Example sentences of "[vb pp] high [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Johnson Matthey has consistently placed high emphasis on its responsibilities for the environment and on the health and safety of its employees and the community . |
| 2 | In Great Britain , the high cost of the Battle of the Somme had led to the fall of Asquith on 11 December 1916 and to his replacement as prime minister by David Lloyd George , in whose leadership the British people placed high trust . |
| 3 | Pavlov , who was reported to have developed high blood pressure on Aug. 19 and was replaced by his deputy , Vitaly Doguzhiyev , was put under guard in hospital . |
| 4 | Because all known ureilites are much too small to have sustained high energy impact on the Earth , we conclude that they acquired their diamond-lonsdaleite intergrowths when their parent bodies collided with other objects while hurtling through space . |
| 5 | In the meantime , however , he was most keen that the staff of his predecessor — a staff of which he had heard high praise — be retained at Darlington Hall . |
| 6 | Three subsequent laboratory studies , however , have failed to show any overall improvement in recognition sensitivity for films which were given high risk ratings . |
| 7 | Records retrieved only under strong stems would not be given high weight . |
| 8 | The development of the gardens has been given high priority and there is a large variety of named trees and shrubs . |
| 9 | The pleasure principle should motivate the programmes of study , and always be given high priority . |
| 10 | Questionnaires and achievement scores may be used but they are rarely given high priority . |
| 11 | The GLC had given high priority to funding this community centre as a space where lesbians and gays could manage their own social activities . |
| 12 | This structure is likely to include the advance co-ordination of diaries to ensure that all those who should attend can , a visible commitment from partners that the meetings are to be given high priority , the circulation of concise pre-reading in good time , and adherence to a formal agenda . |
| 13 | Using the time after one has gone to bed can avoid interruptions ; 10–15 minutes per child is only a small time out of the whole day and it needs to be given high priority . |
| 14 | PPA members sought to have their ‘ referral schemes ’ adopted and given high priority within the county plan . |
| 15 | Italy was a major donor among European countries and Greece announced that it would make available US$70,000,000 for agricultural development , which was given high priority . |
| 16 | Partly this is because , where political objectives such as employment are given high priority , enterprise management will be judged on the basis of its ability to maintain or expand the workforce rather than on its financial performance ( e.g. Grassini 1981 : 84 ) . |
| 17 | The relationship between B and ratings for the amount of fixed information , however , appears to be unaffected by splitting the data according to accident estimates , r(20)=0.39 across films given high accident estimates , and r(21)=0.39 for those with low accident estimates . |
| 18 | Thus situations which were given high accident estimates tended to show an improvement in memory when risk was experienced . |
| 19 | Nevertheless the Finale is given high definition characterisation , through scrupulously worked articulation , and a fine rhythmic sense . |
| 20 | He criticised ‘ as a policy mess ’ the present position where so many would-be solicitors are prevented from obtaining discretionary awards from local authorities , are unable to enjoy preferential rates under the Government 's student loan scheme , and are finding it increasingly difficult to find places in already hard pressed high street firms who do legal aid work . |
| 21 | ‘ And then , after the war , the newly formed High Council set themselves up as the Time Lords . ’ |
| 22 | That 's not a bad thing , for the Cavalier has earned high praise for its instrument clarity and logical placement of controls . |
| 23 | In some of these the non-assertive quality of the utterance is fairly easy to perceive nevertheless : ( 66 ) He dared as much have opposed his wife 's whims as he dare have committed high treason . |
| 24 | Some authors have reported high sensitivity and specificity values for an ELISA test which , like Biolab Malakit , detects antibodies against partially purified urease antigen . |
| 25 | Of Mice And Men , a new version of the classic John Steinbeck novel , has won high praise . |
| 26 | Page 25 World Markets New York : In mixed trading the Dow Jones average struggled to hold recently won high ground . |
| 27 | They must operate on a good deal less than total information ; 70 per cent is considered high availability for business people . |
| 28 | Severe illness is rightly considered high art . |
| 29 | The pyramidical shape in that year reflected what must now be considered high mortality rates at all ages , and particularly among the very young . |
| 30 | On the business side , it has been a huge success … home to two and a half thousand firms , one in ten of them from abroad … unemployment is below the national average … the high tech city has attracted high tech firms from Japan … bringing a new community and culture . |