Example sentences of "have a [adv] low [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | By contrast continental lithosphere has a significantly lower mean density than oceanic lithosphere and its buoyancy with respect to the asthenosphere prevents all but limited subduction . |
2 | He uses around 100 cubic metres per year and estimates he has only saved about £10 each year because his house has a relatively low rateable value . |
3 | This image can be most simply regarded as a porosity map , since the impregnating resin has a relatively low atomic number and shows up black . |
4 | As olivine has a much lower critical concentration than plagioclase ( see equation ( 1 ) ) , the scale of olivine layering should be smaller than for plagioclase , as is observed . |
5 | The evidence in rats that morphine 3-glucuronide may antagonise the analgesic actions of morphine is unsubstantiated and is hard to explain given that morphine 3-glucuronide has a much lower binding affinity for opioid receptors than either morphine or the active morphine metabolite , morphine 6-glucuronide . |
6 | Although these sorts of depreciatory arrangements can not be used to create allowable losses in the hands of the vendor company ( s 176 TCGA ) , they can within limits be used to reduce the vendor 's chargeable gain without the vendor 's having to realise the assets and business which may have a very low historical value . |
7 | The report explains ‘ It would cost five to ten times less than building conventional power stations to meet demand , and it would have a significantly lower environmental impact ’ . |
8 | Do they not realise what would happen to a young couple who bought a terraced cottage that had a traditionally low rateable value ? |
9 | By contrast , as might be expected , the nine townships with a zero rate of known opioid use have a much lower mean population size of about 1,300 , and a much lower mean unemployment rate of 6 per cent . |
10 | However , many ancient carbonates , particularly those in the Palaeozoic , have a somewhat lower diagenetic potential , being initially dominantly high and/or low Mg calcite . |
11 | Consequently , on reaching the surface they have a comparatively low residual pressure and explosive activity is very limited . |
12 | Most of Lewis and Harris and the uplands of South Uist have a very low Potential Water Deficit , as precipitation equals or even exceeds evapo-transpiration in all months of the year , and the uplands of southern Lewis , Harris and South Uist are so moist that even in summer ( April-September ) there is a PWS of over 500 mm . |