"set a high value" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It means to assign or establish a significant level of worth or importance to something. Example: "The antique vase was set at a high value due to its rarity and exquisite design."
Crick, who set a high value on his privacy, seems not to have left biographers a great deal to work with beyond what is already on the record.
The British and the Chinese both set a high value on face, or prestige, and banking is close to their hearts.
From your letter I sense that you set a high value on the fact that you were an enthusiastic reader as a child and that you want your daughter to be the same.
For evolutionary and cultural reasons, she said, women might set a high value on the closeness and longevity of relationships: "But it's wrong to think that because relationships are what women choose they're the primary source of women's desire".
It has been suggested to me by friends, on whose opinions I set a high value, that in this fictitious character, 'Childe Harold', I may incur the suspicion of having intended some real personage: this I beg leave, once for all, to disclaim – Harold is the child of imagination......
4 And again, both the present and future descendants of those godlike men will choose, not the pleasantest and easiest of lives, but rather the noblest and most ambitious, when they consider that all who are sprung from an illustrious origin ought to set a high value on themselves and indulge in no pursuit unworthy of their ancestors.
Teaching in the daigakuryō gradually shifted in emphasis from Confucianism to literature, since the kuge set a higher value on artistic refinement than on more spiritual endeavours.
"I don't think Harvard is a better university than the other two, but it seems that Americans set a higher value on its A.B. If I had a son I'd take him to Cambridge and chain him to the campus pump to remain there until he had acquired a sound Harvard accent.
If you want your 'sketch' to have a stronger look, then you should set a higher value of pixels.
Clearly, setting a high value for θ maintains the signal quality but increases the outage probability and reduces the network utilization.
It is noted that setting a higher value of Δ(i) increases the residual margin at the receiver of node's i transmission, but at the same time lowers the residual interference margin at receivers that have already been scheduled at this time slot.
