Example sentences of "[was/were] high [coord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We had always lived in a healthy country , where the mountains were high and the water was cold and clear . |
| 2 | It was not unsuccessful , but development costs were high and the market was not there . |
| 3 | The fees were high and the atmosphere rarefied . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | In the box the humidity was high and the temperature was maintained at 35°C by a lamp outside and a thermocouple sensor inside . |
| 9 | 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 ) ) . |
| 10 | 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 . |