| A lot of the films I've cited as examples are not films you're likely to find in your high-street video rental chain or in the local multiplex. |
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| About the only thing high-street banks have in their favour is a convenient branch network. |
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| A leading high-street bank came up smelling of roses today after switching its energy supply to run on sewage. |
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| One way of changing meat-eating habits for the better could be a return to the independent high-street butcher. |
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| Make no mistake, this is high-street robbery and amounts to usury in all but name! |
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| If you buy and sell shares through a high-street stockbroker, you're paying well over the odds for this service. |
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| A dermatology professor I know maintains that high-street products are often no worse than posh ones, so I would start cheap and work up. |
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| I would never now buy high-street jeans, although I do still go to Topshop for some colour block T-shirts, and I pick up the odd belt in Gap. |
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| Only the British public, with our slavish devotion to high-street spending, hold the key. |
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| The girls' high-street finery, a Lycra mishmash of tat and glitter, sparkles feebly under red, yellow and purple neon strip lights. |
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| The silence from high-street tills could prove deafening as that cash is clawed back. |
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| The British education in high-street curry houses will help them find their way around menus, but after that, preconceptions should be discarded. |
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| Once again, this proves that the tiddlers almost always beat the high-street names! |
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| Shopping in high-street outlets is rarely a smart move, unless you're a great haggler. |
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| They completely redesigned the way they do things, which allowed them to steal a march on their high-street competitors to become a global brand. |
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| In the shop after passport control, some goods were being sold at high-street prices. |
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| Have you ever gone in to a high-street shop wearing a pair of cycling shorts? |
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| The first encounter many will have with the diamond and precious gems industry will be in the plush backroom of a high-street jewellers. |
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| Our moving product presentations are used by multinationals such as Microsoft, IKEA and Nokia as well as independent high-street retailers. |
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| To make ends meet, he sculpted mannequins for high-street stores, discovering plaster and wax. |
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| Most Swiss high-street banks do not require a minimum deposit for an ordinary current or savings account. |
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| Partly it's because you can pick up bargains, but it's also because it provides a welcome alternative to high-street sameness and flat-pack furniture. |
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| We now read that men are to be targeted with a range of pink summer wearables by the high-street fashion chains 'cashing in' on the growing phenomenon of ' metrosexuality. |
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| A line of cocaine is now cheaper than many high-street cups of coffee. |
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| The promotion of an interactive service brand, distinct from that of the individual content providers, strongly suggests that BiB regards its own services as distinct from those of high-street retailing. |
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| These are granted only for projects that have been turned down by the high-street banks, and are accompanied by free support from a business mentor. |
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| International fashion weeks are for showcasing designer talent, and in London, as elsewhere, this means clothes as far as possible from current high-street fashion. |
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| So, just having got some cash from a high-street sidewalk hole-in-the-wall, I accosted the next customer, a man of about 40, trilbied and rain-coated. |
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| Whistle stop When it comes to fun, grown-up high-street fashion, Whistles has it sussed – and this season doesn't disappoint, with floral pyjama suits and block-stripes galore. |
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| With high-street stores desperate to increase footfall and buck the financial downturn, retailers have started issuing discount vouchers. |
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| When they first hit high-street stores, duvets were hailed as the lazy mans alternative to traditional bed linen. |
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| There followed a lousy Christmas season for high-street fixtures like Argos, a catalogue chain, Mothercare, a baby clothier, and Thorntons, a chocolate maker. |
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| A hot sausage roll from a high-street baker? |
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| Conventional monetary policy remains very stimulative, which manifests itself in the unappetisingly low interest rates available to depositors at their high-street banks. |
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| According to market analysts Mintel, the desire for meatier burgers with more exotic toppings has led almost one in 10 to trade up from high-street chains. |
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