Example sentences of "on [prep] a high " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Joint Security Group takes intelligence about possible forthcoming terrorist attacks — usually provided by MI5 or BfV — and puts Army and RAF units on to a higher state of alert . |
| 2 | The Safrane , Renault 's direct replacement for the R25 , aims to be the icing on the cake and , as such , has to raise the game of the competent but uninspired R25 on to a higher plane . |
| 3 | In 1986 I cultivated new ambitions which took me out of the British orbit and on to a higher plane . |
| 4 | Other than irritating wooo-wooo , the predominant noise was a ceaseless 140-beats-per-minute boom-chi-boom-chi-boom-chi-boom-chi which seems to drive the skaters on to a higher and wilder plateaux of whirling and circling . |
| 5 | Higher earners move on to a higher rate — in 1991/2 , a rate of 40 per cent for that taxable income which topped 23.700 . |
| 6 | Some worksheets may begin with simple lower order questions , leading on to a higher order question . |
| 7 | Instead with every open-mouthed kiss , with every fevered touch , each lifted the other on to a higher and increasingly higher plane of ecstasy . |
| 8 | Then she flew on to a high window-sill and I had to ask the headmaster to bring me a ladder so that I could bring her down . |
| 9 | Someone lifted me up on to a high chair , so that I was close to his nose . |
| 10 | Climbing up on to a high bastion , I looked down over the shimmering interior of the fort and thought of the words that must once have been a set text for the cavalrymen stationed here : |
| 11 | I wonder sometimes where my cousin ended up ; at the bottom of the sea , or washed on to some craggy and deserted shore , or blown on to a high mountain face , to be eaten by gulls or eagles … |
| 12 | The same sort of thing , sadly , goes on at a higher level . |
| 13 | In other words you can have what goes on in the brain at the hardware level does or at the level of nuance does n't necessarily have to correlate with what goes on at a high level description . |