Example sentences of "[be] [verb] at [art] higher [noun] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 On this occasion , Anthony d'Offay made one bid of $100,000 but the reserve had been set at a higher level .
3 Red wines are fermented at a higher temperature than whites to extract colour and tannin from the skins .
4 in severe cases the affected fish may be treated at a higher dose 10mg per litre in a separate hospital tank , for five days .
5 Therefore they need only be made at a higher level of aggregation and should highlight potential peaks and troughs .
6 Valuable coins would naturally be searched for with more energy and so tend to be recovered at a higher rate in ancient times .
7 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 .
8 With stocks running perilously low , the Czechoslovak government on Oct. 6 introduced a fuel rationing system whereby a maximum 25 litres could be bought at existing prices , with purchases over that limit charged at prices one-third higher ( all petrol was to be charged at the higher price from Nov. 1 ) .
9 In any of these cases the set-up is adjudged to be bad and appropriate action will be taken at a higher level .
10 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 .
11 The violins may be doubled at the higher octave by a flute or two with very good effect .
12 Again , er they were talking at the higher reach of our number
13 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 .
14 All teams work on individual specifications , with the interaction and integration being handled at a higher level .
15 SIX YEARS ago San Diego 's police were being killed at a higher rate than the police in any other big American city .
16 Of these claims , 1535 ( 77.2% ) were paid at the higher rate and 453 ( 22.8% ) at the lower rate paid for visits done by deputising services .
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 Evidence from Sweden , where enteriditis has never been found in a poultry flock , shows food poisoning in humans exactly matches the UK profile and , in percentage terms , is running at a higher rate .
20 This interest is charged at a higher rate than a standard loan .
21 If the motor is to operate at a higher speed then the induced voltage is larger and the applied voltage must also increase , so that current flows into the winding over the extended speed range .
22 A few seconds later a second flock was seen at a higher level and directly in the aircraft 's flight path .
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