Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] at high [noun] " in BNC.

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1 His interest in physics developed at high school in Washington State where his family moved in 1953 .
2 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 .
3 The whirring sound of a tape rewinding at high speed confirmed her guess .
4 From then on , anything that loiters in front of the entrance runs a risk of being knocked flying by the owner of the den exiting at high speed .
5 In the Jerusalem Campaign , they supported the attack on Mughar and the brilliant charge of the Bucks , Dorset and Berks Yeomanry kept the Ambulance employed at high pressure .
6 Aerial work pilots such as crop-sprayers , aerial photographers , power-line inspectors etc. have to give great concentration to their work and have little opportunity to scan the sky for aircraft approaching at high speed .
7 Dawn 's life was saved because two trained paramedics , travelling in the opposite direction in their private ambulance , noticed the sports car travelling at high speed , then realized it had crashed , and turned round to offer help at the scene .
8 The deduction has implicitly assumed that ta ; /L is small ; since the instability producing the fingers occurs at high Rayleigh number ( cf.
9 Image charge ionic bilayer lattice formed at high K .
10 With the scum playing at high flying Newcastle , a win could possibly move us to within single digit points range of the scum whose fans incidently are becoming more insufferable with every day that passes .
11 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 .
12 The magnitude of this decrease is a measure of the strength of the molecular dipole involved in the relaxation , where ε o is the static dielectric constant related to the actual dipole moment of the polymer and ε∞ is the dielectric constant measured at high frequencies .
13 Nicola Jones , 15 , was riding nine-year-old Ballyveamore along a country road at Bryniau , Dyserth , when she saw a blue Ford Transit approaching at high speed .
14 He felt he should be watching the road from behind the curtains , waiting for the badmen to arrive at High Noon , while in the background a voice intoned ‘ Do not forsake me , o my darling ’ .
15 Anyway , to Mickey the East was where his Uncle Dick and Aunt Mavis live at High Burnton out towards the coast . ’
16 This device should more accurately be described as a freewheel , the intent of which is to allow the blades to rotate at high speed while the motor is idling or stopped .
17 Originally it was thought to give better protection to the crew ejecting at high speed and provide them with a ‘ shirt-sleeve ’ environment .
18 Most military personnel were members of the CPSU or Komsomol , and military figures appeared at high levels in party organizations .
19 High fields permit experiments to operate at high densities , and the higher the density the better the confinement time .
20 Further work on the carbon-electrolyte system is needed to ascertain whether the effect is connected with a carbon-water interaction or possibly the formation of carbon-sodium intercalation compounds at high temperature and pressure .
21 This need not be the case for water boiling under the low pressures experienced at high altitudes .
22 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 .
23 Dark panelling ; tall glass-fronted bookcases full of great leather-bound books ; solid brown furniture ; shabby plush chairs ; shabbier plush curtains hanging at high sash windows , and several very new watercolours of sailing vessels in gilt frames which looked uncomfortably out of place on the sombre walls .
24 To understand the processes occurring at high Rayleigh number , it is helpful to look at the mean temperature distribution across the layer .
25 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 .
26 Unlike the stag , the tape-recorder did not get tired and when the tape-recorder roared at high rate , the stag roared less .
27 In the 1 H NMR spectrum of d ( TG 4 T ) we observe two sets of six aromatic proton resonances ( Fig.1 c ) , with one form predominating at high temperature and the other at low temperature .
28 This was the old tradition followed at High Bridge End , St. John 's in the Vale , and referred to also at Langdale and Outgate .
29 ‘ How futile to announce that some great lead to thought was going to emerge from the mountain of memoranda discussed at high pressure by exhausted delegates . ’
30 The interpreter operates at high speed : in simultaneous translation ( strictly speaking , simultaneous interpreting ) , he keeps roughly a sentence behind the speaker ; in consecutive translation ( interpreting ) the speaker waits for the interpreter to translate anything from a morpheme to a whole paragraph at a time .
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