Example sentences of "high [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the west , they said , the waves had ranged a hundred feet high up the cliffs , scouring the bird-ledges clean and breaking through bridges and tunnels of rock where no gap had existed before . |
| 2 | A stronger European Parliament would be a powerful ally in ensuring that social rights , the environment , a peace oriented foreign policy and democracy itself , are forced higher up the European political agenda . |
| 3 | Troublemakers higher up the salary structure are brought to heel with an invitation to contribute 500 lei to the national debt . |
| 4 | Aunt Louise was always telling me to put more coal on the fire — higher and higher up the chimney which , as I knew , needed sweeping . |
| 5 | Mrs Anthony , 50 , from Middle Zoy , Somerset , a Tory councillor and a retired senior union negotiator , said the minimum wage would undermine agreed pay structures and force people higher up the pay ladder to seek rises to maintain differentials . |
| 6 | Despite elaborate efforts by experts to blast and block underground conduits housing dangerous flows , to force them onto open ground higher up the 10,948-foot volcano , where they could cool and harden , the lava inexplicably broke onto the surface itself . |
| 7 | The problem seems to be that many women are having a tough time making their mark higher up the career ladder . |
| 8 | Overnight stardom was largely a myth , though some climbed higher up the ladder more quickly , and quite often suffered as a result . |
| 9 | Higher up the wadi , the doctor was already busy . |
| 10 | As the magma approached the surface , the pressure on it would decrease , and the gas in it would expand ; as the gas expanded it would take up more room , and this in turn would force the whole mass to rise faster and higher up the vent . |
| 11 | By strolling up the Waterfall Road one can see first the old Lime Kiln and then higher up the Cranny Waterfalls . |
| 12 | Apparently there must have been very heavy rain higher up the dale because there had been some flooding and the river was running very fast . |
| 13 | While he made his way swiftly but lightly across the boggy ground , giving his feet no time to be drawn down , the men higher up the bank were fastening the rest of the horses to the leash . |
| 14 | They had also spent the previous six weeks familiarising themselves with the country , getting to know especially the lie of the rivers , which would become torrents after the heavy rain that fell in the afternoon and at night during many months of the year , while the same river beds higher up the hills could be dry at times . |
| 15 | Go higher up the chain of command only if the boss 's behaviour is affecting the rest of the staff . |
| 16 | Hauling himself higher up the brass serpent , Yeremi squinted over the helmets of Fists as three Land Raiders roared out across a ramp from the adjacent larger hold , on to a fossilised sea of undulating ebon lava . |
| 17 | The next climb that attracted us was The Magic Line on El Gorro Frigio — a large dome higher up the massif . |
| 18 | Higher up the dome became steeper , but by now I 'd learned to trust the rock a bit more . |
| 19 | His only concern was their future , to help them higher up the ladder ? |
| 20 | But Mr Stein had the backing of some thoughtful advisers , and tried hard to push serious economic and fiscal issues higher up the electoral agenda . |
| 21 | Nevertheless , from what we do know , there can be no doubt that the children 's world of the eighteenth century — at least for those born higher up the social scale than the labouring poor — changed dramatically . |
| 22 | Higher up the school , this work broadened from " library " into " study " skills — summary , pictorial " modelling " etc . |
| 23 | Then ahead of me , higher up the pass , I saw a woman , with a stab of joy in my diaphragm hurried to overtake her . |
| 24 | It avoids one of the most familiar classroom situations in the primary school — the child who comes to you for a word which is already written down higher up the page . |
| 25 | They are a little smaller , club-shaped and covered with a shiny brown fluid which neither hardens nor evaporates , but remains liquid for the three or four weeks it takes the eggs higher up the twig to hatch . |
| 26 | Doggedly , they fly higher and higher up the flanks of the mountains towards piles of immense granite boulders that lie close to the summits . |
| 27 | Higher up the col , almost indeed on the very top , there is the mouth to another gouffre , with a frail wooden fence around it , into which you can with difficulty peer . |
| 28 | Shore crabs , which live higher up the beach , time their activities to coincide with the high tide . |
| 29 | They drove to a point higher up the mountains where the snow was already thick , and Katherine had her first skiing lessons . |
| 30 | Finkelstein ( 1991 ) has argued that this has created a hierarchical view of disability , with groups higher up the hierarchy adopting alienistic attitudes to those seen to be lower down . |