Example sentences of "too high [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unless this is quickly controlled , in a few seconds the glider can be far too high above the towplane . |
| 2 | They all shot well ; even Elizabeth slew a deer , loosing too high at a stag and accidentally killing a hind beyond it . |
| 3 | Essex boys are n't too high on the taste and awareness ladder either , if the 50-odd who travelled the length of the country to watch Southend at Tranmere last night are any measure . |
| 4 | Bathroom and toilet door locks should be too high for a child to reach so there 's no danger of shutting themselves in . |
| 5 | Although the list price is too high for a machine of this specification , it can be bought for around £55 from Texas and other sheds . |
| 6 | Third , and most important , the quinte part in the ballet is not playable by a late 17th-century oboe band : it lies too high for the bassoon and too low for the taille de hautbois , the tenor oboe that plays the third line . |
| 7 | Brenda 's daddy , who had a van , always had to take his produce to a railway station in a different direction because the van was just too high for the bridge . |
| 8 | Do not be tempted to take a flat that is too high off the ground and requires the use of a lift . |
| 9 | On our review model the tremolo has been set up with three springs instead of Stevie 's five , and the baseplate is kicked up way too high from the face of the body . |
| 10 | To my inexperienced eyes she seemed still to be floating far too high in the water , and I doubted that we would get away before sunset . |
| 11 | The bank machines were situated too high in the wall , so are not easily operated from a wheelchair ( many of the instructions were not visible ) . |
| 12 | Short-period and long-period comets with appropriate energies explode far too high in the atmosphere to account for the observations , whereas iron objects ( with rare exceptions ) explode too low , or not at all . |
| 13 | Comets and carbonaceous asteroids deposit their energy too high in the atmosphere to account for the Tunguska explosion , whereas iron objects reach and crater the surface . |
| 14 | The blue was a flyer , wings trimmed to prevent him from going too high in the action ; he got up in a sudden whirr of fury , looking for a brain blow , but gaffing the dun bird in the breast . |
| 15 | As the overall Scottish figures show , the ratio of apprentices to journeymen in the trade was high , far too high in the view of the union , which was always trying to get employers to reduce the intake of apprentices . |
| 16 | Note , too , less obvious but important details , such as the dotting of the ‘ i's , in general much too high in the forgery ; and the dissimilar form of the ampersand . |
| 17 | From the bridge the church looked no worse than bizarre — a giant Christmas cake which , having risen too high in the oven , has been covered in over-decorated icing in order to obscure its deformity . |