Example sentences of "[vb pp] at the high [noun] " 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 ‘ I have n't looked at the high scoring yet but there are no surprises at what you are going to get out there . ’
9 Precisely this eventuality had been considered at the highest level in the days just before the war ended .
10 The allocation was decided at the highest level of government , and radio broadcasting had long been low on the list of priorities .
11 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 .
12 His success in being accepted at the highest levels of the League enabled him to provide graphic accounts of their meetings and organization .
13 But in an announcement made at the High Court in London it 's agreed to pay compensation on the basis of 85 percent liability .
14 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 .
15 What was called a cart load of peat was being sold at the high price of 2/6 .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 Both Detective Sergeant Window and PC Hall are brave men who deserve to be commended at the highest level .
19 Thorold Mackie was alleged at the High Court in Edinburgh to have used information obtained from a company chairman about an impending profits warning .
20 Mr Coetsee said a warrant would also be issued for the arrest of Captain Dirk Coetzee , the former head of a police murder squad who confirmed and amplified Nofomela 's disclosures , claiming that the killings had been approved at the highest level .
21 Sole is one of those rare front-row forwards whose remarkable range of skills not only makes him a complete footballer but also brings fresh possibilities to the way the game can be played at the highest level .
22 ‘ Mickey has played at the highest level and he gets the same thing out of the game as he has always done .
23 While the glucose dependent insulin release was reduced by treatment with 5 and 10 mg/kg cyclosporin A for eight days , the cholecystokinin-8 stimulated amylase secretion was only impaired at the higher dose of 10 mg/kg cyclosporin A. Insulin promotes the synthesis of amylase by a direct effect on exocrine pancreatic cells via the insuloacinar axis .
24 Aristocratic influences were at their height during the first half of the nineteenth century and in any diplomatic service were always most marked at the highest levels .
25 The applicant John Cox was involved at the highest level in both CND and the Communist Party of Great Britain , both in the period of Communist domination ’ and in the late 1970s when CND was growing .
26 Everybody was there to be academically acknowledged at the highest level they could and sport was just something that came as well .
27 Conversely if the samples stored at the higher temperatures show little or no change , it may be possible to reduce the frequency of , or even omit , certain of the scheduled examinations at lower temperatures .
28 What is more , when inflation is taken into account , the present middle-income earners have relatively less disposable income under the present higher tax rate of 60% than they did under the old regime of tax charged at the highest rate of 83% such is the falling-behind effect of tax allowances granted in recent years .
29 With stocks running perilously low , the Czechoslovak government on Oct. 6 introduced a fuel rationing system whereby a maximum 25 litres could be bought at existing prices , with purchases over that limit charged at prices one-third higher ( all petrol was to be charged at the higher price from Nov. 1 ) .
30 The writs have been filed at the High Court and must be served within the next three months .
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