Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] the high [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the way , you were quite right about the higher price — dedicated gamesplayers do n't mind paying that little extra , especially for that whole lot more . |
| 2 | It would be impracticable and undesirable for the High Court of Justice to embark upon an inquiry concerning the effect or the effectiveness of the internal procedures in the High Court of Parliament or an inquiry whether in any particular case those procedures were effectively followed . |
| 3 | ‘ It was all cooked together , Inspector , but that for the high table was placed there , ’ Auguste explained , pointing to a corner table , ‘ and the rest was carried into the other kitchen , which is usually used for the preparation of food and storage . |
| 4 | Hund 's Rules will usually give the ground term correctly , but they are less reliable for the higher energy states . |
| 5 | We advise this as the higher limit . |
| 6 | His 25 League goals in 1960–61 put him as runner-up to Johnny Byrne in that promotion season and he remains only behind Byrne 's figure of 30 for the highest number of strikes in a post-war League season of up to 46 games . |
| 7 | Although the interaction is again not significant the differences between exemplars are more marked for the high risk junctions than the low risk ones . |
| 8 | From Figures 7.2 and 7.3 it is clear that there is indeed more risk-related information at the high risk junctions and this is more marked for the high risk exemplars than the low risk ones . |
| 9 | Regarding section 42 , it was felt that recent moves by the Fair Employment Commission to challenge this through the High Court will have an effect , if only to force the government to justify its use of this section . |
| 10 | The advantage is that the kite itself is free of the high frequency vibrations which occur naturally in all kite flying lines ; but a fast shutter speed takes care of this problem in most instances . |
| 11 | I am sorry to say this , but there would appear to have been a number of houses in recent times , some of the highest pedigree , which have tended to take a competitive attitude towards each other and have not been above ‘ showing off ’ to guests a butler 's mastery of such trivial accomplishments . |
| 12 | Items on change , and those involving a number of articles costing £x.99 yielded some of the highest success rates obtained in the tests used in the project . |
| 13 | They currently pay some of the highest water charges in the country . |
| 14 | It has created 1,900 jobs but during the same period over 800 existing jobs have been lost in an area which lies at the heart of three parliamentary constituencies with some of the highest unemployment rates in Britain . |
| 15 | The proposal has already provoked widespread anger in the province , which has some of the highest fuel bills in the UK . |
| 16 | Some of the highest Christmas trees in Britain were supplied by CCG at the KG Ethylene Project in Grangemouth , including the one pictured . |
| 17 | Nautor is famous for producing some of the highest quality fibreglass yachts in the world . |
| 18 | The County Council 's own environmental consultants reported that outer northern routes passed through a mixture of urban fringe landscape north of Harrogate , and some of the highest quality countryside around the two towns , along the Nidd Gorge . |
| 19 | Some of the highest property prices anywhere are in fume-ridden Manhattan and in cleaner but nevertheless congested central Tokyo . |
| 20 | Counties with some of the highest growth rates up to 1978 were in the rural extremities of southern England , Wales , and Scotland , a most unusual situation for the twentieth century . |
| 21 | Most of these people are packed into the small area of flat land ; the coastal strip — running from the Kanto plain round Tokyo to Nagoya and then through to the Kansai plain , with its cities of Osaka , Kyoto and Kobe — has some of the highest population densities in the world . |
| 22 | The charge to such consumers did , of course , reflect some of the higher cost of supplying small quantities of electricity . |
| 23 | Therefore some of the higher activity of Ca 2 + observed in gall bladder bile from patients with gall stone disease may be caused by the lower pH . |
| 24 | Drilling carried out to prove an underlying granite cusp at shallow ( < 500 m ) depth was unsuccessful and some of the higher grade intersections of vein mineralisation , up to 11 m at 1 per cent Sn , contained refractory tin silicates ( MRP 48 ; MEG 73 and 198 ) . |
| 25 | Poll Tax , the Environment , the fate of the health service and the ITV licences sale will be some of the high profile issues on the agenda . |
| 26 | The company later withdrew this from the high street stores and from its production schedule , following a large number of complaints from Christian individuals and groups . |
| 27 | It is possible , in certain circumstances , again if leave is obtained , to appeal direct from the High Court to the House of Lords , leapfrogging the Court of Appeal . |
| 28 | But even there , working-class women are rare in graduate psychology , and are particularly few in the higher status institutions from which most eminent psychologists come . |
| 29 | I might be able to some in er , in the ordinary account and some in the high interest account . |
| 30 | Indeed , ; second , while there are connections between at least some elementary general training and the advanced forms of professional training , and while access to these advanced forms , for those who want it , is still relatively open , the form of division between ‘ artist ’ and ‘ public ’ need not be at all of a damaging kind ; it is often in practice a willing and serious interchange between professionals and those interested in the highest development of these/skills . |