Example sentences of "become too high " in BNC.
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| 1 | For their part , although the die-hard aristocratic opponents of change were desperately anxious about opening the floodgates , they nevertheless came to see that the price of resistance was becoming too high and might even bring disaster and revolution . |
| 2 | It seems to ignore the way in which existing fares are calculated' including as they do an element of ‘ taper ’ to avoid long journeys made up of several different sectors ‘ bolted together ’ from becoming too high : again something which would be difficult to replicate in a situation where the railways were operated by numerous regional franchises . |
| 3 | If lower temperatures are used , the reducing sugar level may become too high . |
| 4 | As Lester Korn — never at a loss for a quote — told Fortune , ‘ Business has become too complicated , and the stakes have become too high , for a board chairman who needs executive talent to rely on his friends or his friends ’ recommendations . |
| 5 | On the one hand , it is argued that labour costs in advanced countries have become too high to be competitive for many industrial tasks . |
| 6 | Fundamental to the stability of a system of taxation is the level at which people are asked to pay , and the switch from local to central taxation achieved by my right hon. Friend the Chancellor in his Budget was widely welcomed because it recognised that the tax burden had become too high for any system to sustain , and that is why he took steps to reduce it . |
| 7 | Would the wind pressure on the cylinders become too high ? |
| 8 | Under-occupation of large dwellings , particularly by the elderly , can be most undesirable , especially when rates , maintenance and heating bills become too high for those on low incomes . |
| 9 | There is probably some lower limit below which the garage will not go in skimping the service , because the risk of detection then becomes too high ( O'Brien ) . |
| 10 | The sensor , linked to a computer , would alter the engine 's air-fuel mixture when the level of poisonous fumes such as carbon monoxide becomes too high . |
| 11 | With shorter ( and longer ) tubes the gas had to be changed because , with argon , the operating voltage became too high with respect to the mains and control-gear voltages . |