Example sentences of "[adv prt] to a high [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As secret agent 006 and a half your mission is to parachute down to a high security island and secure the plans to the ultimate satellite laser weapon . |
| 2 | IF you 're tied in to a high mortgage rate it might be worth your while doing the switch . |
| 3 | ‘ But we will go and look just the same , ’ he decided , and , taking her by the arm , he guided her to the front of the building and over to a high parapet . |
| 4 | To produce 3 minutes inbound at a G/S of 112kts the required distance is 5.5nm. 6nm rounded off to a higher figure . |
| 5 | Well the , the er the Guilds I can speak now because I 've been up to a higher level , I 've been on the section and Birmingham is a very big area . |
| 6 | That worked very well indeed er over a period of what twelve to eighteen months , the whole street , which was mainly residential , was brought up to standard up to a higher standard , simply by providing new fronts . |
| 7 | Many men battled valiantly with what they conceived of as temptation and strove to live up to a higher ideal of married life , and few women , including leading feminists , would have thought of demanding more . |
| 8 | Er are the toilets kept up to a high standard ? |
| 9 | The graphics in 256 colour mode are pretty good , and the ground detail is also up to a high standard . |
| 10 | All the little steps have added up to a high achievement . |
| 11 | A territorial sunbird can time its visits to a particular flower such that its nectar has built up to a high level . |
| 12 | The angle eased , and Mick smeared up to a high peg from which the guide suggested a rope move . |
| 13 | ‘ A woman had taken some children playing in the road up to a high room to ‘ see her puppies . ’ |
| 14 | The basic characteristic of the H.T. is that the flowers are invariably double with so many petals — sometimes to their detriment in wet weather — that the centre becomes pushed up to a high point — in the classic shape that everybody likes to see . |
| 15 | Like the rest of the boat , the cabin had been fitted out to a high standard using top-quality materials . |
| 16 | The magnetron , as it then existed , was a hollow copper block pumped out to a high vacuum , through which ran a heated wire . |
| 17 | The Joint Security Group takes intelligence about possible forthcoming terrorist attacks — usually provided by MI5 or BfV — and puts Army and RAF units on to a higher state of alert . |
| 18 | Some worksheets may begin with simple lower order questions , leading on to a higher order question . |
| 19 | Higher earners move on to a higher rate — in 1991/2 , a rate of 40 per cent for that taxable income which topped 23.700 . |
| 20 | The Safrane , Renault 's direct replacement for the R25 , aims to be the icing on the cake and , as such , has to raise the game of the competent but uninspired R25 on to a higher plane . |
| 21 | In 1986 I cultivated new ambitions which took me out of the British orbit and on to a higher plane . |
| 22 | Climbing up on to a high bastion , I looked down over the shimmering interior of the fort and thought of the words that must once have been a set text for the cavalrymen stationed here : |
| 23 | I wonder sometimes where my cousin ended up ; at the bottom of the sea , or washed on to some craggy and deserted shore , or blown on to a high mountain face , to be eaten by gulls or eagles … |
| 24 | Someone lifted me up on to a high chair , so that I was close to his nose . |
| 25 | Then she flew on to a high window-sill and I had to ask the headmaster to bring me a ladder so that I could bring her down . |