Example sentences of "[noun sg] at the high [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tighter the constraint provided by the context , the greater the excitations and feedback at the higher level . |
| 2 | The result has been that ‘ investment at the highest levels ever ’ has come from fares , not from any public purse , and that an ‘ economic ’ system has become unsafe as BR and LRT weigh up commercial investment needs against the cost of safety measures and the cost of paying wages sufficient to maintain a safe level of staffing . |
| 3 | ‘ No disrespect to Grimsby — they are a good club and a fine footballing side — but I still believe I have a future at the highest level , ’ he said yesterday . |
| 4 | THE innocence of youth will give way to the pressures of adulthood when Duncan Ferguson plays against Germany at Ibrox tomorrow night , ending a nine-month period during which his future at the highest level looked in doubt . |
| 5 | In any event by 1606 he had certainly attracted patronage at the highest level : his sponsors for freedom of the City were Lady Arabella Stuart , third in line to the throne , and her future father-in-law Edward Seymour , Earl of Hertford [ qq.v . ] . |
| 6 | In this sense , the search at the higher level only takes small steps . |
| 7 | Rocky outcrop at the highest point of the grouse moors ; view over Wharfedale towards Burnsall and of Skyreholme , a tributary valley . |
| 8 | Digital Equipment Corp has announced that it will offer a new hub backplane , code-named One Hub , in early 1993 , plugging the gap at the high end of the DEChub 90 range and for the first time offering Ethernet , Token Ring , and the Fibre Distributed Data Interface , FDDI , at first , and Asynchronous Transfer Mode high-speed networking technology , when it becomes available , in one product . |
| 9 | The meeting concluded that " the well-being of children requires political action at the highest level " . |
| 10 | I would propose that we explore with the Managing Director a possibility of a deal at the higher end of this range but this may mean some form of earnout . |
| 11 | The approach used by Sheffield was particularly helpful , in that it established credibility for partnership at the highest level , with a supportive framework for development . |
| 12 | Yes , let there be solemnity and reverence at the high points of our celebration . |
| 13 | She wore a moulded oval felt hat , with a deliberate dent at the high point . |
| 14 | If incapacity for work continues thereafter , a person can obtain invalidity benefit at the higher rate of £43.60 plus £26.20 for an adult dependant and £8.95 for each child . |
| 15 | Going back perhaps 200 years the Ponderosa was a little farmhouse nestling in a redoubt at the highest point on the mountain road between Belfast and ‘ Derry . |
| 16 | The LTA is operating in what is today a very professional tennis world , yet on all the LTA 's innumerable committees , there is hardly a single person who has had personal experience of playing top class international tennis at the highest level since the game went ‘ Open ’ in 1968 . |
| 17 | You 're just not going to be able to maintain your rugby at the highest standard otherwise . |
| 18 | Denis Evans , secretary of the WRU , said : ‘ Both men have demonstrated their great commitment to Wales over the last nine months and have shown they have the talent and organisational ability to help generate success for the Welsh team at the highest level . ’ |
| 19 | Ian Watson , the student in question was a clever young man who had worked very hard to achieve his place at the higher seat of learning ; he found it very difficult to manage on the pittance that his father allowed him . |
| 20 | In mid-1968 , a time of financial difficulty , while urgent discussions were taking place at the highest level on ways to save the party newspapers , the Ministry of Information was trying to find ways of cutting back expenditure on broadcasting and information services . |
| 21 | The starting point for each of them is to ascertain from the appropriate table of retail price indices covering the period between service of writ and trial what would have been the equivalent of those damages in the money of the day at the date of service of writ , reckoned in pounds sterling at the higher value that they then stood at at the very beginning of the period for which simple interest is to be given . |
| 22 | Privately , however , reaction at the higher end of the trade is positive , with the feeling that potential purchasers will turn back to the dealers for better service at more or less comparable prices . |
| 23 | ‘ That 's not a criticism of his performances behind the stumps , because he 's good enough to do the job at the highest level , but it is asking too much to do both . ’ |
| 24 | Arbroath 's south transept even looks as if it has smelt the wind under which it will sail ; it is a tall , bare , one-shouldered hulk with a single blank eye at the high gable top where a rose window used to be . |
| 25 | Steady state occurred within 67 to 140 seconds with the shortest period at the highest distension pressures . |
| 26 | The time to steady state rectal CSA was 67 to 140 seconds with the shortest period at the highest distension pressures . |
| 27 | THERE will be another feather in the cap for Stirling County 's pioneering youth policy this weekend as a stand-off makes the grade at the highest level . |
| 28 | Tuesday , 23rd : After a brief meeting at the High Commission with the Education Adviser , I gave a second lecture on ‘ the Logic of Polite Conversation ’ at J.N.U. , and was afterwards invited to lunch by the English Department , in the company of the Vice-Chancellor and various members of staff . |
| 29 | In the same way , if your spouse pays income tax at the higher rate and you pay tax at only the ( lower ) basic rate , then in order to obtain Higher Rate Tax Relief , your spouse should enter into the covenant , or into a Joint Deed of Covenant with you , and he/she should actually make the covenant payments . |
| 30 | If you pay tax at the higher rate you will personally obtain further relief of 15% on the gross figure , so making the net cost of the payment to you £600 . |