Example sentences of "mark the high " in BNC.

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1 Traditional Ibicenco houses cluster around a fascinating 16th century church , marking the highest point of the village .
2 Nobody has ever taken the trouble to build a cairn on the bare top but the Ordnance surveyors have erected a triangulation column to mark the highest point at 2058 feet .
3 The 1987 election marked the high noon of the government of Margaret Thatcher .
4 Russia 's success against the Austrians on the southern front marked the high point of her advance , for she was doubly burdened .
5 But it was a misreading to suppose that the vote then marked the high water mark on the issue .
6 Experts at the institute say that this year 's figures , which include 6,700 more Warsaw Pact tanks than were previously thought to exist , mark the high tide of eastern bloc military might .
7 The capture of Calais and the foundation of the Order of the Garter mark the high point of Edward 's military and chivalric reputation , and for seven years after 1348 the war languished .
8 And , let it be noted , if 1920 marked the high tide of Bukharin 's leftism , then it can be said to be equally true of the Bolsheviks as a whole , Lenin included .
9 A thorough analysis of the regime 's operation lies beyond the scope of this work , but since the years between the referendum of 1962 and the great crisis of 1968 marked the high point of this monarchy , it is appropriate to say more about de Gaulle 's own role in it .
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