Example sentences of "high [conj] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even having made a commitment to the climb , the option of retreat is always open if you sense the temperature is too high or the snow conditions dangerous . |
| 2 | Is it that the overall proportion of Management to staff is too high so the balance is being put right ? |
| 3 | They practised in the living room on psalms and Shakespeare , sometimes the pitch rising so high that the Widow Smith feared her much-favoured gentleman paying guest and that charming but coarse Jenkins boy might be arguing . |
| 4 | Hopes are high that the Government will kick-start the economy with a two-point cut in rates to 6% . |
| 5 | He knew that although Ulthuan could probably win a war in the bleak northern lands , the cost would be so high that the Elf realms would never recover . |
| 6 | But what happens if the traditional route out of the slums is effectively barred , or if unemployment is so high that the underclass is offered no hope ? |
| 7 | And hopes are high that the river could soon be the venue for a powerboat world championship event . |
| 8 | The temperature had risen so high that the uranium fuel , and the graphite surrounding it , was literally burning . |
| 9 | But there were also two major objections to Skybolt : it was the most expensive of the air mobile options ; and the Americans pointed out that the technological risks were so high that the project might well fail . |
| 10 | In 1828 , for example , when Coleman was sadly in need of an operating theatre , the various builders ' estimates were so high that the project was abandoned ‘ for the time being ’ . |
| 11 | But in the case of nitrogen , which can exist as nitrates and nitrites , the surface temperatures are so high that the amount retained in such repositories must be small compared to the amount in the atmosphere . |
| 12 | With inflation the cost of stocking a small farm , quite apart from the value of the land itself , is so high that the tax imposition will make it virtually impossible for a farmer to pass on a flourishing farm to his son . |
| 13 | It is important also to note that we are not implying that any major catastrophe will occur should the stress level continue to rise so high that the glass spills over . |
| 14 | Instructions had gone out from on high that the boat was not to be rocked , and Margaret Thatcher was as good as her word . |
| 15 | The chances are high that the trouble stems from a false assumption . |
| 16 | The cost of maintaining the waterway through the war on reduced Polish trade from the Russian and Austrian partition lands had been so high that the waterway had gone into decline . |
| 17 | Iran entered reservations , on the grounds that this level of overall output was too high if the reference price target was to be achieved . |
| 18 | Secondly , the transaction fees will need to be quite high if the investment made by Reuters and the CBoT/CME of between 40 and 50 million dollars is to yield a positive return . |
| 19 | The proportion of premature births was almost three times as high if the interval was less than a year . |
| 20 | The first is that initial support of 60% is not high if the policy turns sour — if , for example , a war lasted more than the few days or weeks that Mr Bush seems to think it will take . |
| 21 | The arrival of a pulse sends the output at IC2 pin 3 high and the timing capacitor C9 begins to charge through resistor R10 . |
| 22 | In no other religion are the stakes so high and the choice so momentous . ’ |
| 23 | The driving standards were extremely high and the event was enjoyed by all who attended . |
| 24 | This means that because the capital outstanding is highest during the early months of the loan , the amount of interest payable each month is relatively high and the capital repayment low . |
| 25 | This means that because the capital outstanding is highest during the early months of the loan , the amount of interest payable each month is relatively high and the capital repayment low . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | At low frequencies the signals do not have much carrying capacity , but go too high and the oxygen and hydrogen molecules in the atmosphere can actually vibrate in sympathy with the radio waves , absorbing the signals . |
| 28 | Prices are often excessively high and the lack of union bargaining rights at most venues does not lead one to believe that the profits are being re-distributed among the workforce . |
| 29 | The sceptics argue that the cost of running rail services will prove too high and the return too low for the private sector . |
| 30 | It was noted that the localiser deflection sensitivity of the No. 1 VOR was set too high and the flag alarm settings on both the localiser and the glideslope were such that the flags would not appear even when the signals were unusable . |