Example sentences of "be the highest " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nigel Benn 's next opponent , part of the Londoner 's lucrative five-fight deal with the American promoter Bob Arum , will be the highest ranked middleweight he has yet met . |
| 2 | But now I think it 's such a terrible job that DJs deserve to be the highest paid people in the country . |
| 3 | The BX 4x4 Estate , yesterday a safari vehicle , became today a Grand Tourer as we made our farewell circuit through picturesque villages and bustling market towns until we arrived at the old spa resort of Buxton , said to be the highest town in England , where we had , reluctantly , to admit that it was time to head for home . |
| 4 | The Suffolk Dun , according to Arthur Young in 1794 , had long been celebrated for its magnanimous milk yield , said to be the highest in the country in proportion to its body size and food intake . |
| 5 | ‘ But the true lover regards the very requirements of reciprocity to be a contamination , a devaluation , and loving without the reward of reciprocated love to be the highest blessing . ’ |
| 6 | It is difficult for some people to come to grips with the fact that children do not have a higher priority than partners , because some people feel that the purpose of marriage is producing children and therefore it should be the highest priority . |
| 7 | He did not ask for mercy ; he did not plead extenuation : he was here , he said , ‘ to invite and cheerfully submit to the highest penalty that can be inflicted upon me for what in law is a deliberate crime , and what appears to me to be the highest duty of a citizen ’ . |
| 8 | If the nodes are numbered in order of creation , and a node has just been declared inactive ( for any reason ) , the next one to be developed should be the highest numbered active ( = most recently created ) node . |
| 9 | Needless to say , it will tend to be the highest calibre individuals who choose another career . |
| 10 | Emily had read a lot of magazines , she knew that it was perfectly possible for a girl with Nan 's looks to rise to be the highest in the land . |
| 11 | The BX 4×4 Estate , yesterday a safari vehicle , became today a Grand Tourer as we made our farewell circuit through picturesque villages and bustling market towns until we arrived at the old spa resort of Buxton , said to be the highest town in England , where we had reluctantly to admit that it was time to head for home . |
| 12 | Donard is the highest mountain in all of Ulster , and you could be forgiven for believing it to be the highest in the world when viewed from Newcastle . |
| 13 | It may be the highest summit but it was not the year 's highlight . |
| 14 | His prices were reputed to be the highest in London . |
| 15 | Simple truth , which must be the highest aim of any real inquiry , has explicitness as a condition . |
| 16 | The House of Lords may be the highest court in the land , but it hears comparatively few appeals each year . |
| 17 | The Col d'Aubisque is high , at 5,600 feet , and the views that you have from it are sumptuous , both back the way you have come , and now to the east as well , across to the prominent peak of the Pic du Midi de Bigorre , once thought to be the highest in the chain because it stands rather apart and closer to the plain , and before people took to actually measuring altitudes , the nearest peaks were mistaken for the tallest . |
| 18 | Where the warehouse is totally independent of other buildings , the standards of construction and protection described in other chapters will apply , but , where other accommodation is attached or within prescribed distances , the Building Regulations ( and possibly Insurance Surveyors ) will require structural separation between the different purpose groups , and the standards of fire resistance will be the highest of the respective categories . |
| 19 | Again , the standard of separating construction will be the highest requirement of any of the adjacent risks . |
| 20 | Our level of consistent performance is known to be the highest achievable . |
| 21 | The selection of the preferred bidder from the second phase is straight forward in the case of the strict auction in that it will be the highest bidder . |
| 22 | The key of this record will be the highest in that block , which usually corresponds to a track on a disk . |
| 23 | Fresh Kills , New York 's garbage dump on Staten Island , is an eyesore which by 2000 could rise to 500 feet and be the highest point south of Maine on the eastern seaboard . |
| 24 | HWIM , like HARPY , was concerned that the first spanning theory returned by the linguistic component should be the highest scoring , and much research was devoted to devising scoring and scheduling techniques that guaranteed this result . |
| 25 | Admissible algorithms guarantee that the first spanning path found will be the highest scoring . |
| 26 | If the offer is under-subscribed , all valid bids will be accepted ; if the offer is over-subscribed , it will be the highest bids that are accepted . |
| 27 | Blood heat should be the highest temperature for a smooth glossy result , although it takes more time to melt . |
| 28 | United Distillers ' aim is to be the highest quality , lowest cost producer in the industry . |
| 29 | On the worst days , the radiation was twice as bad as any measured since the programme began in 1988 , and scientists speculate that it may be the highest ever experienced since the ozone shield developed one billion years ago . |
| 30 | In practice , this is unlikely to prove a problem for directors of private companies who are probably also the shareholders , but directors of public companies do have to consider whether it is in the interests of the company and the shareholders to agree to a lock-out clause at a figure which may not be the highest obtainable . |