Example sentences of "at high [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were , in fact , many Irish Americans in United Motors at high management levels , all of whom had a nostalgic affection for the ‘ auld counthrie ’ , and indeed for anything Irish ; but that was because most of them had never actually been there . |
| 2 | Hauxley and Hadston beaches for cod to 8 lb , best results at high tide . |
| 3 | Mills were often built on an estuary where the water could be trapped upstream at high tide by sluice gates . |
| 4 | ‘ What happens at high tide , then ? ’ yawned Gazzer . |
| 5 | ‘ He 'll drown at high tide , ’ said Marie . |
| 6 | ‘ At high tide . |
| 7 | It learns the relative positions of the pools at high tide , when it can swim over them . |
| 8 | A ‘ clow ’ was a flap-valve to stop flood-water rising back up the ditches at high tide . |
| 9 | Sea conditions are often very choppy , particularly at high tide with an onshore wind which makes sailing well very difficult . |
| 10 | This commonly occurs at high tide . |
| 11 | River water is ‘ captured ’ at high tide by a barrage , and the controlled ebb then turns the waterwheel to drive the machinery . |
| 12 | It was not , of course , private — simply a patch of sand directly beneath four Winds , where the rocks jutted out on either side so that it was screened from the rest of the bay and , at high tide , sometimes cut off from it . |
| 13 | Alternative routes at high tide leave the coast at Easton Bavents and Green Heath , Covehithe . |
| 14 | Penzance has fine views of St Michael 's Mount , a fairytale castle built on an island reached at high tide by boat and at low tide by a causeway , which is owned by the National Trust . |
| 15 | St Michael 's Mount , 2 miles away , can be reached by foot when the tide is out or by motor launch at high tide . |
| 16 | At high tide later the same day it was covered to a depth of three feet , and the following week , it was covered to a depth of 14 ‘ ft ‘ , so salvaging the Croydon was out of the question . |
| 17 | We used to call them ‘ ebb-sleepers ’ because they were usually found resting on the rocks at high tide in small groups , each bird apparently asleep with its beak tucked under its scapulars . |
| 18 | Accommodation on Fregate was in chalets thatched with palm leaves and situated on the top of the beach so that at high tide you could almost jump into the sea from your window . |
| 19 | At high tide this is sea filled and access is only possible by swimming across . |
| 20 | They were 35-foot-long grey whales , who were subsequently seen wallowing in the shallow water at high tide scooping mouthfuls of sand off the beach and straining out the abundant ghost shrimps from it . |
| 21 | The reason we built it on this particular spot is this is the ash flurry from the boilers from the bottom there of the er power station and er it 's contents of slurry dried out , dried out and graded , well once nice and flat like this it gives the bird an ideal opportunity to at high tide and they can see around , there 's no vegetation , it 's very bad ground , and er , that is load of ducks , a good numbers of er oystercatchers , they do n't sometimes , which is really nice and so easy to count them now cos when the tide is out and you 've got the , the mud flats of course they 're spread out , now they 're nicely condensed down here , so it 's great , great little position for us you know , that 's all courtesy of the bottom of the boiler , you know , you know , give us this nice |
| 22 | That being the case , the breeze she felt was probably being caused by air which had got in at low tide being forced out at high tide . |
| 23 | It should not be assumed from these statements that they do not move at all-they can be quite active at high tide by night but that they remain within the same general area of shore . |
| 24 | The earliest stage in the formation of an offshore feature is the deposition of a bank of sand , which may ultimately emerge at high tide . |
| 25 | Later , if sufficient material accumulates and the bank is not completely destroyed at high tide , various plants colonise the sand and trap further wind-blown material . |
| 26 | ‘ From what I 've seen , I imagine there must be about five feet of water in the basin at high tide . |
| 27 | The second or third lots of clients sent along by Pinkie , an insurance broker and his wife , who wanted somewhere to give occasional parties in summer , at high tide only , were very much taken with Dreadnought . |
| 28 | Three pound fifteen shillings yeah and that 's how , that 's how the work went at that time but as I say these boatmen erm they used t they used to sit down on lock gates day in and day out and did n't have a ship to come in but I 've kno kno known them to row down the river at high tide or it 's before high tide and there 'd be another erm , there 'd be other boatmen there , one was called , he went down , he used to go down and get 'em going , there used to be a race between these two families or the and the first one got the boat , the first one roped it in you see , or wh what we call roping in , moor mooring the ship up , that was |
| 29 | At low tide you can cross the bays on the beach but at high tide you have to go inland , a lot further round so timing is important — we got it wrong once or twice ! |
| 30 | The result has been that sea walls have had to take the brunt of the power of waves and currents at high tide , which erodes them and requires rebuilding on an ever larger scale . |