Example sentences of "at the high [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most early plantation development was at the higher elevations , especially in the central highlands , which covered parts of Kandy , Nuvara Eliya and Badulla districts . |
| 2 | At the higher frequencies chosen , the cells need to be made much smaller but have the benefit that the telephones can be built to need a great deal less power . |
| 3 | At the higher values of the Richardson number , the turbulence may be thought of as random superposition of internal waves ( Section 15.4 ) . |
| 4 | If anything these somewhat stereotyped complaints sound not unlike the protest of agrarian society at the higher wages and extravagant consumption patterns of the industrial sector , at the dissolute habits of miners and the St Monday custom observed by many artificers . |
| 5 | It was used in a similar way by the newly literate or semi-literate Bolsheviks at the higher levels of the Smolensk and Kursk guberniia party organizations , as can be seen from even a cursory reading of their minutes . |
| 6 | At the higher levels of education scientists , economists and others who may play a future role in policy making , research and administration must be helped to understand the problems of disadvantaged areas in relation to society and the economy as a whole . |
| 7 | I am prepared to argue that doing business involves , even at the lower levels in an organization but especially at the higher levels of management , semantic problem-solving ; for example , agreeing on boundaries , identifying individuals , establishing and maintaining classifications , conjecturing ways of doing things that belong in no existing formal schema . |
| 8 | At the higher levels , humans in the prime of life can hear noises up to about 20,000 cycles per second . |
| 9 | Both came to lead theoretically revolutionary parties , which they staffed at the higher levels with relatives or friends from their home region . |
| 10 | At the higher levels of government , candidates are usually selected by the top leaders themselves , another element of ‘ top down ’ power , making the actual election process little more than a ‘ rubber stamping ’ exercise . |
| 11 | At the higher levels , the syllabus is necessarily more complex and in Directions , the fourth book in the series , the standard unit format is the double page spread . |
| 12 | These are picture-based at the earlier levels , and text-based at the higher levels . |
| 13 | The police force in Korea was controlled by Japanese at the higher levels but included appreciable numbers of Koreans : in 1930 Korean police officers represented approximately 40 per cent of the total force of 18,811 . |
| 14 | The proportion of women in higher education has risen sharply in recent decades — one of the most visible gains in the egalitarian struggle — although in practice young female school-leavers are still less qualified than their male counterparts ( and this signifies , in this country , a truly parlous state of readiness for adult occupations ) ; while in the teaching profession itself , women have yet to achieve anything like parity at the higher levels , as college heads , directors of departments and university professors . |
| 15 | However , at the higher levels of attainment , boys are still achieving proportionally far better results than girls and are participating more . |
| 16 | I do not know whether the pattern which we see in this country — of significant differences between girls and boys appearing only at the higher levels of achievement — would also apply to the SIMS data . |
| 17 | Full academic robes will be worn by the students at the Higher Awards Ceremony which will be held in the college hall in Cleveland Avenue tomorrow . |
| 18 | Conversely if the samples stored at the higher temperatures show little or no change , it may be possible to reduce the frequency of , or even omit , certain of the scheduled examinations at lower temperatures . |
| 19 | At the higher temperatures the plant becomes straggly . |
| 20 | For most motors the static torque/rotor position characteristic exhibits a rapidly diminishing return in terms of torque produced as the phase current approaches its rated value [ see Fig. 3.1(a) ] , indicating that magnetic saturation or the stator and rotor teeth occurs at the higher currents . |
| 21 | The groups at the higher points on the diagram — that is , those with higher median levels of RNR — consist of households in which the elderly live with younger people and it is one or more of the younger members who own or rent the home . |
| 22 | ‘ At the end of the day the money has to be found and there must be an acknowledgement at the higher echelons of British Rail that Chester is a major tourist destination and deserves a station to match . ’ |
| 23 | They would operate from roomy vicarages with ample grounds and were welcome guests at the highest tables in their parishes . |
| 24 | During the 1950s and early 1960s , retirement at the statutory pensionable age of 60 for men and 65 for women became widely established across occupations and social classes , although least at the highest status-levels . |
| 25 | We expect heating of the ambient ionospheric electron gas in response to the precipitation of solar wind plasma , and the plasma density data ( not shown ) reveal that weak density increases emerge within the events late in their lifetime , at the highest latitudes . |
| 26 | In the next Chapter , for example , it is shown that the system requires a large forcing resistance to operate at the highest speeds and in most cases the total phase resistance is then much greater than the optimum for electromagnetic damping . |
| 27 | When a motor is operating at the highest speeds the current in each phase may not even reach its rated value before the excitation interval finishes and the phase is turned off . |
| 28 | The second factor shows that at the highest speeds the pull.out torque is inversely proportional to the supply frequency and that , as before , a large total phase resistance improves the high speed performance . |
| 29 | At the highest speeds the phase current is low , so the voltage drop across the series resistance is small and the applied voltage balances the induced voltage . |
| 30 | For higher speeds the load angle d increases until at the highest speeds it approaches 90 degrees . |