Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [noun sg] high " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reorganization of Army high command |
| 2 | The bungalow huddles , one might even say broods , above an outcrop of ground high above the main road beside which it was built . |
| 3 | It later collided with another car in Quarry High Street.A passenger in the second car , twenty two year old Ginette Wheatley , who 's seven months pregnant , was treated in hospital for minor injuries . |
| 4 | The vegetation cover has an insulating effect in spring , keeping the soil cool and humid and the level of permafrost high ( McCraw , 1960 ) . |
| 5 | This arrangement unfortunately presents a potential for extremely rapid fire growth and provides large surface areas of fuel high above ground level with , in some cases , none other than fixed , pre-positioned means by which a fire fighting strike is possible . |
| 6 | I assure the House that , in all the speeches that I have made at police meetings and conferences this year , I have repeatedly stressed to the police that I want them to give this type of crime high priority . |
| 7 | Therefore some quantity of clay high in calcium content should be placed in the tank bottom . |
| 8 | A fast marching road led from Bainbridge to Cam High Road to meet up with the Roman road running from Chester to Carlisle . |
| 9 | Hill now heads towards the faster European Grands Prix in France , Silverstone and Germany with confidence high , saying : ‘ I can get my teeth into those circuits . |
| 10 | Right across the village muddy figures worked on every rooftop , thrashing walls with brooms in rhythmic sweeps , projecting showers of spray high and wide all around them . |
| 11 | The poverty and hunger in that period was exacerbated by the high import duties on foreign corn which kept the price of food high for the urban working class , and which led to the campaign to repeal the Corn Laws : this success assisted the subsequent development of industry on the foundations laid in this period . |
| 12 | Changes in army high command |
| 13 | North Tees Health Authority 's promotion team took to the streets of Stockton inviting townsfolk to toast each other in vitamin high , but alcohol-free fruit cocktails . |
| 14 | Her first duty was to collect an award in London last night on behalf High Commissioner Sadako Ogata from refugee charity , WomenAid . |
| 15 | The usual pattern of summer high , with June , July and August each having more than 300 readers , and winter low , with less than 200 per month , was observed . |
| 16 | A two night self-drive weekend break from their Winter-Inn programme staying at Les Trois Mousquetaires costs £181 per person high season . |
| 17 | His wife , red spots of anger high on her cheeks , gave him a pithy lecture on the rules of hospitality and gentility , so Corbett , like any good mariner facing a squall , decided he would run before the storm . |
| 18 | We hope to make contact with the many Catholic teachers in state high schools to see if we can organise an RE programme for the Catholic pupils . |
| 19 | A further 10,900 square yard per month high volume multilayer capacity is also available in China . |
| 20 | But the fact that a usually narrow portion of beach is preserved is not an argument against modern erosion by the sea unless there is not even a minor cliff at present high tide level , as there is no means of telling h , ow wide a strip of raised beach has been eroded away by the sea . |
| 21 | We grew up in a world of chainstore high fashion , middle-of-the-road revolution , cover-version original pop music . |
| 22 | If you enjoy a meal where the wine and beer flows freely , then Austrian Classics ’ is just the thing for you , with its combination of champagne high spirits and Biergarten frolics . |
| 23 | They were an awe-inspiring sight , with the sea thundering against great black precipices and hurling shattered sheets of spray high up the face of the rock ; above this turmoil a host of wheeling , screeching sea birds showed white against the cliffs . |
| 24 | Beinn Damh , identified by a conspicuous horseshoe of scree high on its south side , is usually climbed by the long ridge coming up from Loch Torridon . |
| 25 | Work is planned to start next year with confidence high that half of the cost will be met by the Government . |
| 26 | Two days later in the Bay of Biscay we saw a whale blowing a jet of spray high in the air , and I thought of Moby Dick . |
| 27 | Now the soaring trunks had raised this source of food high in the sky , creating a dense canopy that cut out much of the light . |
| 28 | As long as there is an abundant supply of water high temperatures tend to be associated with high rates of weathering , although this does not necessarily result in deep weathering profiles for , as we have already noted , where slope gradients are steep the products of weathering may be removed almost as soon as they are created . |
| 29 | Everyone had said he must stop and examine this Dreadful rock poised on a fingerpad of ground high above the valley like a Damoclean judgement . |
| 30 | The droppings are burnt to provide sufficient heat to power high pressure steam boilers . |