Example sentences of "[noun] so high " in BNC.

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1 Will he encourage his right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer to understand that the company car is not a tax-avoidance weapon but an essential tool of British industry and that , if we are to have a strong home-based industry , we do not need taxes so high that Jaguar and Rolls-Royce lose money ?
2 Travel plans have been curtailed so people can focus on the imminent launch later this month and people who have visited Redmond over the last 11 years say they 've never seen the intensity level so high .
3 Travel plans have been curtailed so people can focus on the imminent launch later this month and people who have visited Redmond over the last 11 years say they 've never seen the intensity level so high .
4 With demand for the Diamante and the Starion GTO/Dodge Stealth so high — they share platforms and mechanicals — the UK gets only one version , but it comes loaded with goodies .
5 Trading in dammars , incensewood and rattans sometimes yields financial returns so high that the people abandon cultivation in its favour .
6 With construction costs for purpose-built vessels so high , the hunt was on for production-type boats that would keep within reasonable limits of the budget .
7 Her tall , slender form was tightly swathed in a pink dress and she stepped warily across the uneven boards on white sandals with heels so high and narrow it seemed barely possible that they could support a human being .
8 Mr Faulkner says the caterers are often the first point of contact for conference visitors so high standards of food and service are essential .
9 Wrecked cars and land raiders smouldered along the boulevard under a leaden ceiling so high that utility tubes and power cables seemed to be but a delicate tracery .
10 The flat in West Kensington was really only three large , formerly elegant rooms , with ceilings so high that I often gaped at the room 's proportions , as if I were in a derelict cathedral .
11 Why 's your bar so high ?
12 I said he had guests — a young girl with fair hair , a tall man , a younger girl so high .
13 ‘ I asked ( I was trying to fit in what we 'd heard of him ) about his having passed out of the Ecole Normale so high , which had rather impressed me .
14 The craft workers reached levels of technical skill and artistry so high that some of their works rank among the finest ever produced in Europe .
15 Why is Oxford 's Community Charge so high ?
16 The Young Conservatives involved , intoned Naughtie , a strong note of disapproval in his voice , were mainly Scottish West Coast , former members of the Federation of Conservative Students , a body so high on lager that even Mr Norman Tebbit had been obliged , when Party chairman , to disband them .
17 If the currency is not misaligned , why is Hong Kong 's inflation so high ?
18 I set the stack 's volume so high that it was painful , but with a sound fat and ballsy enough for any rocker .
19 Service industries , like new supermarkets , have increased in the area and while these may not pay better , people prefer the working environment so high staff turnover has put the factory at an increasing economic disadvantage .
20 All around her there were trees — huge , old , their foliage so high that not a leaf was distinguishable .
21 In no other religion are the stakes so high and the choice so momentous . ’
22 With the stakes so high , the lack of atmosphere on the terraces in the first half was a complete mystery .
23 With the stakes so high , the lack of atmosphere was quite remarkable .
24 Is the prevalence of flank pain or macroscopic haematuria in patients with simple renal cysts so high as to justify invasive procedures ( such as removal by surgery or the application of alcohol ) ?
25 Why is the mortality from this commonly used analgesic so high 25 years after hepatotoxicity was first observed ?
26 Cos you have to have it so the gas so high , it must be really boiling hot and you just stir fry the vegetables all round this
27 Many reported the impossibility of securing employment because of lack of experience — with the jobless total so high employers are making a priority of taking on people with experience who do not require subsequent training .
28 With the opportunity cost of capital so high , the Treasury reckons Britain 's remaining public-sector industries ought to appraise their investments against a more realistic yardstick .
29 the world so high like a in the sky .
30 Twinkle , twinkle little star how I wonder what you are , up above the world so high like a diamond in the sky , twinkle , twinkle little star how I wonder what you are
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