Example sentences of "[prep] the [noun sg] high " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later akroteria are often such flying figures ; it is a natural choice for the position high above the roof and was probably always common . |
| 2 | The Prayer Book debates of 1928 and the arguments over tithes in the 1930s showed that many Unionists still counted the interests of the Church high in their priorities , but the battles were no longer party ones . |
| 3 | There the matter might have rested , but Hodgkinson had to meet Sister Elizabeth , the Headmistress of the Convent High School , to discuss the shared use of the sports facilities . |
| 4 | Before they disbanded , the ministers had one concrete task to fulfil : to appoint a new President of the ECSC High Authority . |
| 5 | Then my father swung me up out of the sledge high above his head and down again , trying to distract me , to make light of what had happened and make me see the funny side of it . |
| 6 | Then , with her back to the door , she sprinkled the rest of the contents of the bowl high into the air and out over the edge of the roof . |
| 7 | GANGSTERS smashed up a new Pepsi factory — to keep the black market price of the drink high . |
| 8 | On Oct. 9 , 1989 , Pinochet carried out a major reorganization of the Army high command . |
| 9 | The words were scrawled on the frontal of the marble high altar . |
| 10 | He slumped inside the cockpit as far as he could , out of sight of the pounding high explosive , protected by old canvas against jagged shell-fragments ; and dimly recognized the familiar sensation of hot urine soaking down his right leg . |
| 11 | ‘ If what ? ’ he urged when Ruth let the sentence trail off like the vapour trail of the jet high in the deep blue sky overhead . |
| 12 | The fall of Vizcaya was preceded by one of the Spanish Civil War 's most notorious actions : the bombing of the Basques ' spiritual capital , Guernica , by the German Condor Legion , acting on the instructions of the Nationalist High Command . |
| 13 | There can be little doubt , therefore , that " the bombing was undertaken at the request of the Nationalist high command in order to destroy Basque morale and preclude the defence of Bilbao " . |
| 14 | Sporadic outbursts of fighting continued , with claims and counterclaims as to who was responsible , and late on June 29 Gen. Marko Negovanovic , a member of the JNA high command , appeared on television to warn Slovenia to stop fighting or face " decisive military action " . |
| 15 | If you want instant access to your money , some of the bank high interest accounts are offering the best terms . |
| 16 | Up to the 1970s it was presumed to be proceeding towards the beech high forest which ecologists believed was the stable climax on limestone . |
| 17 | Presently it was summer , midsummer day , with the sun high and lordly in the sky . |
| 18 | He often went to discuss matters with the Lord High Admiral , James , Duke of York , only to find that the Duke had gone hunting . |
| 19 | Sir John Cockroft , the Director of Harwell , had won a Nobel Prize for his 1932 work where , with the prototype high energy nuclear accelerator , he and Ernest Walton had made the first artificial disintegration , or fission , of atomic nuclei . |
| 20 | There was an owl whose names was Blanche perch bravely on a narrow branch when she asked if she could fly , the others said into the sky high , high , high , so one fine day they came out and stood on a branch all big and stout , she jumped , she thought that she could fly |
| 21 | The upright against which he rested stretched up like a great squared pillar into the ceiling high overhead , white-painted , the simplicity of its design emphasised by the seven pictograms carved into the wood and picked out in gold leaf-the characters forming couplets with those on the matching upright . |
| 22 | The Liberal Democrats ’ leader and their campaign chief , Des Wilson , got into the lift high in the hotel . |
| 23 | The version for SunOS supports all features and functions found in the Aion Development System Version 6.0 , including the Aion High Performance Option for faster and leaner compiled knowledge bases ; relational database interfaces , providing direct access to external databases ; and an application programming interface for linking to external programs , specialised data and different computers . |
| 24 | It then descends in nearly a dozen zigzags , traverses a gorge and continues along the Urnerboden high valley of near-level alpine meadow , crossing the stream which is the cantonal boundary . |
| 25 | Instead she dutifully lifted each weight in turn from the shoulder high into the air , staring steadfastly into her own cow-brown eyes . |
| 26 | The second appellant , who is Hungarian by birth and who does speak some English , was present at the hearing before the deputy High Court judge . |
| 27 | Gen. Jorge Zincke , a moderate who had been appointed deputy commander in November 1988 [ see p. 36346 ] and had worked towards restoring the Army to a professional and depoliticized force , was one of 12 senior officers retired , while seven were promoted ( making a total of 43 in the Army high command , about twice the pre-1973 level ) . |
| 28 | Public revelations in the La Cutufa affair had led to the forced retirement of six generals , including Gen. Hugo Salas Wenzel , third in the Army high command , and 16 other officers . |
| 29 | Letelier , who was replaced by Gen. Carlos Carvallo Yáñez , was moved to perform other tasks in the army high command . |
| 30 | How about life in the Westway high rises . |