Example sentences of "have [verb] high " in BNC.

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1 Their fear was that taxes would not only have to remain high but might well have to increase .
2 Wherever they were , they would have been bombarded with radiations ; and as the primitive atmosphere was different in composition from that of today , and in particular would have lacked an ozone layer , they could well have received higher doses of radiation than they would today .
3 If workers had been in the vicinity , they would have received high doses of radiation .
4 I pulled my skirt up a little but he said he 'd have to see higher than that to make sure my legs were n't bowed at the knees so I did as I was told .
5 Higher taxation on the scale proposed by Labour — and it will probably have to go higher still — is a depressant , the last thing that is needed .
6 This meant that on average a girl would have to obtain higher examination marks than a boy to secure a place at such a school .
7 But routine screening of milk for contaminants should have disclosed higher lead levels by mid-October .
8 In some of these the non-assertive quality of the utterance is fairly easy to perceive nevertheless : ( 66 ) He dared as much have opposed his wife 's whims as he dare have committed high treason .
9 Later , a second change permitted these tax benefits to be offset against income that would otherwise have attracted higher rates of tax .
10 The Government should never have used high interest rates alone .
11 Its shallow water formations include grainstones which must have had high primary porosity and permeability , and the sequence is also expected to contain dolomites .
12 But I should have got higher if I 'd been stopping .
13 Workers had an interest in producing goods and higher management knew about production — how else could they have become higher management ? — and so if the two got together all the crises would be resolved .
14 This in turn could have brought higher incomes for farmers , and , since they constituted a significant section of the consuming population , a consequent increase in their demand for manufactured goods .
15 Officials from all US exchanges have thwarted further derivatives industry regulation which might have entailed higher costs and lost business to overseas exchanges .
16 Conservative taxation policies may have reduced high marginal income-tax rates , but it was the rich who benefited , not the country as a whole .
17 R.A.F. records about the special mission and the destination in the Morvan tally with those of the S.A.S. Apparently reports from the two other aircraft suggested to the air force authorities that the plane might have hit high ground , since the cloud-base was very , low .
18 They might have gone higher but this is a matter of principle .
19 As you shall see in the next section , the predominance of hydrogen in Jupiter means that it does not have to have high interior temperatures to be liquid .
20 Because they are more likely to default on repayments , they would have to pay higher rates of interest than older married couples with small families .
21 On present form , some will not provide a big enough payout to clear off the loan , so you may have to pay higher monthly premiums to make up the shortfall .
22 In most cases you have up to 56 days interest-free credit but if you miss the deadline , you 'll have to pay high interest rates of up to 30 per cent .
23 This would have commanded high interest rates but these might , on precedent , have been subsequently lowered .
24 It would also have meant higher administrative costs which would have had to have been borne by charge payers .
25 To attract money the government will have to offer higher interest rates on bonds .
26 If such low citations were offset by high publication rates for thesis-derived research , then they should have achieved higher rankings in the table above .
27 On the other hand , over-reliance on an open labour market also had disadvantages involving the amount of time taken to recruit extra workers , the need to train new entrants and the possibility that firms may have to bid higher wages to attract labour .
28 Buyers who have paid high prices do not discover that they could have obtained the same goods at lower prices ; sellers who have sold for low prices do not discover that they could have obtained higher prices .
29 The yacht will hold its speed well , but as it slows you will have to head higher to regain speed .
30 Desktop publishing , as I explained earlier , does not have to involve high powered layout software .
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