Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] at [art] high " in BNC.
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| 1 | NINE of 13 drug charges against a former tyre depot manager were dropped at the High Court in Aberdeen yesterday . |
| 2 | In the USA , until 1986 , all gains and losses on futures contracts were taxed at the long-term rate of tax , while gains and losses on shares held for less than six months were taxed at the higher short-term rate . |
| 3 | So if there 's any er er erm thought that the er ombudsman complaints were running at a high level as far as this committee 's interest were concerned , I can confirm that that is n't in fact the case . |
| 4 | The photographs were taken at a high water level . |
| 5 | Again , er they were talking at the higher reach of our number |
| 6 | The close ties between South Africa and Israel were reaffirmed at the highest level on Nov. 10 when President F. W. de Klerk and Botha arrived in Jerusalem . |
| 7 | Indeed , it indicated that the companies deemed by Kearney to be unsuccessful users of information technology were investing at a higher rate that the successful ones . |
| 8 | It is worth noting that whereas profit shares in manufacturing fell over the period , in the financial sector they were maintained at a high and even rising level [ Brown and Sheriff , 1978 ] . |
| 9 | Of these claims , 1535 ( 77.2% ) were paid at the higher rate and 453 ( 22.8% ) at the lower rate paid for visits done by deputising services . |
| 10 | Thus violence was sustained at a high level by American capitals ‘ first great offensive against labor ’ from the late-nineteenth century to the 1920s . |
| 11 | He was educated at the High School , Hampstead ; Cumming 's College , outside Boulogne ; Westcliff College , Ramsgate ; and Craven College , Highgate . |
| 12 | A few seconds later a second flock was seen at a higher level and directly in the aircraft 's flight path . |
| 13 | The allocation was decided at the highest level of government , and radio broadcasting had long been low on the list of priorities . |
| 14 | At the time a decision was made at the highest political level , with help from the mighty KGB chief Yury Andropov . |
| 15 | Thorold Mackie was alleged at the High Court in Edinburgh to have used information obtained from a company chairman about an impending profits warning . |
| 16 | The only disturbance to the peace of this natural sanctuary occurred 120 years ago when a spectacular railway was laid at a high level across the head of the valley ; this apart , Dentdale today is very much as it was three centuries ago , happily free from modern developments and well content to remain so . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ The decision to meet Sakharov 's demand and save his life was taken at the highest level , evidently at a meeting of the politbureau . |
| 19 | Judgment was reserved at the High Court in London yesterday on a claim by Mr Christopher Merlin , aged 48 , and his wife , Christine , of Broughton-in-Furness , Cumbria , that their former home was contaminated with plutonimum dust from the Sellafield plant . |
| 20 | Judgment was reserved at the High Court in London yesterday on a claim by Mr Christopher Merlin , aged 48 , and his wife , Christine , of Broughton-in-Furness , Cumbria , who claim their former home was contaminated with plutonimum dust from the Sellafield plant . |
| 21 | In the event , as we have seen , the Layfield Report was published at the high point of the importance of government grants as a proportion of local income . |
| 22 | Smith was working at the High Commission in India when he met and married his wife , Isa , who survives him . |