Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] at a high " in BNC.
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| 1 | Theory is no substitute for practical experience and this experience is often only bought at a high price . |
| 2 | It was clear from the work done then that , even after a full year , major changes in unemployment , self-employment , and employment taken up and ended within the group , were still occurring at a high rate . |
| 3 | It is not yet clear how many criteria teachers and others can be expected to manage , or find useful , but the limited amount of research and observation which has been conducted in this area suggests that teachers do not always work at a high level of detailed information . |
| 4 | ‘ Personal development is , we believe of key importance to ensure that motivation is always running at a high level . |
| 5 | Jackie lived at a high pitch , he was making hay while the sun shone , he was spreading himself thin with a young family and as many interests as he could cram into the year ; for someone always highly strung , always working at a high pitch of nervousness , an ulcer was the logical consequence . |
| 6 | In 1940 , Mannheim concluded : ’ Where unemployment and crime both stand at a high water mark , it can safely be assumed that the latter is largely due to the former . ’ |
| 7 | I explained , however , that because her arousal had clearly remained at a high pitch during uninterrupted lovemaking , she had indeed experienced a multiple orgasm . |
| 8 | The 5-ASA did not affect any cytotoxic activity significantly whereas ADCC and lymphokine activated killer activity were slightly decreased at a high 5-ASA concentration . |
| 9 | Earnings have consistently risen at a higher rate than prices , widening the gulf between the incomes of working people with average wages , and those dependent on state benefits . |
| 10 | During the year , SCDI hosted many such meetings and a few of our guests were The number of visitors to the Scottish Council from overseas continued at a high level . |
| 11 | During the year , SCDI hosted many such meetings and a few of our guests were The number of visitors to the Scottish Council from overseas continued at a high level . |
| 12 | Moreover , at the beginning of such crises the production of consumer goods either remained at a high level or actually continued to increase . |
| 13 | To express four proteins in the quadruple vector we selected the genes that were either expressed at a high level in insect cells ( eg , VP2 , VP6 , VP7 , NS1 ) by single expression vector systems or can be assembled into a morphological structure in a native configuration ( 10 , 16 , 17 , 19 ) . |
| 14 | It therefore boils at a higher temperature . |
| 15 | Such an ability would be of more than merely theoretical interest : there are specialists , detectives one might almost say , who can take enormous quantities of program in a lower-level language ( not binary numbers , but normally machine code or something a little ‘ higher ’ ) and make plausible guesses as to what they actually do at a higher level of description ; or rather , given that they are told what the program was designed to do , work out how it accomplished the task and by what ‘ higher-level ’ steps . |