Example sentences of "high [noun] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | Simply to contain space , ’ said the television in the poet 's voice , over a shot of him half an inch high striding over the moors . |
| 2 | get on her high horse over abortion . |
| 3 | Storms and high tides over the winter gauged even deeper into the sand dunes . |
| 4 | Case of high anxiety over Harvard 's ‘ kinky shrink ’ |
| 5 | The selection of so many England players was probably arrived at because of their high profile over the past couple of seasons . |
| 6 | The actor John Thaw accepted a public apology and undisclosed libel damages in the High Court over allegations in the People in December 1988 about his behaviour while filming the TV series Inspector Morse . |
| 7 | Simon Brown J. cited no authority for this dictum , so far as it related to the possibility of supervisory jurisdiction of the High Court over the visitors to the Inns of Court , but it was cited to us as an example of a suggested parallel with the supervisory jurisdiction which the High Court undoubtedly exercises in other contexts which in some respects may be thought to be comparable . |
| 8 | ‘ Finally , there is the protection afforded by the supervisory , as opposed to appellate , jurisdiction of the High Court over the visitor . |
| 9 | ‘ Finally , there is the protection afforded by the supervisory , as opposed to appellate , jurisdiction of the High Court over the visitor . |
| 10 | Thus , low figures around London and Manchester TMAs , for example , and high figures over Wales and the Scottish Highlands Answers below |
| 11 | Neither did we know anything of the controversy at high levels over the relative merits of area versus precision bombing , but what we did notice was that during the winter of 1943/44 , morale amongst the aircrews was not exactly at its highest level . |
| 12 | There seems to be a link between these phenomena and the distribution of irregularities in atmospheric pressure and sea surface temperature across a large part of the southern hemisphere at low latitudes.The abnormally high pressures over Australia during the latest drought are part of a changing pattern called the ‘ southern oscillation ’ , a seesawing of pressure between the Australian region and the central Pacific Ocean . |
| 13 | Compressors in heat pumps need to give high efficiency over a wide range of operating temperatures , but those developed for refrigeration tend to be designed for a comparatively narrow range . |
| 14 | After some consideration he decided that he would lie on the railway line and let a train end his life ; he remembered a high bridge over the railway at Kirkston of Philorth , that would do . |
| 15 | Do we really want to go down in history as the generation which sold for a mess of pottage the finest British companies , which have successfully built brand names and franchises of high repute over a century or more … ? |
| 16 | The steep-sided valley of Stroud-Water in Gloucestershire must have presented much the same kind of picture , but Defoe does not attempt any description of it beyond saying that ‘ the clothiers Iye all along the banks of this river for near 20 miles ’ ; and Celia Fiennes passed along the high road over the uplands from Gloucester to Bath and failed to notice it at all . |
| 17 | Wolves and hunting dogs may not be able to reach dramatically high speeds over short distances , but they can run and run . |
| 18 | The unremitting four-mile ascent to the high pass over the ridge reduced me to a walking wet rag ; I was literally soaked to the skin and could feel rivulets chasing each other down my bosom . |
| 19 | However to deliver high concentrates over a moderately large area of irregular equipment a sprayer should be adjusted to a fine jet . |
| 20 | Very simply , persistent high pressure over eastern Australia and across to New Zealand has blocked the passage of rain-bearing low pressure systems and their associated cold fronts northward out of the Antarctic ( Figure 2 ) . |
| 21 | A recent run of glorious days saw the isobars sprawling loosely across the weather map and circling a pool of high pressure over the northern hills . |
| 22 | The Russians are believed to have detected this deployment and fired their shells at a high angle over the heads of the Slavs to hit the Austrians ahead . |
| 23 | The weather did n't help either , high clouds over enemy territory obscured some targets . |
| 24 | of a consistent , high standard over time and location ; |
| 25 | After combining with Gary Millard at a short corner , May lifted a high cross over a crowded goalmouth and Steve Harris stormed in on the far post to hit a great first-time shot into the opposite corner . |
| 26 | Cordless power-tools are doing for woodworkers what Fast Food did for the High Street over a decade ago . |
| 27 | Subsequent analysis showed that in all cases there had been significant changes in the proportions with high dependency over the decade between the censuses after age and sex standardisation ( χ 2 =18.0 , df=1 , p<0.0001 ) , and these changes were significantly different between types of care ( χ 2 =61.2 , df=6 , p<0.0001 ) ( table V ) . |
| 28 | The French gunners opened fire again , this time using short-barrelled howitzers that fired shells in a high arc over the heads of their own columns , and which exploded in small dirty gouts of flame and smoke . |