Example sentences of "one of the high " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I visited Aunt Louise there was just time for us to have a meal in one of the High Street cafés before I caught the bus home . |
| 2 | A splendid , concise article in your Apr 26 Business section alerted me to the underhand profiteering of at least one of the high street banks at its farmer customers ' expense before the scandal broke in the national press and before the Chancellor of the Exchequer carpeted the bank bosses . |
| 3 | Then Frankie was left perched on one of the high oak stools , staring at ranks of miniature wooden drawers with unreadable labels . |
| 4 | One of the high points in the life of Ellen Garwood , a wealthy Texas widow and author , was the day she sat with Reagan in the Oval Office ( ’ we had Sanka ’ ) and told him that he ought to get rid , first , of the Sandinistas , and second of the secretary of state . |
| 5 | The performance of the 4th Indian Division among the mountains of Tunisia was one of the high points of the North African campaign . |
| 6 | On the second day , as we set off to walk over one of the high gritstone moors towards Kinder Scout , a sudden squall made us pleased at our foresight in bringing our Sprayway Torridon jackets along . |
| 7 | We set off to walk over one of the high gritstone moors towards Kinder Scout . |
| 8 | The occasion was a splendid one , to be remembered afterwards as one of the high points of the Empire . |
| 9 | He rode to school on one of the high ‘ sit up and beg ’ bikes with a saddle on the crossbar , which enabled him to take his daughter from his home at Harnham to school at The Godolphin . |
| 10 | For Peter , one of the high dramas was attending auctions . |
| 11 | Not that our sort is given to bragging in any case , but it had given my dad — a branch manager for one of the High Street banks — a certain quiet satisfaction to be able to let his staff know that his son was ‘ going up ’ to Oxford . |
| 12 | One of the high spots is a dancing Nazi chorus of boys and girls forming a revolving swastika in the musical number Springtime for Hitler . |
| 13 | The commission is a preliminary vetting and investigatory body which , in addition to entertaining references from states parties themselves ( Art.24 ) , ‘ may receive petitions … from any person , non-governmental organisation or group of individuals claiming to be the victim of a violation by one of the High Contracting Parties … ’ |
| 14 | Professor Davie 's further remarks ( on pp. 164 and 165 of the same book ) must not be missed ; they seem to me one of the high points of modern appreciation of Wordsworth 's greatness . |
| 15 | Midland Software 's recently launched Delphi Absence application , part of its Delphi suite of personnel systems , was developed in conjunction with one of the high street banks . |
| 16 | Mr Martin recalled this improvement as one of the high points of his term as secretary general . |
| 17 | On the second day , as we set off to walk over one of the high gritstone moors towards Kinder Scout , a sudden squall made us pleased at our foresight in bringing our Sprayway Torridon jackets along . |
| 18 | We ca n't remember any , but the first time we were on the cover was one of the high points of our short and illustrious career ( pass the sickbag please , stewardess ) |
| 19 | Then we put a box on one of the high window-sills . |
| 20 | Massingham had expected that Darren would live in one of the high rise local authority housing estates in Paddington . |
| 21 | Serfaty 's unexpected release from Kenitra Jail on 13 September 1991 ended 17 years of imprisonment , and was one of the high points of Amnesty 's very successful Morocco campaign . |
| 22 | A CHANGE IN STORE Littlewoods is one of the high street survivors , but its mail order catalogues are on the market . |
| 23 | I trudged along and paid the usual fee to the port collector , then presented myself to a Vadinamian Warden , one of the high officials overseeing the Intelloids that do the real work . |
| 24 | It was one of the big mills and er there 's still parts of it yet , in use , one of the high buildings is still there . |
| 25 | Black smoke was coming from one of the high chimneys of the main building . |
| 26 | If the abbey was a marvel of man 's work , the Tor was God 's answer for in that flat land it looked like one of the high places mentioned in the bible where the ancient patriarchs went to talk to Yahweh . |
| 27 | In some areas the water was up to four feet high in places and for people who did not want to get wet the task of crossing this water was only possible by two ways , the first being to ask to hitch a lift in one of the high performance tractors which were out being a sort of taxi service and the second option was to catch a lift in either of the boats which also appeared to offer their services . |
| 28 | One of the high stone pillars carried a large , new-looking sign , showing the château 's name , with the now familiar emblem of the tower and the rose beside it . |
| 29 | So , before your idea is rejected , find out how much it is likely to cost , if necessary by one of the high street printing chains . |
| 30 | Buckinghamshire are playing Leicestershire … just the day for a game of cup cricket … just the day for the local people to come out and see if their team could knock down one of the high and mighty … |