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

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1 Thus treatment with salt ( or with freshwater for marine fish ) , formalin , quaternary ammonium compounds , malachite green , and antibiotics for example can be given at high dose for short duration , making them more effective against the disease organisms while offering a better safety margin to the fish through shorter contact time .
2 Various kinds of metals should be heated , long iron bars , short iron bars , silver bars , copper bars , etc. should be heated at high pressure and low pressure , high temperatures and low temperatures , and so on .
3 To make diamond the crystallisation must be done at high pressure , at several tens of thousands of atmospheres .
4 It had been hoped that the station would be reached at high speed by tunnel from east London , but getting to St Pancras from the Channel route would involve a tortuously slow route over a heavily congested suburban line .
5 Witnesses say the rover seemed to be travelling at high speed .
6 Each day in the Thames Valley police area more than sixty cars are stolen , many of them to be driven at high speed by teenagers , the so-called joy riders .
7 The disadvantage of rope or parafil is that it can not be retrieved at high speed without the friction overheating and burning the material .
8 These are immensely useful for some operations , and a number must be retained at high readiness .
9 He then rebuilt and re-erected the beam engine at his father 's mill and invented the weft fork , later adopted universally , which enabled looms to be worked at high speed .
10 the conference will not be held at High Leigh but Swanwick .
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