Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] the high [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From his new station he could see the three lakes — Loweswater , Crummock Water and Buttermere — lined up in the valley like three barges ready to be towed down to the shore ; he could see the bivouac huts of some woodmen and he spotted more than one flock coming down from the high pastures — but Mary chided him . |
| 2 | Shortly before the first autumn snows the flock is brought down from the high pastures . |
| 3 | Thousands of imported sheep had left their devastating mark and the latest ‘ crop ’ , the deer , finished off any saplings the sheep might have missed when they came down from the high tops in the winter . |
| 4 | If you want to head off into the higher mountains , cross-country skiing is n't the best sport for children : the effort , though not strenuous , is constant , and children under ten could tire if asked to ski for longer than a half-day . |
| 5 | In choosing a kasabat kadilik , then , a student was in effect shutting himself off from the high offices of state and , provided that he intended to stay within the learned profession , dooming himself to a lifetime of service in the kasabat kadiliks unless he could somehow get back into the medrese stream . |
| 6 | Thus , for example , rather than barring production above current levels of , say , asbestos at each plant throughout the nation , a ceiling on national production could be imposed with the rights to manufacture within the total being auctioned off to the highest bidders . |
| 7 | So you can carve up the remains and sell them off to the highest bidders ? ’ |
| 8 | The praise was complete and we all departed , the minister helicoptering off to the high mountains to give worship to the farmers herding their stock . |
| 9 | She hurried on into the high woods to see Kitty , her basket Wed with even more goodies than usual , a stock , indeed , which her father would ( rightly ) have called wasteful , far beyond alms . |
| 10 | Benny walked slowly up towards the high seats at the back where she thought she might be more inconspicuous . |
| 11 | Today , I think people would say that a lot of what we did in those early days has been influential in the general brightening up of the high streets in this country . |
| 12 | But when they brought him up into the higher reaches of the Warden 's Tower and shut him into his new prison he was stupefied to find it all they had claimed . |
| 13 | Many scorned it but rapturous press reviews helped push the record up into the high altitudes of the independent chart . |
| 14 | I am proposing to ponder the question of Letterman 's script up in the higher altitudes . |
| 15 | Calero said he had never heard of it , except to read about it : ‘ Was that the one we were supposed to blow up on the high seas ? ’ |
| 16 | And this ‘ vague altruism ’ apparently permeated up to the highest levels in government : for example , Neville Chamberlain , who had been a leading figure in the pre-war National Government 's denial of the problem of child malnutrition , was so shocked by the stories of the children 's condition that he commented to his sister , ‘ I never knew that such conditions existed , and I feel ashamed of having been so ignorant of my neighbours . |
| 17 | When the laundry maid had told her he had been married , she had gone up to the high moors and wept . |
| 18 | Concentrate instead on your own reputation by continuing to live up to the high standards you always set yourself . |
| 19 | Editorial decisions are backed by extensive market research , and manuscripts selected and edited according to ‘ whether the story lives up to the high standards that Mills and Boon readers have set for us … we ca n't please every one of our readers all the time , but it is n't for want of trying ! ’ |
| 20 | If Charlton does stay on after the World Cup , he 'll find it hard to live up to the high standards he has set . |
| 21 | Animals still travel up to the high pastures , but today the migration is by truck , and not on foot . |
| 22 | The Harpenden test facility will show how these stand up to the high temperatures of the tropics . |
| 23 | I ’ ) — could not live up to the high expectations created by German propaganda . |
| 24 | The key question was whether , in practice , the numbers of candidates enrolling for the new system would live up to the high expectations . |
| 25 | ‘ My task is to fill the hotel but make sure that we live up to the high expectations guests associate with this sort of establishment . |
| 26 | The level of orders received in the first quarter worsened compared with a year earlier , but turnover in the first quarter was up to the high levels of the year-ago quarter . |
| 27 | She might have succeeded in reaching him , but the tree was laden with apples and as she moved up among the higher branches where the fruit had almost ripened , apples began to cascade down . |
| 28 | As the numbers and grades of medreses increased with the passage of time , so also did the numbers and grades of mevleviyets , the term used here in the sense which would appear to have been valid , with minor qualifications , at least from the latter half of the sixteenth century , namely as comprising principally the kazaskerliks and the important kadiliks-the mevleviyet kadiliks — to which one moved on from the higher medreses and through which one moved , if one were fortunate , eventually to reach the kazaskerliks and , by the end of the sixteenth century , the Muftilik . |
| 29 | In the Mala Strana , the secretaries and the artists , the nurses and the busmen return to their apartments , the lights go on in the high windows , the courtyard below us is filling up with the smells of food and voices discussing — what ? |
| 30 | Several times in the next few months I went up to the top floor again , where I could look out of the high windows in the roof to see the surrounding countryside and be alone with my thoughts . |