .
6 11 , has been a source of problems which perhaps have yet to be resolved at the highest level .
7 A UN military observer , Colonel Walter van Dijk , who was with the convoy when it was stopped at a police and army barricade in Serbia yesterday , said the fate of the convoy had been ‘ resolved at the highest level ’ .
8 The wall can be found behind the Beran Filling Station , which lies at the highest point of the Bangor on Llanberis road ( B4547 ) , about 200 metres from the Deiniolen turn-off .
9 It starts at the highest office in the country — and works right through to the youngest , newest , employee .
10 The same fate befell the likes of Alan Hudson , Rodney Marsh , Tony Currie and Charlie George — all of whom were discarded even before their qualities were allowed to flourish at the highest level .
11 ‘ I have n't looked at the high scoring yet but there are no surprises at what you are going to get out there . ’
12 Precisely this eventuality had been considered at the highest level in the days just before the war ended .
13 The allocation was decided at the highest level of government , and radio broadcasting had long been low on the list of priorities .
14 Oil will be taxed at the highest rate , adding about US$3.50 to the cost of a barrel of oil , with the aim of discouraging dependence on imported oil .
15 ‘ But I 've made it with United and now I want the chance to show what I can do at the highest level of all . ’
16 Yet it is this policy making , often particularly that which occurs at the highest level , that receives very much more attention .
17 At six in the morning the descent party arrives at the High Force Hotel .
18 But in an announcement made at the High Court in London it 's agreed to pay compensation on the basis of 85 percent liability .
19 A solar heating system consists of three main components : the solar panel , a feed-and-expansion cistern ( which must be positioned at the highest point of the system ) and the solar cylinder .
20 My attention had been so far away and the dog had timed his jump to a split second so that his bark came at the highest point , his teeth only inches from my face .
21 The notes that have been prepared for us go over er , rather briefly the legal systems in our land , and er , even references made to France , which has a slightly different legal system , which may be a bit better than ours and so that , in the notes , we not only look at the High Court , the High Court , the Criminal Court , the County Court er er , and realise what an important part of legal proceedings er , these courts fair , as well of course , as the largest courts of all , , the Magistrate 's Court .
22 Look at the high street favourites of five years ago and ask how well they 're doing now : in the nineties we could be saying bye-bye Next and cheerio Habitat .
23 What was called a cart load of peat was being sold at the high price of 2/6 .
24 LIBEL DAMAGES FOR MP 'S WIDOW An elderly London widow agreed at the High Court today to accept substantial undislosed damages for a Sunday Times article alleging her twin children were the result of an affair with the father of Jacqueline Kennedy-Onassis .
25 Through our experience and knowledge derived from sales in the area we are able to ensure that you have the greatest chance of selling at the highest figure .
26 At an earlier hearing , defence solicitor Colin Nott failed in a bid to have the ban lifted , but successfully appealed at the High Court the next day to have the bail condition lifted so his client could see the baby under supervision .
27 On surfacing , the rate again speeds up , generally remaining at the higher level until the carbon dioxide content of the exhaled air has returned to normal — usually in a few seconds .
28 Both Detective Sergeant Window and PC Hall are brave men who deserve to be commended at the highest level .
29 When officers arrived at the High Row , a large group of anti-fascist campaigners had arrived and were chanting slogans at the BNP .
30 Thorold Mackie was alleged at the High Court in Edinburgh to have used information obtained from a company chairman about an impending profits warning .
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