Example sentences of "[verb] at a high [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | If digit 4 develops at a high concentration , digit 3 at an intermediate concentration , and digit 2 at the lowest concentration , then one can visualize how both the normal and mirror-image patterns arise . |
| 3 | Surely someone moving toward the light ought to measure it traveling at a higher speed than someone moving in the same direction as the light ; yet the experiment showed that both observers would measure exactly the same speed . |
| 4 | The incumbent 's output starts at a high level and gradually declines , whilst the entrants ' output starts low and gradually increases the more it discovers about the market . |
| 5 | This approach does however force the wireframe modeller to work at a higher level of understanding than exists in most present systems . |
| 6 | If we want to work at a high level of stress , however , anywhere near the potential strength of glass for instance , we must be prepared to keep the surface free from even the most microscopic cracks for , if even one crack is allowed to exceed the Griffith length , which may be only about a thousand Ångströms , catastrophic failure will occur . |
| 7 | For history 2 , the best fit occurs at a higher climate sensitivity , as the global forcing is not as great . |
| 8 | Erm I mean the if you , if you 're looking at erm at er at , at , at the costs on that erm I mean do you , do you think that er er that that 's a reasonable sum to , to actually put aside ea each month to provide that sort of protection or , or perhaps you ought to be thinking of , of looking at a higher figure . |
| 9 | Accelerated by the current economic recession , old manufacturing industries are disappearing while the new information technology based industries are developing at a high rate . |
| 10 | If the money had been spent on social and industrial problems then the American economy might well have grown at a higher rate than it has , and technological innovation might have been more rapid in areas which directly contribute to trade . |
| 11 | If the exotic is what you seek , you might try Omar Khayyam from India , made from Ugni Blanc , Pinot Blanc and Chardonnay , grown at a high altitude in the Sahyadri mountains near Bombay , and vinified by a former winemaker of Piper Heidsieck . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ David and Gary , in particular , are proof that playing for Queen 's is no barrier to progress at a higher level . |
| 14 | One group on low income who will lose out consists of those people living in areas where the poll tax is levied at a higher rate than the Government calculates , and who in consequence will have to meet a 20 per cent poll tax bill that is larger than that calculated by the 20 per cent met by the Government . |
| 15 | Therefore they need only be made at a higher level of aggregation and should highlight potential peaks and troughs . |
| 16 | A few seconds later a second flock was seen at a higher level and directly in the aircraft 's flight path . |
| 17 | It was expected that these would be first seen at a higher value of the exposure and that in every case a roughly linear graph segment would follow the point at which the subject was fully seen . |
| 18 | And er we played at a high tempo and we passed it and really dominated the rest of the game but our finishing could have been better . |
| 19 | But you should descend at a higher rate so as to reach 2500ft before you turn . |
| 20 | He was also a reformer and builder ; his reforms were far-reaching in administration and law while the arts flourished at a high level . |
| 21 | Now with it being , we 're not gon na look at a high margin straight away cos I know that 's a waste of time . |
| 22 | Where an offer is made to shareholders and shares are sold at a higher price than the original offer , the compulsory bid is deemed to be revised , again ensuring that shareholders are treated equally . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | But if the tentative claims for attention of deep , albeit hazy , personal beliefs are consistently ignored , clarity has been bought at a high price : damage to integrity and the loss of real satisfaction . |
| 25 | Theory is no substitute for practical experience and this experience is often only bought at a high price . |
| 26 | He suggested that the Government were engineering or conniving at a high level of unemployment . |
| 27 | ( Some would have already recovered the development value of the land by selling at a high price ; others may never have wished to develop their land , and , indeed , might even have bought it for the express purpose of preventing its development . ) |
| 28 | Well actually pottery is covered in a thin layer of glass , so that when your pot is dipped into the glazed solution , it 's simply a suspension of silicone in water which ride on the surface , to leave a powder , which is really finely ground up sand , when you put that into the kiln to fire at a higher temperature it mystifies it , it turns into glass , now it 's |
| 29 | 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 . ’ |
| 30 | Peter Coni , chairman of the Stewards , announcing the new rules yesterday , criticised a growing number of top crews for entering lesser events at Henley ‘ rather than showing the ambition and confidence to try to win at a higher level ’ . |