Example sentences of "they [verb] high [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Medical and veterinary faculties ( for which the competition was high , the numbers limited ) could lay down that candidates would not be considered unless they got high grades in physics , chemistry and biology at A level . |
| 2 | This does indeed seem at first sight to demonstrate that some of people 's most vivid , detailed and enduring memories are precisely the memories they have about situations in which they experienced high levels of emotional arousal . |
| 3 | They develop high humps on their backs . |
| 4 | They expect high levels of performance . |
| 5 | I esteem the devoted service given by our royal family because they provide high standards clear of petty politics in an age when voluntary respect for authority — which is the foundation for democratic peace and social discipline — has been seriously undermined . |
| 6 | In future the processes may be ozone friendly but they involve higher temperatures which could damage fabrics containing PVC . |
| 7 | They involve higher derivatives and are therefore somewhat less easy to apply than the Alfrey approximation . |
| 8 | Recognising that relocation may have a worse effect on married staff than on single workers , it is not unusual to find that they receive higher allowances . |
| 9 | When the remainder of the ex-Croydon E/1s were next overhauled , they received higher dashes and light timber framed vestibule windscreens like the rehabilitated cars , but were not otherwise altered . |
| 10 | They received higher dashes , and high metal sheeting round the upper decks and probably long cushioned seats inside . |
| 11 | When , however , some women did wish to join the larger societies in the 1870s , the societies found their doctors unwilling to treat women unless they paid higher contributions than men , on the grounds that women were more often sick and would make heavier demands on their services , which thus would be of greater benefit to poorer women . |
| 12 | Although Browne says that the bulk of suppliers follow market leaders , Hoskyns Plc , AT&T Istel , and Electronic Data Systems Corp , he believes that unless they concentrate on niche markets or certain technology sectors , such as personal computers and distributed systems , they face high risks and low margins . |
| 13 | With fertilisers the same crops can be grown year after year on the same fields and still they give high yields . |
| 14 | They left their scars on park and copse ; they raised high walls of earth across the meadows — ’ your railroad mounds , vaster than the walls of Babylon , ’ Ruskin called them ; they brutally amputated every hill on their way . ’ |
| 15 | Why do they have higher rates than Whites in these areas ? |
| 16 | They understood high standards . |
| 17 | If , as is possible , the optical company was in a monopolistic or oligopolistic position , they could afford to adopt work practices which were actually rather costly even though they gave higher levels of satisfaction to both workers and management . |
| 18 | They would see a precipitous rise in taxes even though they had high outgoings and despite the fact their income was barely above the combined average earnings for two adults ( approximately £35,000 ) , or even below it . |
| 19 | They had high opinions of their value on stage , which made them rather undisciplined . |
| 20 | The doctors told me they had high hopes that in a year you 'd have made a full recovery . |
| 21 | The committee of inquiry found that many of the teachers they met held the view that Afro-Caribbean pupils ‘ inevitably caused difficulties ’ and were unlikely to achieve in academic terms , although they had high expectations of their potential in sport and the expressive arts ( Rampton , 1981 , p. 13 ) . |
| 22 | It seems that most who enter care do so because there appears to be little alternative because they require high levels of care . |
| 23 | ‘ People who have skills in one authority are likely to be accepted in another unless they have higher standards of training and qualifications , but it is too early to see any pattern , ’ he says . |
| 24 | They have high costs which are likely to remain so because of the need continually to upgrade facilities and amenities for spectators to retain Test match status for their grounds . |
| 25 | Understandably they have high hopes . |
| 26 | Furthermore , because of the concentration of the Communist vote in certain traditional strongholds , they have high hopes of holding on to some 20 of their present 26 parliamentary seats , whereas the National Front and the Greens may not win any , or at best only a handful . |
| 27 | We will also , of course , imagine that they have high expectations of us . |
| 28 | They have high expectations when they come here and sometimes feel anything less than perfection is a failure . |
| 29 | They need high temperatures to be effective ; stop-start driving of the sort prevailing in European cities does not suit them ; the planned three-way catalysts are ‘ poisoned ’ if leaded petrol is used ; they add 10 per cent to fuel consumption . |
| 30 | In the first place they need high temperatures : the mean annual temperature should not fall below 18° C ( 65° F ) , and they grow best with temperatures between 25 and 29° C ( 77 and 84° F ) . |