Example sentences of "[noun pl] at the high [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It was very hard for me to take , ’ said the Amstrad boss , who was greeted by a small throng of angry fans at the High Court each day . |
| 2 | A short length of aerial wire ( not more than about three metres ) may be necessary in order to receive signals at the high frequency end of the medium waveband . |
| 3 | It had at least seven governing bodies and watchdogs set over it : the Danzig Volkstag , the Danzig Senate , the Polish Commissioner General , the German Commissioner General , the Danzig Harbour Board , the League of Nations High Commissioner , the Council of the League of Nations at the High Court in the Hague and finally , the League itself sitting in Geneva . |
| 4 | A man who was caught in possession of a stolen famous painting has been jailed for eighteen months at the High Court in Edinburgh . |
| 5 | Yesterday , Campbell Hynd , 21 , of Walker 's Wynd , Edinburgh , was jailed for 30 months at the High Court in Edinburgh after admitting two charges of wilful fire-raising . |
| 6 | A writ was issued against 15 defendants at the High Court in London last month . |
| 7 | The moves follow a separate case involving a 14-year-old girl who will today defend her right to ‘ divorce ’ her parents at the High Court . |
| 8 | Stephen Windsor was speaking after he 'd asked judges at the High Court in Edinburgh to use special powers to allow new evidence to be heard . |
| 9 | And since October last year there 've been a series of applications at the High Court in London for the company to be wound up . |
| 10 | Mrs Bauwens will seek a retrial of a case that cost £250,000 over seven dramatic days at the High Court . |
| 11 | Conversely , in the UK the margins at the high end of the market could be substantial , especially if high utilisations and operating efficiencies can be achieved . |
| 12 | Taxing all health in-surance benefits provided by employers over a basic insurance package would reduce some inequities at the high end while producing revenues to help small employers and self employed workers to buy insurance . |
| 13 | James Beveridge , 36 , unemployed , of no settled address , was jailed for two years at the High Court in Edinburgh yesterday after admitting making a hoax bomb call to Gatwick airport . |
| 14 | A MAN was jailed for six years at the High Court in Glasgow yesterday for his part in attempting to murder a man after luring him into a night of torture . |
| 15 | He was jailed for four years at the High Court , Edinburgh in July 1992 when a jury found him guilty of indecently assaulting an 18-year-old boy he met in St Andrews Bus Station , Edinburgh . |
| 16 | A DRUG dealer who recruited youngsters to sell ecstasy and cannabis in the Highlands was jailed for five years at the High Court in Inverness yesterday . |
| 17 | A FORMER tyre depot manager involved in drug dealing was jailed for three years at the High Court in Aberdeen yesterday . |
| 18 | A STORNOWAY man was jailed for four years at the High Court in Inverness after being convicted of hijacking a lorry with a £30,000 load of spirits , tobacco and groceries . |
| 19 | Teresa Gorman , Conservative MP for Billericay , accepted undisclosed libel damages at the High Court in London against the satirical magazine Private Eye . |
| 20 | Mrs Margaret Ashton , aged 30 , who woke during a caesarean operation in 1980 at Billinge hospital , near Wigan , was awarded £21,000 agreed damages at the High Court in Manchester . |
| 21 | American art scholar Professor Frederick Hartt won £7,500 libel damages at the High Court in London over two articles in the Independent on his attribution of a statuette to Michelangelo . |
| 22 | The family of a woman crushed by a lorry on a pedestrian crossing was awarded £108,749 damages at the High Court in London yesterday . |
| 23 | " I was tip nearly all night because I had to lead the first devotions at the High Council , with all those experienced and senior leaders of the Army world . " |
| 24 | Mr Justice Drake , sitting in chambers at the High Court yesterday , said a full hearing of Virgin 's action was likely by early July . |
| 25 | There will be a full hearing in chambers at the High Court before the president of the Family Division , Sir Stephen Brown , tomorrow when all parties will be represented , including the mother of the girl 's boyfriend . |
| 26 | Stephen Sedley was continuing his opening speech on the second day of a damages action against British Nuclear Fuels at the High Court in London . |
| 27 | Launching a sugar plantation took a great deal of capital and the planters were always short of money ; many of them had bought estates at the high land prices of the boom , and most of them felt they owed it to themselves to live in a gentlemanly way that ignored debts . |
| 28 | Fuel life : the standard fuel bottle filled to the advised two thirds level lasted three hours 38 minutes at the high output setting . |
| 29 | In today 's preliminary hearings at the High Court a 36-year-old farmer and 25-year-old X-ray technician both claim a right to asylum under the 1951 United Nations Convention Relating to Refugee Status on the ground that they have a well-founded fear of persecution if they are deported . |
| 30 | The noise was intense , constant chatter , voices raised in argument , an air of expectancy , even tension , as everyone pretended to be involved in what was happening around them but secretly watched the great ones at the high table . |