Example sentences of "be [verb] 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 pleasure principle should motivate the programmes of study , and always be given high priority . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Records retrieved only under strong stems would not be given high weight . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | The pyramidical shape in that year reflected what must now be considered high mortality rates at all ages , and particularly among the very young . |
| 12 | The Archive 's location in a university which has a reputation for excellence in social research ensures it is perceived to be upholding high standards . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | My social worker says that I should n't be gettin' high , because it damages the immune system . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Now is the time for God 's banner to be lifted high in that country . |
| 17 | The Government took the opposite view ; but now they have decided that it must be made high profile again . ’ |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | But those barristers retained to represent the Government — called Treasury Counsel — are very likely to be offered High Court judgeships in due course . |
| 20 | Why stay rooted to the spot while some shaman with a drum machine picks your pocket when you could be flying high with Coil ? |
| 21 | If the fashion pundits are to be believed , this Wild West look will be riding high on the beach next summer . |
| 22 | Marie-Christine must be riding high in local esteem , Sabine thought as she parked her car in the square , and walked up the steps to the mairie with the other guests . |
| 23 | Consistent with this , the results of recent research on Kuwait oil fires indicate that the smoke did not appear to be rising high enough to reach the stratosphere , where transport may occur over considerable distances with soot particles remaining for months . |
| 24 | ‘ While engaged in watching the movements of the several species of the great family of Procellaridae , which at one time often and often surrounded the ships that conveyed me round the world , a bright speck would appear on the distant horizon , and , gradually approaching nearer and nearer , at length assumed the form of the White-headed petrel , whose wing-powers far exceed those of any of its congeners ; at one moment it would be rising high in the air , at the next sweeping comet-like through the flocks flying around ; never , however , approaching the ship sufficiently near for a successful shot , and it was equally wary in avoiding the boat with which I was frequently favoured for the purpose of securing examples of other species ; but , to make use of a familiar adage , the most knowing are taken in at last ’ ’ ; one beautiful morning , the 20th of Feb. 1839 , during my passage from Hobart Town to Sydney , when the sea was perfectly calm and of a glassy smoothness , this wanderer of the ocean came in sight and approached within three hundred yards of the vessel ; anxious to attract him still closer , so as to bring him within range , I thought of the following stratagem : — a corked bottle , attached to a long line , was thrown overboard and allowed to drift to the distance of forty or fifty yards , and kept there until the bird favoured us with another visit , while flying around in immense circles ; at length his keen eye caught sight of the neck of the bottle ( to which a bobbing motion was communicated by sudden jerks of the string ) , and he at once proceeded to examine more closely what it was that had arrested his attention ; during this momentary pause the trigger was pulled , the boat lowered , and the bird was soon in my possession . ’ |
| 25 | They simply appeared to be defending high earners . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | If someone had written a letter like that to her , she would quite probably be floating high above the assorted pickles and jams at this very moment on a pin , fluffy cloud , with a thousand invisible voices murmuring music into her ears . |
| 29 | At a minimum they will be accorded high prestige since they exemplify and personify common values . |
| 30 | 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 . |