Example sentences of "the high [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And the traffic will be so congested at this time of afternoon , you 'll hardly get down the High at all , and it 's clouding over , and Felicity should acclimatize herself before she goes out , particularly since Magdalen is so cold at this time of — ’ |
| 2 | Those two John and Andy you were the highest on that John what are your views on that ? |
| 3 | In fact , they say that the increase in confidence has been the highest for some years . |
| 4 | Turnout was 7% higher than in 1988 , and was in fact the highest for this set of authorities since local government reorganisation in 1973 . |
| 5 | With 36 per cent of the manual workers ' vote in 1987 the party 's share of the working-class vote was the highest for any post-war election . |
| 6 | The death toll in Punjab was almost 4,500 in 1990 , the highest for any year . |
| 7 | Last year saw attendance figures of 32,000 , the highest for any fair world-wide with the exception of Maastricht ( 35,000 in 1992 ) . |
| 8 | A similar picture emerges when prison admissions are considered , with the United Kingdom in 1987 imprisoning 347.9 people per 100,000 , the highest for any major member state of the Council . |
| 9 | I had thought that high crime was dog-earing and the highest of all writing comments in the margin . |
| 10 | At the far end is the great mass of Vignemale , at 10 , 820 feet the highest of all the peaks on the actual frontier , though a little less high than some of those in Spain . |
| 11 | Figures are presented for Surrey , with the lowest GRE per head of any Authority , for three Authorities with fairly high assessed expenditure needs of around £500 per head ( Cleveland , Knowsley and Waltham Forest ) , and for two Authorities with among the highest of all assessed needs , at about £675 ( Hackney and Westminster ) . |
| 12 | Bits and scraps about policy and plans are often attributed to high sources , including the highest of all in health politics , Hillary Rodham Clinton . |
| 13 | Invisible receipts as a percentage of GNP are the highest of all for the UK with 20.5 per cent compared with 4.8 per cent for the US and 5.6 per cent for Japan . |
| 14 | From a stile in the top corner of the enclosure containing the boulders a short climb brings the summit ridge of Norber underfoot and a glorious view over Clapham Bottoms to Ingleborough , from the highest of many cairns at 1320 feet . |
| 15 | All hotels and guest houses listed in this brochure comply with a Tourist Charter which sets standards which are amongst the highest of any resort in Britain . |
| 16 | In the 1980s , age-specific fertility rates in class I over age 25 were the highest of any group ( figure 4.15 ) . |
| 17 | His Government have , after all , lifted the tax burden on the British people to the highest of any Government in history . |
| 18 | DELYN Borough 's planning department received 42 appeals against its decisions last year the highest of any district in Clwyd . |
| 19 | DELYN Borough 's planning department received 42 appeals against its decisions last year the highest of any district in Clwyd . |
| 20 | The highest of these peaks , Wagagai ( 14,177ft/4321m ) , is in Ugandan territory and officially out of bounds , but our map showed the international boundary passing through the summit of the second highest peak ( just 20 metres lower than Wagagai ) , called Lower Elgon , so we decided to stay legal and aim for that instead . |
| 21 | I climbed the highest of these one day when Mallaig was too crowded with visitors for my liking and suffered my only experience of hostility from a Highlander . |
| 22 | The highest of these levels produce the long-term stability and progressive improvements in efficiency of the specific decision units lower in the system . |
| 23 | The key of this record will be the highest in that block , which usually corresponds to a track on a disk . |
| 24 | The Liberal Democrat share is up to 22 per cent , the highest in any survey since the campaign began . |
| 25 | Pakistan 's score was the highest by any side in a Test in Pakistan , surpassing the 561 they made against New Zealand in 1955-56 , and the highest in matches between the two countries . |
| 26 | The higher on this scale , the better the machine performs all round . |
| 27 | Solon divided the citizen body into four classes on the basis of wealth or property ownership , and while most important political offices were confined to the higher of these classes , the lowest class were entitled to attend the Assembly or Ecclesia , and to make up the juries who decided both on guilt and innocence and on sentences in the courts . |
| 28 | The opportunity cost of using Ingredient X to produce Abrasive is the higher of these two opportunities ; that is £30,600 . |