Example sentences of "[verb] at high [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | EIGHTY years ago tomorrow , on the night of 14/15 April 1912 , the ‘ unsinkable ’ passenger liner Titanic , steaming at high speed on her maiden transatlantic voyage , ran headlong into an iceberg off Newfoundland and plunged to the bottom of the ocean , taking more than 1,500 souls with her . |
| 2 | VHS hi-fi stereo sound , unlike VHS mono , is encoded at high speed along with the picture signals in the same way as Video 8 hi-fi , and hence has the same high standard of audio quality . |
| 3 | Only when they have been roasted at high temperature do the beans turn from green to brown . |
| 4 | It may need hosing at high pressure to get rid of any surface slime . |
| 5 | On the energy efficiency front , expensive internal stair light bulbs at Pollock Halls of Residence have been replaced with more cost-effective compact fluorescent 2D lamps , paying for themselves in 17 months ; a 95% efficiency condensing boiler has been installed at High School Yards in place of a traditional boiler with only 60–65% efficiency ; in the Main Library 5,000 obsolete light fittings have been renewed by half that number with improved light levels . |
| 6 | The liposome bilayer reduces glucose access to the enzyme relative to that of the oxygen co-substrate , ensuring an adequate O2 supply at high blood glucose levels . |
| 7 | Design flaws made it hard to manufacture the thing in volume at 40MHz until recently , although it was originally targeted at high clock rates . |
| 8 | Design flaws made it hard to manufacture in volume at 40MHz until recently though it was originally targeted at high clock rates . |
| 9 | To summarise , then , concentration is a skill you must develop if you are to work at high efficiency . |
| 10 | The engineers said that the O-bahn scores over light railways because the same buses can pick up and drop passengers in local streets before driving at high speed along the busway . |
| 11 | He had been driving at high speed when me helicopter flew past him . |
| 12 | Minutes before three youths had been seen in a car driving at high speed … as they crossed a junction they collided with another car and spun into Mr James . |
| 13 | ‘ What happens at high tide , then ? ’ yawned Gazzer . |
| 14 | The tyres roar at high speed and a faint transmission whine — common on four-wheel drive cars — now joins the 911 cacophony . |
| 15 | Unlike the stag , the tape-recorder did not get tired and when the tape-recorder roared at high rate , the stag roared less . |
| 16 | To make diamond the crystallisation must be done at high pressure , at several tens of thousands of atmospheres . |
| 17 | This commonly occurs at high tide . |
| 18 | This occurs at high pressure . |
| 19 | The days you are here on your own you would use the bed in Andrew 's study and when your husband is here we will do our usual exit from our bedroom in such circs. and sleep ( i ) in A's study ( me ) and ( ii ) in the bunk bed built at high level in our boxroom area or on sitting room floor . |
| 20 | The announcement of the measures comes more than three months after publication of the Holman report , ordered following last August 's event , when several racing boats drove at high speed in fog-shrouded Torbay — two hitting a holiday beach . |
| 21 | Bull and his colleague , Detective Constable Tim Wills , drove at high speed towards north Wales . |
| 22 | Police cars and the police helicopter later trailed the man 's getaway car as he drove at high speed down the M6 and M56 . |
| 23 | Police cars and the police helicopter later trailed the man 's getaway car as he drove at high speed down the M6 and M56 . |
| 24 | Then with a twenty five point chalky eyepiece graticule er the counts were made at high power . |
| 25 | Joins on silver or gold objects made with silver and gold solders can not usually be distinguished by radiography because they are approximately the same density as the metals they join , although they can sometimes be identified by colour difference or porosity when seen at high magnification . |
| 26 | Observers in northern latitudes can never really appreciate how superb the star-clouds really are ; when seen at high altitude they are striking by any standards . |
| 27 | The whirring sound of a tape rewinding at high speed confirmed her guess . |
| 28 | Originally it was thought to give better protection to the crew ejecting at high speed and provide them with a ‘ shirt-sleeve ’ environment . |
| 29 | It is a little more difficult to ski at high speed . |
| 30 | 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 . |