Example sentences of "[be] high and [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 All the above codes and standards require the discharge of large quantities of water where the racks are high and the hazard rating of the goods is high also .
2 The participation rate has been high and the method of eliciting responses , which identifies individual reactions and then tests them out in two other contexts , has produced a reliable collective record of student experience .
3 The main cloud base should be at least 2000 feet above the highest ground in the region , the freezing level must be high and the visibility should be good .
4 Some who are still young enough plan a baby without a husband , but the cost to the mother will be high and the cost to the child , who has no choice in the matter , may be even higher .
5 In these times of internal e-mail ( the business communication level ) expectations are higher and the sort of exchange subtly different .
6 We had always lived in a healthy country , where the mountains were high and the water was cold and clear .
7 It was not unsuccessful , but development costs were high and the market was not there .
8 The fees were high and the atmosphere rarefied .
9 By contrast , median RNR levels were highest and the dispersion greatest where all adult members were of working age and there were no dependent children present .
10 As the peasants put it , " God is high and the tsar is far away " .
11 If the materials used to build walls , roofs and other parts of a building allow water vapour to penetrate , then condensation can occur within the structure as well as on its surface if the air 's moisture content is high and the structure 's temperature is low .
12 The standard of proof for Permanent Total Disablement payment is high and the fact that weekly benefit has been paid for the full period should not be regarded as intent to make a Capital Benefit payment .
13 High numbers tend to be recorded on days when the demand for travel is high and the weather conditions offer no deterrent but may be unseasonal .
14 Hardness is high and the pH is 8 .
15 Conversely with a low gear ratio the effective load inertia is high and the motor accelerates slowly , but has to reach a relatively low stepping rate to move the load at a satisfactory speed .
16 ‘ The calibre of Highways ’ staff is high and the Department has quite rightly become known for its imaginative initiatives including CLARENCE and the many road and traffic improvement schemes throughout the Region ’ said Graham Bowie .
17 The giant king crabs choose nights when the tide is highest and the moon full .
18 But to begin with it will cover only 70 per cent of the country , excluding large chunks of the south coast where the cost of air time is highest and the pressure for competition greatest .
19 Therefore , the evidence supports a positive connection between volume and volatility for a particular commodity , although another commodity may have a general level of volatility that is higher and a volume that is lower .
20 You will be better off purchasing larger but more expensive Neons , because although the smaller ones are cheaper , the death rate is higher and the cost of replacing them will obviously increase the overall cost .
21 It was considered triple-purpose : the big oxen put to the plough , the cows milked and the steers fattened to feed ( specifically ) the mining and industrial areas of the Midlands and south Wales ; the meat was produced in large joints but the proportion of bone to meat was high and the bone coarse .
22 Only the roof of the Commandant 's hut was visible over the high wooden fence that was the boundary of the Factory compound , but the fire was high and the smoke higher .
23 When you looked up too long without blinking on a day when the sun was high and the blue saturated the sky evenly and deeply from the horizon to the zenith , and closed your eyes , what you saw then was fire , crisscrossed with rivulets of blood .
24 In the box the humidity was high and the temperature was maintained at 35°C by a lamp outside and a thermocouple sensor inside .
25 At baseline plasma prorenin was higher and the ratio of active renin to prorenin concentration lower in the subjects included in the study than in 22 controls of comparable age ( 426 ( 449 ) ng/l v 207 ( 75 ) ng/l ( p=0.04 ) and 0.040 ( 0.046 ) v 0.126 ( 0.047 ) respectively , ( p=0.0012 ) ) .
26 Statistics were enclosed showing that the average student fee per class meeting ( 12.45d. ) was higher and the teaching costs at least 50% greater in the Eastern than in any other District .
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