Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] at high " in BNC.

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1 Unless you intend to fit double-glazing yourself ( and even ‘ Cling-film ’ can be very effective ) , it is best to get brochures and free estimates from several of the largest and longest-established firms in this field before making any decision , as there are numerous small firms selling sub-standard products at high prices .
2 Thames Valley Police have defended their decision to pursue a stolen car at high speed through a city centre .
3 Very often , Western copyright and patent holders are more interested in exporting a few products at high prices than in selling licences or granting permissions at prices that Third World countries can afford .
4 This practice has been followed for over 300 years at High Bridge End , St. John 's in the Vale , and until recently at Adamthwaite in the Howgills , and it is referred to in Langdale also .
5 The effective removal of heat from a developed fire is essential to limit that lateral spread of super-heated air and smoke , to localise the effects of high temperature so that expansion and collapse effects are localised and to maintain relatively smoke free conditions at high level .
6 The technique makes use of the properties that water develops when heated to high temperatures at high atmospheric pressures .
7 Seeing as an electric guitar becomes an almost entirely different animal at high volume , how do you compensate for that when you practise ?
8 A dogwhelk 's tolerance of reduced salinity is probably low , despite Pelseneer 's ( 1935 ) statement that they can survive 9.5 days in fresh water ( Moore 1938b ) and Agersborg 's ( 1929 ) finding of living animals in freshwater pools at high water mark in Norway .
9 There they breathe in pure oxygen at high pressure .
10 He recited a list of biblical names at high speed into the machine , expecting it to stumble and clear its throat .
11 There are no easy answers at High Rocks , but privately negotiated fee deals can only serve to make the right solution even harder to find .
12 As suggested in section 10.5 , insertion of resistance in series with the capacitance C limits the closed-loop gain at high frequencies that satisfy and if the closed-loop Bode plot is like that of with an approach to the open-loop plot at 6 dB per octave , the amplifier is likely to be stable .
13 In another study a group of children with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy at high risk of sudden death ( history of loss of consciousness , family history of sudden death ) who were given amiodarone had a better prognosis than an untreated group at low risk .
14 To cover large areas at high speed the sprayer is best adjusted to provide a mist .
15 The feeling of psychological revival and an elevation of mood is a common experience in mountains , and this may be related to the euphoric and hallucinogenic effects of low oxygen levels in the brain brought about by hard exercise at high altitudes .
16 And they would then sell these goods at high prices to those buyers who have not discovered that some sellers have been selling for low prices .
17 The lack of any hard eclipse at high frequencies suggests that the eclipse is due to scattering or absorption of the radio waves as they pass through ionized matter surrounding the companion star .
18 However , a World Meteorological Organization analysis of the winter periods between 1969 and 1988 for the zone between 30 and 64 N reveals ozone decreases in the range 3 to 5 per cent , with the larger decreases at high latitudes .
19 Steel with tungsten included in the alloy to impart the ability to cut hard materials at high speed .
20 In the best observations , group 1 , the power spectra of both observations show three features ( Fig. 1 c , e ) : a red-noise component which rises towards low frequencies , a broad peak with a centroid frequency around 2mHz and a flat component at high frequency due to Poisson noise .
21 IBM Corp last week boosted the versatility of its Power Visualisation System , a parallel server for generating and manipulating complex images at high speed in applications such as medicine and geophysics , and cut prices on the thing by 25% to 40% , lowering the entry point to $320,000 from $528,000 .
22 If recognition sensitivity were directly proportional to the amount of information in a stimulus this would give the obtained results , risky exemplars being associated with good recognition at high risk junctions but with bad recognition at low risk junctions .
23 The deviation of the average Madeira composition from the correlation for the other islands supports the view that the origins of the Madeira magmas are distinct in being derived by small degrees of partial melting at high pressure in the garnet stability field , as garnet would cause fractionation of the rare earth elements .
24 Corresponding small-signal behaviour at high frequencies is then covered by adding reactive components to the equivalent circuit that directly relate to the particular physical mechanisms that cause the differing response at such frequencies .
25 They were 35-foot-long grey whales , who were subsequently seen wallowing in the shallow water at high tide scooping mouthfuls of sand off the beach and straining out the abundant ghost shrimps from it .
26 JANE SMITH , who breeds Simmental cattle at High House Farm , Bryngwyn , Raglan , Gwent , has taken over as secretary of the National Sheep Association 's Wales and Border ram sales at Builth Wells .
27 Alternative routes at high tide leave the coast at Easton Bavents and Green Heath , Covehithe .
28 Here we report measurements of electrical conductivity at high temperatures and pressures on samples of carbon-bearing and carbon-free granulites with a range of electrolyte saturations .
29 The desperation of many homeless families and single people means that they are prepared to accept poor accommodation at high prices because of the absence of any reasonable alternative , even if they are aware of their legal rights .
30 At a time when standards of living were rapidly rising at home , our goods abroad , manufactured with the disproportionate vulnerability of too many man-hours at high wage rates , became unattractively priced .
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