Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] at the high [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The very least he must do is to swallow his pride and seek advice and help from fellow English managers at the highest level . |
| 2 | Further , he offered to provide Judge Ireland with irrefutable proof from his personal contacts at the highest level in London . |
| 3 | The Prince acknowledged their greetings as he and his favourite sat in the two great throne-like chairs at the high table . |
| 4 | band A , B or C in four approved subjects at the Higher grade , or |
| 5 | They would operate from roomy vicarages with ample grounds and were welcome guests at the highest tables in their parishes . |
| 6 | Communications director Peter Phelps said : ‘ The media and political communications side of the company has shown particular growth and we are working with major clients at the highest levels , helping them to achieve their aims and ambitions . ’ |
| 7 | Not until the Sino-Japanese war of 1894 – 95 , perhaps not until the Russo-Japanese one of a decade later , did any Asiatic state become a true actor on the stage of world affairs , a subject rather than an object in international relations at the highest level . |
| 8 | His term of office covered periods of world turmoil , and his papers reflect complex negotiations at the highest level of statesmanship throughout that time . |
| 9 | The noise was intense , constant chatter , voices raised in argument , an air of expectancy , even tension , as everyone pretended to be involved in what was happening around them but secretly watched the great ones at the high table . |
| 10 | Stephen Sedley was continuing his opening speech on the second day of a damages action against British Nuclear Fuels at the High Court in London . |
| 11 | ‘ It was very hard for me to take , ’ said the Amstrad boss , who was greeted by a small throng of angry fans at the High Court each day . |
| 12 | Mrs Bauwens will seek a retrial of a case that cost £250,000 over seven dramatic days at the High Court . |
| 13 | His institute claims the record for growing bananas at the highest altitude using passive solar heating alone , among other more widely applicable examples of energy efficiency . |
| 14 | His prestige , like Aethelberht 's before him , could now find further expression in the diffusion of the new religion among the territories subject to him and through his personal participation in ecclesiastical affairs at the highest level . |
| 15 | Mrs Margaret Ashton , aged 30 , who woke during a caesarean operation in 1980 at Billinge hospital , near Wigan , was awarded £21,000 agreed damages at the High Court in Manchester . |
| 16 | He was standing on the exposed rocks at the highest point of the headland ; the ground fell away steeply from here , mostly bare rock and scrub , with just a narrow shelf of land that was almost a beach down at the water 's edge . |
| 17 | It was used in a similar way by the newly literate or semi-literate Bolsheviks at the higher levels of the Smolensk and Kursk guberniia party organizations , as can be seen from even a cursory reading of their minutes . |
| 18 | The White Paper recognised that unscrupulous landlords might be tempted to harass existing tenants to force them out of the property , which could then be let to new tenants at the higher market rent , and in an effort to prevent this , the harassment provisions of the 1977 Protection from Eviction Act were strengthened and a new right of compensation — civil law damages-was introduced in cases of unlawful eviction . |
| 19 | After lengthy discussions at the highest level it was decided that because of the confidentiality of the information , and since most of the authorization procedures were already within the personnel function , the responsibility for the new system should be vested within Personnel . |
| 20 | In today 's preliminary hearings at the High Court a 36-year-old farmer and 25-year-old X-ray technician both claim a right to asylum under the 1951 United Nations Convention Relating to Refugee Status on the ground that they have a well-founded fear of persecution if they are deported . |