Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] high " in BNC.
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| 1 | It does not seem to bother them that their chances of survival are low , but then only the most crazed Goblins would want to be propelled high into the air anyway . |
| 2 | The size of the weighting factor can be chosen to reflect the importance we attach to an objective , but the use of this linear form implicitly assumes that the weights should be independent of the solution and does not permit one to model , for example , the proposal that profits should be given higher priority relative to exports when profits are low than when they are high . |
| 3 | Does the Minister agree that agriculture would be given higher priority and better consideration if it were dealt with by a Minister in this House ? |
| 4 | Agreed Herbarium labels to be given higher priority in MP 's work programme . |
| 5 | The Justice Ministry would be given higher profile , and a Defence Ministry would be created . |
| 6 | If tourism is to be properly recognised as Scotland 's largest employer , and recognised for the very considerable revenue that it brings into the country , it must first be given higher priority within the Scottish Office itself . |
| 7 | The pleasure principle should motivate the programmes of study , and always be given high priority . |
| 8 | This structure is likely to include the advance co-ordination of diaries to ensure that all those who should attend can , a visible commitment from partners that the meetings are to be given high priority , the circulation of concise pre-reading in good time , and adherence to a formal agenda . |
| 9 | Using the time after one has gone to bed can avoid interruptions ; 10–15 minutes per child is only a small time out of the whole day and it needs to be given high priority . |
| 10 | Records retrieved only under strong stems would not be given high weight . |
| 11 | Families may be placed high in these hierarchies for a variety of reasons — because they have brought with them the high status they had in their villages , because they have acquired status by helping new families settle here in the fifties and sixties and kept them in a state of perennial obligation , because they have gone up in class and ( as a Sikh woman in Newham told me ) ‘ claim status by pretending to be ultra-devout and criticising others who are less so . ’ |
| 12 | To the CBI 's worries about the future of the inner city is added a very real concern that business services may be placed high on the list for cuts by budget-chopping local authorities . |
| 13 | For the evangelistic gift to emerge within the life of the local church , evangelism must be placed high on that church 's list of priorities . |
| 14 | To get the most brilliant tone , then , out of a combination of woodwind and brass , the flutes and clarinets must be placed high ( but the clarinets rarely higher than G in alt. ) , the oboes in their medium , and the bassoons in their bottom register . |
| 15 | A 50 per cent preference for residential care might be considered high , but it should be remembered that the dementia sufferers in this sample were mainly already in the advanced stages of their illness , and also that only 3l per cent of the principal carers were spouses , and it is among spouses that the highest preference for home care appears ( see Gilhooly , 1986 ) . |
| 16 | The pyramidical shape in that year reflected what must now be considered high mortality rates at all ages , and particularly among the very young . |
| 17 | Also strewn across the complicated ceiling with the prism ports , obscuring whole sections of the barrelled structure , fume ducts writhed like immense square-flanked metal snakes , their grilled , barred mouths sucking the kitchens ' vapours away to be vented high in some converted turret . |
| 18 | Vines can be lifted high off the ground to avoid frost ; dropped as low as possible to benefit from heat reflected by stony ground at night ; generously spaced along the rows to attract the sun and avoid humidity ; or intensively cultivated into a canopy of foliage to avoid too much sun and encourage humidity in dry areas . |
| 19 | Now is the time for God 's banner to be lifted high in that country . |
| 20 | The Government took the opposite view ; but now they have decided that it must be made high profile again . ’ |
| 21 | As we have seen , the legitimizing institutions together with established and indeed aspiring subject groups share the vested interest in the belief that ‘ a scholarly discipline ’ is needed if a school subject is to be granted high status . |
| 22 | But those barristers retained to represent the Government — called Treasury Counsel — are very likely to be offered High Court judgeships in due course . |
| 23 | After his wife died , Howard again took to travelling ; but Cardington was now firmly established as his base and he had sufficient esteem in the eyes of his neighbours to be appointed High Sheriff of Bedfordshire in 1773 . |
| 24 | Lady Martin Fitzalan-Howard of Brockfield Hall , Warthill , near York , has become the first woman to be appointed High Steward of Selby Abbey since it was founded in 1069 . |
| 25 | At a minimum they will be accorded high prestige since they exemplify and personify common values . |
| 26 | It is also clear that reading must be accorded high priority in inner-city schools and that teachers in those schools need support in this endeavour . |
| 27 | Unfortunately , instead of being integrated in a general hospital as planned , the wing will now be left high and dry . |
| 28 | When the battery is first connected , the buzzer may sound if Q happens to be left high ( i.e. set ) due to the race condition mentioned earlier . |
| 29 | ‘ It 's all very well to plan for next year 's holiday or a new home but there 's litle point if your family would be left high and dry by the death of the breadwinner . ’ |
| 30 | Should the nobility refuse to cooperate , the monarchy would be left high and dry and the monarch himself would be unlikely to survive . |