Example sentences of "[noun sg] high " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the amount the tip is moved reveals the height of the protuberance , even if it is only a single atom high . |
| 2 | They can of course pray for them , and to give that prayer high priority . |
| 3 | While numbers of residents available for breeding each year depends on local productivity in previous seasons , numbers of migrant birds are determined partly by circumstances and events on their wintering grounds , where food may be scarce and predation high ; the birds are also considerably at risk during their long flights . |
| 4 | All that was generally required of Gabriel was to point a finger , or spread his arms ; to stand up majestically , or fling himself forward into a flying harness high above the stage . |
| 5 | The release of the ‘ Into Tomorrow ’ single on Weller 's own Freedom High label last year suggested the Cappuccino Kid was about to drop a big one . |
| 6 | In addition high usage of wood for fuel is a major cause of deforestation accounting for 75% of 1983 energy consumption . |
| 7 | The chaplain had displayed a holorama of the Column of Glory , that tower of rainbow metal half a kilometre high close by the Emperor 's own throne room , which was embedded with the armour of Imperial Fists who had died there and during the teleport assault on Horus 's Chaos-oozing battle-barge nine thousand years earlier . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Try any Mexican circus … and there 'll be a man on the high wire with shopping baskets on his feet … the man who started the craze is in Witney this week … fighting a strong wind and a very thin cable high above the big top … a Mexican with the Hungarian State Circus and his English wife . |
| 10 | Then a Chantry High School pupil aged 16 years and 56 days , he became the youngest player ever to play in a league match for the club . |
| 11 | I closed the curtains , went to bed , pulled the blanket high over my head and slept peacefully until I heard through layers of consciousness that unforgettable sound , the voice of the wind . |
| 12 | Jotan 's wife was tall and slim , and there was a birthmark high on her left cheek . |
| 13 | Yeah , ultimately they might wan na end up with erm a mouse driver high but it 's alright . |
| 14 | Through gaps in the forest canopy high overhead , he could see the night sky was tinted crimson , telling him Bethlehem House was still burning . |
| 15 | A KESTREL swooped for a refreshing stop at a waterfall in a little garden paradise high above a busy South London road . |
| 16 | But one aspect of Libyan popular democracy was that the political air was clear , visibility high ; most new controls could be seen coming . |
| 17 | Where a technical problem is of great importance to a buying organisation , its visibility high and its solution difficult , any supplier who can solve it will gain immense bargaining power . |
| 18 | A spokesman for Merton education authority , which is responsible for the three schools — the Ursuline , Ricards Lodge Girl 's School and the mixed Raynes Park High School — said disciplinary action was unlikely . |
| 19 | By 1989 the church was meeting in fortnightly celebrations in Raynes Park High School and at the time of writing the church has grown to a membership of 300 . |
| 20 | Mr Hunt presents a training voucher to Antony O'Brien , of Birkenhead Park High School , and a vocational award to Andrew Jones of A. J. Motors |
| 21 | The tests will be carried out at Queen 's Park High School , Handbridge , Chester , between 9am and 3pm this Saturday . |
| 22 | Are we going to go for fourteen lane high way , or motorway , on the M twenty five , cos if you do , all the roads that lead from it are going to have to be fourteen lane . |
| 23 | And my other dream : Eight foot high puppet Clytemnestra and ten-foot Agamemnon . |
| 24 | Even in the first week of June , when potatoes were a foot high and oilseed rape was in glower , snow fell on high ground , and this makes a difference to what you can grow successfully . |
| 25 | But out of love brought ice-age chill , endless snow wastes where wind tossed smoky columns of snow eighty foot high ; from these mists lumbered a gallery of primitive animals , blood lust and need raging like her soul . |
| 26 | Then lift the front foot high and hook it back into the opponent 's head . |
| 27 | ( b ) Lift the front foot high … |
| 28 | Half-way between the dunes and the water stood a green sign , a foot high , no more . |
| 29 | It is clearly harder work to produce smaller images in metal ; the contorted metal forms in the third-floor gallery , mostly two to three foot high , cost between $40,000 and $60,000 . |
| 30 | The camera followed it down as it walked across her breast ( thirty foot wide ) and past her nipple ( five foot high ) . |