Example sentences of "[vb past] a high [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The president was well informed on both the oil industry in Colombia and LASMO 's involvement in it , but it was rock and roll which provided a high point at the end of the meeting when Lord Rees presented him with a specially acquired gold disc of his favourite group , the Rolling Stones . |
| 2 | INDIA 'S Supreme Court suspended a High Court ruling blocking a bribery case probe of a 1987 arms deal with AB Bofors of Sweden |
| 3 | Also linen is a more valuable product for which they charged a higher sale price . |
| 4 | Although her house was frequently burgled , she maintained a high standard of hospitality . |
| 5 | Although they did not quite reach the same heights , Ann Welsh ( Liverpool ) and Claire Swift ( Sefton ) maintained a high standard in the under-17 race over the same distance , with the Liverpool girl taking the honours in 4–39.0 against her rival 's 4–40.4 . |
| 6 | We also maintained a high level of special needs training — over 20% of all provision . |
| 7 | Nehmad maintained a high profile throughout the session , keeping his eye firmly on the currency board and bidding on a number of other lots including Maria-Helena Vieira da Silva 's ‘ La Ville Fermee ’ ( lot 320a , est. £60,000–80,000 ) which he lost to a French dealer for £62,000 . |
| 8 | Harry Martin maintained a high profile in the town , attending every major function , but there was little written about his business dealings . |
| 9 | He said police maintained a high profile on the road at all times , but could not be everywhere at once , adding cardboard cutout cars should be considered . |
| 10 | Whereas Cipriani , in all his dealings , retained a high degree of honour , albeit confused , those that superseded him after 1938 , heralded in a period that is recognised by some as the nadir of political life in Trinidad . |
| 11 | As expected , he found a higher correlation between the economic indicators and vocational schooling than general secondary schooling — but only in the developing and not in the affluent countries . |
| 12 | Our indings are similar to those of Giaffer et al but contrast sharply with those of the Cambridge group who found a higher occurrence ( 83% ) of food related symptoms in their patients and a longer remission in those identifying food intolerances . |
| 13 | They found a high degree of positive relationship between areas of faulting and abnormal meteorological events , including UFO activity . |
| 14 | We recently found a high correlation between luminal lytic activity and in vivo colonic proliferation as determined by lysis of erythrocytes and H-thymidine incorporation , respectively . |
| 15 | A study of elderly hospital inpatients with iron deficiency anaemia found a high incidence ( 16% ) of dual pathology when both the upper and lower gastrointestinal tracts were examined . |
| 16 | It may even be possible to obtain approval from opposing groups for a set of moral maxims such as peace , justice , and freedom — see the lists of values in McKernan 's ( 1980 ) research , for which he found a high level of acceptance among both Northern Ireland communities . |
| 17 | We found a high level of assessment activity by community nursing staff using structured questionnaires . |
| 18 | A survey in one Edinburgh hostel found a high rate of mental disorders ; schizophrenia was diagnosed in 26 per cent , organic brain disease or lifelong mental handicap in a further 15 per cent , serious alcohol abuse in 9 per cent . |
| 19 | Recently Hadengue et al reported a higher prevalence of 2% in 507 patients with portal hypertension . |
| 20 | In 1876 he built a high water tower , topped for a time with a telescope . |
| 21 | Though in fact the development did not proceed , the use of the SDO procedure for such a purpose involved a high degree of central involvement in local planning decisions . |
| 22 | Both studies , however , are not strictly comparable as we used elemental diet for at least four weeks and had five day introduction cycles with reintroduction of once only identified foods whereas Alun-Jones et al used diet to symptomatic remission only , had a daily introduction programme without repeat exposure to suspect foods , and in one study used a high fibre diet in the control group . |
| 23 | Some systems which had performed well during the war with Iraq — such as the M-1 battle tank and the F-14 and F-16 fighter aircraft — received a higher level of funding than that requested in the Bush budget . |
| 24 | In that sense investigations received a higher priority as a result . |
| 25 | The mail-shot received a high response rate of over 43% — 13 replies from 30 enquiries — so a higher number of negative responses was expected , bearing in mind that people are generally swifter to complain than to praise . |
| 26 | The term ‘ peppercorn rent ’ related to the time when the spice commanded a high price , although such a charge nowadays is generally disregarded . |
| 27 | It is interesting that wives aged under 45 suffered a higher mortality rate than unmarried women prior to World War I , and that the difference is not explicable solely in terms of maternal mortality . |
| 28 | None thought it deserved a higher chart placing . |
| 29 | And erm but with a man coming in over the harvest , they were working hard and long hours every day and they demanded and they deserved a higher wage . |
| 30 | LORD ALDINGTON , a former deputy chairman of the Conservative Party and Warden of Winchester School , was falsely branded a war criminal on the scale of the worst butchers of Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia , his counsel , Charles Gray QC , told a High Court libel jury yesterday . |