Example sentences of "by a high " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stouts today are not exceptionally strong — usually in the low 1040s OG — and are distinguished by a high hop rate and by their jet black or dark brown colour achieved by the use of roasted malts and unmalted roasted barley . |
| 2 | The back garden was a small square of lawn bordered by rhododendrons which , in turn , were surrounded by a high wattle fence . |
| 3 | The house is surrounded by a high wall . |
| 4 | The warm , dry summer of 1989 was a particularly good breeding year for hares , and was followed by a high autumnal ‘ die-off ’ . |
| 5 | The following morning , Arty was taken by ambulance to the huge Victorian red-brick pile on the edge of town — a massive structure set well back in the fields and surrounded by a high wall to protect the sensibilities of the sane from too close a confrontation with one of society 's more disagreeable problems . |
| 6 | Interestingly in that duet Parrott has only one countertenor-Timothy Wilson again-with the second part taken by a high tenor , John Mark Ainsley . |
| 7 | From 1624 to 1640 Dutton bought up the land round Sherborne Park in order to create a deer park , to be enclosed by a high wall . |
| 8 | Once famed as ‘ Baghdad by the Bay ’ in the days when such an appellation was a compliment , San Francisco has gone the way of many major U.S. cities and is burdened by a high number of homeless and beggars , and rising crime . |
| 9 | The recent development of cooperatives in Greece has been seriously hindered by a high degree of central control ; there may be a danger that similar problems will arise in Italy . |
| 10 | Without warning the air was split by a high pitched banshee wail , rising and falling on a sliding scale of pain that would have made the slates fall off the roof if there had been any . |
| 11 | The putative father of a boy of two was ‘ banned ’ by a High Court judge from seeing his child ‘ grow up ’ because the boy 's mother planned to marry another man and in the words of Mrs Justice Heilbron ‘ The boy might suffer emotional upheaval by having two fathers ’ ( The Times , 23 March 1988 , p. 3 ) . |
| 12 | Likewise , she expects the children to operate intuitively in their make-believe , but she believes the intuition can be a refined instrument , accompanied by a high degree of awareness , at its best , bringing about reflection on what one experiences even as one experiences it . |
| 13 | The principle behind the fifty millesimal scale is the raising of the remedy 's dynamic strength whilst reducing the duration and intensity of its action by a high degree of dilution . |
| 14 | If so , the restoration of the OR seen in these circumstances need not necessarily imply a change in the specific ability of the target stimulus to evoke its UR ; rather it may mean that even a weak tendency to emit this UR can be amplified substantially by a high level of arousal . |
| 15 | In red brick and white stone , it had a façade of great length matched by a high tower which reached up to the light which its name celebrated . |
| 16 | The pool was large for a private one , lying at the bottom of a vast expanse of immaculate lawn and surrounded by a high yew hedge which effectively hid it from all directions ( unless you were on a horse or a double-decker bus ) . |
| 17 | This led into another thoroughfare , the far side of which was bordered by a high brick wall in which two iron gates were let , seemingly at the top of Spring Street , and giving entrance to a drive leading to a substantial red-brick house . |
| 18 | The manager of the Ljubljana branch of the Belgrade Bank has revealed that he was asked by a high official of the National Bank of Bosnia and Herzegovina to purchase 3 billion dinars of Agrokomerc bills of exchange ( Politika , 27 August 1987 ) . |
| 19 | This part of the subtle body can be photographed by a high voltage technique called Kirlian photography . |
| 20 | Isolation groove 7 may be filled with insulation or replaced by a high resistivity region . |
| 21 | Where the lawn narrowed as it skirted the side of the elegant house , it was traversed by a high lattice fence complete with ornate archway . |
| 22 | The old-style playground , tarmac covered , bereft of trees , shrubs , grass and gardens , bounded by a high wall or fence , may be the only outside play space for some groups . |
| 23 | The patio was bounded on the road side by a high flint wall which , to the south and east , curved to little more than four feet to give an unimpeded view across the headland to the sea . |
| 24 | In France , by contrast , there was a polarisation of skills , characterised by a high level of expertise among the managerial cadres and technicians , and a very low proportion of skilled craftspeople among the shop-floor workers . |
| 25 | Mr King , who was sacked from the group 's board in November 1989 following a problematic £629m management buyout eight months earlier , was told by a High Court judge that he had carried out his duties correctly . |
| 26 | The rapid-growth progressive phase , characterised by conversion growth and a high loss rate due to instability and immaturity , will eventually settle in the marginal phase , in which the institution is maintained by a high level of biological growth and a lessening appeal to non-members . |
| 27 | The path was narrow and rough with tussocky grass and she trod carefully , eyes straining ahead to where the path ended abruptly at the outer limits of the aerodrome , blocked by a high steel-mesh fence — a cruel fence to keep lovers apart — and no one else had discovered the break in it through which Rob always came . |
| 28 | According to an official document obtained by AI , Dorje Wangdu was accused of ‘ advising his acquaintances to wear Tibetan clothes ’ ; ‘ making copies of ’ a ‘ reactionary leaflet ’ ; and distributing ‘ symbols of personal protection ’ ( cords blessed by a high lama ) to monks in Ganden monastery as a token of respect . |
| 29 | The document also stated that ‘ reactionary leaflets ’ which had been circulated in Sera monastery in Lhasa were found at Dorje Wangdu 's home and that he had ‘ distributed symbols of personal protection ’ ( amulets blessed by a high lama ) , brought ‘ from abroad ’ , to monks in Ganden monastery . |
| 30 | Much research into early Anglo-Saxon England is accompanied by a high degree of innocence , with time-honoured methods being applied despite their failure to deepen understanding of man 's past ; techniques applied to other periods tend to be excluded as though they are not relevant to an historic period . |