Example sentences of "as [art] highest " in BNC.
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| 1 | The students from that time remembered a man with a sharp sense of the ridiculous ; who ragged them but was too shy to be intimate with them though they liked him much for his friendliness and his humour ; who was famous for long , sudden , and embarrassing silences ; who was so eccentric that none of them believed that he could later be a man of distinction in England or his Church ; a man who loved theology — they never met anywhere else a man who so loved theology , and who regarded theology as the highest intellectual activity for humanity ; a fierce defender of liberty of opinion , for Marxists as for anyone else ; whose principal theme was the glory of God , and who was evidently touched by his ideas of Plato ; who did not give the impression of a mind of exceptional ability — there was not enough knife in the mind — but who gave the impression of being an exceptional person ; who disturbed other people 's prayers in chapel with convulsive fidgets and sudden face-rubbings — they regarded him as tense in his devotions and were afraid of a nervous breakdown ; who had a manifest and rare mystical sense of the immediate presence of God , a presence so brilliant that it could almost overpower . |
| 2 | THE top two executives at pharmaceuticals group SmithKline Beecham yesterday emerged as the highest paid duo in a major British quoted company . |
| 3 | It was conceived as the highest body in the land , 1,000 or so of the most powerful figures in industry , agriculture and science . |
| 4 | I suspect however that you have misquoted the number as the highest number I know is 57435 . |
| 5 | Be open to God in all of your existence , as the highest good in all of life . |
| 6 | If this flow could be transported to North Wales , it would stand half as high as Snowdon ; if it could be transported to Surrey , it would be half as high again as the highest hill , and , such is the attraction of all high objects from mountains to the cost of living , it would be an important landmark , regularly thronged in summer with picnickers and ramblers , and would feature on scores of postcards . |
| 7 | Her achievement of 144 points out of a possible 150 tied with those of a boy from the choir school at Durham as the highest marks recorded at the grade in the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music 's most recent examining period . |
| 8 | Ballochmyle viaduct , which carries the Kilmarnock to Dumfries railway line over the River Ayr , south of Mauchline , is in the Guinness Book of Records as the highest railway bridge in Britain . |
| 9 | Of these countries , West Germany as the highest consumption of spirits at about 8 litres a year , Portugal the lowest at 2 litres . |
| 10 | This is perhaps understandable , but it is stretching credulity to expect us to bless it as the highest human freedom . |
| 11 | The movie is expected to overtake ET , which made more than £475 million , as the highest earner in Hollywood history . |
| 12 | In The Holy Family , Marx refers to socialism as the highest form of atheism : if atheism ‘ affirms man through the denial of God ’ , that is , if it is the ‘ negative affirmation of man ’ , then he argues that socialism is ‘ man 's positive affirmation ’ . |
| 13 | Skipper Border , who started the match needing 348 runs to overhaul India 's Sunil Gavaskar as the highest run-scorer in Test history , helped the home side recover to 259–6 . |
| 14 | Jeremy Bates began his single minded quest for world computer points with ruthless discipline , and as the highest ranked player on the circuit , had to deal with the ensuing pressure to win every match . |
| 15 | It did not only transform the political and military map : by the destruction which it wrought , unparalleled in previous human history in its scale , it hurled a black question mark against the confidence in the onward and upward progress of Christian civilisation which had so strongly characterised Liberal Theology , and forced the bitter question whether the advanced theological thought of the nineteenth century as a whole had not been far too unaware of the darker side of human nature , too optimistic about innate human capacity for good , too willing to take contemporary culture at its own high evaluation of itself , and overall too disposed to take God for granted , and to assume that he was somehow simply ‘ given ’ in what it regarded as the highest ethical , spiritual and religious values of mankind . |
| 16 | Seeming to be merely speckles and punctures at first , actually they were tall as the highest trees . |
| 17 | For the moment , there is little reason to doubt that he regards ‘ internationalism ’ as the highest form of patriotism . |
| 18 | All these levels may be seen as controlled by the relationship of the people involved in the discourse , which we may regard as the highest level . |
| 19 | The same principle applies to the highest key on any track ; as the highest key on track 06 was 298 when the file was created , a record with the key 299 belongs logically to track 07 , whether it is stored on that track already or has not yet been added . |
| 20 | In Chapter 2 , I argued that the emancipatory conception of higher education — as I termed it — is to be found historically in the deep structure of the concept of higher education ( and I developed the idea in Chapter 8 , in discussing emancipation as the highest form of rationality ) . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Greek images were also used by physiognomists and ethnologists when they began to create racist classification systems which placed the Greek profile as the highest development of humanity , above Jewish people with African peoples lower down the scale , represented so as to approximate their profiles with those of primates and apes at the bottom . |
| 23 | This award is significant in that it is regarded as the highest accolade within the weighing equipment calibration field and is only the seventh certificate to be presented within the UK . |
| 24 | As the highest degree that can be awarded , it proclaims that the recipient is worthy of being listened to as an equal by the appropriate university faculty . ’ |
| 25 | Results were expressed as basal acid output ( BAO ) , defined as the mean of the last two recordings during the basal collection , and peak acid output ( PAO ) defined as the highest mean obtainable from two consecutive recordings during the stimulated period . |
| 26 | Its objects , like the houses which contained them , were solid , a term used , characteristically , as the highest praise for a business enterprise . |
| 27 | Seven law lords acting as the highest court in the Commonwealth have ruled that two men on death row in Jamaica for fourteen years should have their sentence commuted to life imprisonment . |