Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] at high [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The deduction has implicitly assumed that ta ; /L is small ; since the instability producing the fingers occurs at high Rayleigh number ( cf. |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Most military personnel were members of the CPSU or Komsomol , and military figures appeared at high levels in party organizations . |
| 6 | High fields permit experiments to operate at high densities , and the higher the density the better the confinement time . |
| 7 | This need not be the case for water boiling under the low pressures experienced at high altitudes . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | To understand the processes occurring at high Rayleigh number , it is helpful to look at the mean temperature distribution across the layer . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 11 | At first , Charles found only 150 clansmen , all of them Macdonalds , waiting to greet him but then the distant skirl of bagpipes was heard and the Camerons , 700 or 800 strong , came down the hillside in orderly columns , escorting the prisoners captured at High Bridge . |
| 12 | The tyres roar at high speed and a faint transmission whine — common on four-wheel drive cars — now joins the 911 cacophony . |
| 13 | When speed sailors sail at high speeds ( 39 knots is the current record ) they have their sails in a close hauled position although they are sailing on a broad reach . |
| 14 | This makes it possible to study samples isolated at high dilution in an inert matrix of a solid such as N 2 or Ar . |