Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] [prep] the high " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only problems encountered were that I tended to catch my chin on the high foam on the front and shoulder elastic was slightly against skin . |
| 2 | Today Michelle Howard took her case to the High Court , where she hopes to prove that Wessex Health Authority was liable . |
| 3 | Last December her suspension was briefly lifted when she won her first judicial review of her case in the High Court . |
| 4 | BR used press campaigns in the early 1980s to put the arguments for higher state support , basing its case on the higher subsidies of other European railways as a percentage of GNP . |
| 5 | Our partnership has never been aimed at a resourcing of the school in a material sense , but has focused on the educational experiences of students and their provision at the highest quality possible . |
| 6 | His decision should be binding … but students have n't ruled out an earlier pledge to take their fight to the High Court . |
| 7 | She had listened to Arlene 's own voice and set about imitating it for she held her mentor in the highest esteem whilst still being a little afraid of her . |
| 8 | They want the Government to buy it and today they took their case to the High Court in London . |
| 9 | As a procedural matter , the Court of Appeal determined that the inhabitants should bring their case in the High Court of the Trust Territory rather than in the District Courts of the United States , and rejected the claim . |
| 10 | A WOMAN has been sent a council tax bill for £800 after bungling valuers put her shack in the highest tax band . |
| 11 | Lawyers for her husband contested her action in the High Court in London on Wednesday and she was given seven days to hand them back . |
| 12 | One has to decide whether federal universities are singular or plural ; what proportion of an institution 's courses have to be ‘ advanced ’ to justify its inclusion in the higher education sector ; and whether to include a number of small , specialized institutions ( for agriculture , technology and the arts ) and voluntary colleges ( mainly church-affiliated ) in the list . |
| 13 | Unless the court otherwise directs , money received or paid into court in respect of persons under disability shall remain in court and be invested or dealt with as the court thinks fit , which in many cases may be its transfer to the High Court ( Ord 10 , r 11(1) — ( 3 ) ) . |
| 14 | I have seen the ladies of Rye doing their shopping in the High Street every morning , carrying large market baskets , and bumping into each other in narrow doorways , and talking in a very animated manner … |
| 15 | Though he 'd never used it , the Bowl was reputedly the most accurate prophetic tool known in the worlds , and now — sitting amid his treasures , with a sense growing in him that events on Earth in the last few days were leading to some matter of moment — he brought the Bowl down from its place on the highest shelf , unwrapped it , and set it on the table . |
| 16 | LASMO aims to conduct its business to the highest possible professional standards . |
| 17 | Undefended flowers can not be farmed in this manner , because another bird could come and drink from the flower during the interval before it has restored its nectar to the higher level . |
| 18 | We conclude that the high rate of sudden infant death syndrome among Maori infants has much of its foundation in the high prevalence in the Maori population of the major risk factors , and other risk factors , not related to ethnicity , probably explain remaining differences between Maori and non-Maori children . |
| 19 | This line reached a crossing of the Mid Wales Line , of the Cambrian Railway , at Builth Road in April 1867 , then known as Llechryd but taking its name from the high level station which still survives . |
| 20 | With their replacement by the High Court and the Crown Court at fixed centres throughout the country , a new administrative structure had to be devised and substantial numbers of non-lawyer administrators were imported from other departments and elsewhere . |
| 21 | The University of Nottingham is meeting these challenges by maintaining its commitment to the highest quality teaching and research . |
| 22 | Whenever my mother had to go shopping I 'd contrive to make her walk to the high street via the park . |
| 23 | Other walkers were struggling up the dusty track , sweating and wheezing their way to the high plateau . |
| 24 | Moreover , once imbalances have been created , they tend to work their way through the higher age groups in situ . |
| 25 | Taking its way along the high sad wall confining the stableyard , it crossed , by a minute stone-walled bridge ( gateposts in exact relation to its height and arch were built into the walls tight as ingrowing toe-nails ) , the same stream that hurried down the garden hill . |
| 26 | When the road dipped down to the curved span of the bridge she saw the water far below , snaking its way between the high rock walls of a narrow gorge . |
| 27 | She pushed her way down the High Street , swinging her shopping bag against the legs of others and being clobbered in return . |
| 28 | As time went on , and the sultans who succeeded Mehmed II built their own medreses , the Sahn slipped from its position as the highest class of medreses , and , in the fully elaborated hierarchy , is only the sixth of twelve grades above the 40-akce level . |
| 29 | All professionals will have , as an objective , the desire to provide a service to their client at the highest possible standard using whatever resources may be required . |
| 30 | By the end of their jaunt on the high seas initially dubious visitors are often reluctant to return home and will consider taking their own clients on a similar event . |