Example sentences of "the [noun pl] were [vb pp] [prep] high " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 Some of the houses were built on high platforms to protect them from the June floods .
2 The assays were validated against high performance liquid chromatography ( HPLC ) for the LTB 4 assay and against gas chromatography and mass spectrometry ( GCMS ) for the TXB 2 and PGE 2 assay .
3 The plates were developed with high performance thin layer chromatography and read with a scanner densitometer ( Shimadzu CS 920 ) .
4 The trousers were tucked into high boots , and Rostov saw that his son 's eyelids had been stained a shade of silver-blue .
5 Then with a twenty five point chalky eyepiece graticule er the counts were made at high power .
6 The Gods were banished to high places , men were re-created a good deal smaller , and much of the old wild magic was sucked out of the earth .
7 It has been postulated that decompression could irreversibly change the electrical conductivity of rocks by rupturing these films , and that laboratory measurements would not be able to duplicate the high conductivity in rocks even if the rocks were subjected to high pressures .
  Next page