Example sentences of "[be] [verb] at a high " in BNC.
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| 1 | Accelerated by the current economic recession , old manufacturing industries are disappearing while the new information technology based industries are developing at a high rate . |
| 2 | which is burnt off when the whole thing gets fired in the kiln , so what will have to happen is the , your pots you 've done so far , once they 're thoroughly dried and go into the kiln , they 're fired at a high temperature and then they 'll come out this bit fired you 'll then separate them with oxide pastes , dip them into glaze , which I 'll explain in a minute , and re-fire them at a higher temperature , the glazed would |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | On this occasion , Anthony d'Offay made one bid of $100,000 but the reserve had been set at a higher level . |
| 6 | Red wines are fermented at a higher temperature than whites to extract colour and tannin from the skins . |
| 7 | However , it appears that when the measurement both of the disorder and of the type of event are attempted at a high level of specificity , then more specific correlations are revealed . |
| 8 | in severe cases the affected fish may be treated at a higher dose 10mg per litre in a separate hospital tank , for five days . |
| 9 | Therefore they need only be made at a higher level of aggregation and should highlight potential peaks and troughs . |
| 10 | Valuable coins would naturally be searched for with more energy and so tend to be recovered at a higher rate in ancient times . |
| 11 | The choice does not have to lie between unanimity and a simple majority of the partners : frequently the required majority will be set at a higher level than 50 per cent plus one to reflect the importance of the matter under discussion . |
| 12 | You are never far away from the decision-making in this kind of work , so you learn how to manage a whole range of areas and can be involved at a high level relatively quickly . ’ |
| 13 | However , by using a good catalyst a reaction can be run at a high rate and at a lower temperature , thus saving energy . |
| 14 | The need for flexibility also implies equipping the men with the best weapons , so R&D must be continued at a high level . |
| 15 | However , the functional analysis enabled areas of commonality to be identified at a high or general level , showing how and where the two departments interacted . |
| 16 | In any of these cases the set-up is adjudged to be bad and appropriate action will be taken at a higher level . |
| 17 | The decision as to how detailed a breakdown of costs is required is crucial and should only be taken at a high level in the management structure . |
| 18 | Once goods had been brought to a European port , they could be re-exported at a higher price to other European countries that had no direct trade across the sea , so a good many of the calculations about trade were concerned with re-exporting goods which had not been processed into an improved form but were simply being sent to a place where they commanded some additional scarcity value . |
| 19 | As a result US interest rates had to be kept at a high level . |
| 20 | However , if the Revenue 's approach represents a new hardening of attitudes that will affect all small family companies , then this matter ought to be explored at a high level by the appropriate professional body or be taken through the courts by a consortium of practitioners . |
| 21 | For instance , demand management might require that government spending should be held at a high level to keep the economy at full pressure , while Labour 's plans also called for a high level of State spending . |
| 22 | It is essential that RBGE continues to co-operate with these bodies , and that we are represented at a high level in those international bodies which are active in taxonomic database work |
| 23 | So if there 's any er er erm thought that the er ombudsman complaints were running at a high level as far as this committee 's interest were concerned , I can confirm that that is n't in fact the case . |
| 24 | The photographs were taken at a high water level . |
| 25 | It 's blood that 's being lost at a high rate , it 's dangerous whatever ver vessel it 's coming from , so you will stop it by pad , pressure and elevation , you will attempt to reduce the loss of blood and assist the formation of a clot , once you 've assisted in the formation of a clot , by putting the pad on it , would it be sensible to have a little peak to see how it 's doing ? |
| 26 | Indeed , it indicated that the companies deemed by Kearney to be unsuccessful users of information technology were investing at a higher rate that the successful ones . |
| 27 | All teams work on individual specifications , with the interaction and integration being handled at a higher level . |
| 28 | SIX YEARS ago San Diego 's police were being killed at a higher rate than the police in any other big American city . |
| 29 | It is worth noting that whereas profit shares in manufacturing fell over the period , in the financial sector they were maintained at a high and even rising level [ Brown and Sheriff , 1978 ] . |
| 30 | Strains with improved insecticidal activity have been produced in our laboratory by partial plasmid curing — so that the remaining genes are expressed at a higher level — and by transconjugation to produce new combinations of plasmids , giving a desirable activity spectrum . |