Example sentences of "[verb] at low [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Local government districts ( or parts thereof ) in mountain regions where agriculture is disadvantaged by short growing seasons due to altitudes above 600–800 metres or slopes over 20% average gradient per km. & sup2 ; In combination , areas can qualify at lower altitude with less severe slopes .
2 Experience of the project leader , flexibility of operation and team ability correlate at low significance .
3 A hand drill has its uses , too : making holes in tanks , for example , is sometimes a job best done at low speed — see hole cutters .
4 Drucker concluded about decision analysis that : ‘ A decision should always be made at lowest level and as close to the scene of action as possible …
5 So it is possible that the β -sheet that is present near physiological pH is disrupted at low pH .
6 Before any submicroscopic helical structures ( such as molecules , microtubules , flagella and viruses ) were known , H. R. Crane , whom I mentioned earlier , said ‘ … any structure that is straight or rod-like when seen at low magnification is probably a structure repeating along a screw axis ( ie , it is a helix ) .
7 Boulton & Watt 's beam engines employed large cylinders operating at low steam pressures , and McNaught 's expedient consisted of the addition of a small higher-pressure cylinder acting on the other half of the beam about midway along its length , with an appropriately shorter stroke , exhausting its steam into the original low-pressure cylinder .
8 When operating at low speed the freewheeling time of the phase currents is short compared to the total excitation time and for most of the cycle the phase current is carried by the switching transistors .
9 And a final $10 billion would be offered at low interest rates as part of a long-term economic plan to help the Soviet Union build some decent factories and roads and exploit its natural resources .
10 In this assay , bacteria with higher surface hydrophobicity agglutinated at lower ammonium sulphate concentrations .
11 Milk can be produced at lower cost from cows with the highest genetic potential in either low or high feed input systems .
12 For example , early indicators of investment success under a cost-leadership strategy might be the proof , at an embryonic stage of the life-cycle , that the product matches its rivals in quality but is being produced at lower cost .
13 If you , if you can cool down you 're essentially taking away all that erm extra energy , you 're making things less random , in fact one way to look at low temperature physics is , is to think that we 're always striving after the ideal , we 're trying to make things more and more perfect .
14 Phasic rectal contraction and anal relaxation were present but exaggerated and induced at lower distending volumes than in normal subjects .
15 Archives have an important role to ensure that strategic datasets , at the very least , continue to be deposited at low cost .
16 This was no easy task as the Lincoln would be flying at low level over a featureless jungle and the bomb aimer had to be quick in identifying each datum point on the route into and out of the target point .
17 Aviation experts say the planes were flying at low altitude on a special maritime training mission.This report from Debbie Kelly .
18 Waterwheels could not function at low water , so adjustable wheels were made .
19 platelet activating factor was detected at low concentration in 4/13 subjects under basal condition ( mean ( SEM ) 1.2 ( 0.6 ) pg/hr ) while high concentrations of lyso platelet activating factor ( 6.1 ( 1.8 ) µg/hr ) and of alkyl-acyl-glycerophosphocholine ( AAGPC ) ( 11.5 ( 3 ) µg/hr ) were found in 13 and 11 subjects , respectively .
20 The current popular level of application of smoke vents to some 3–5% of the floor area does seem low for the fire loads and rate of growth of fire , likely to be experienced in high-bay warehouses particularly when it is borne in mind that unless similar automatic ingress vent areas are provided at low level the effective ceiling vent areas might well be halved !
21 The man had been found near Southwark Bridge at the turn of the tide : he had grounded at low tide , and it had been assumed that he had been carried down river with the ebb .
22 To keep clear of British radar and stay undetected , the bombers had to fly at low level and so never attained the necessary height .
23 This methodology might be applicable to large-scale seroepidemiological studies of pathogens found at low prevalence within populations .
24 If free-market conditions had generally prevailed , and if the BEA had got all the investment resources it required at low interest rates , this conclusion would be unassailable .
25 Note at lower right , slanting up from beneath the end of the silver lace chevron , the neatly stitched bottom edge of the patch on which the colour badge is worked .
26 Argentiferous galena was also worked in Devonian sediments at Combe Martin on the north Devon coast ( MRP 90 ) and in the South-west England mining field from veins emplaced at lower temperature than , and often crosscutting , the earlier Sn-Cu veins .
27 The dowel is gripped in a drill , and run at low speed , with a little pressure .
28 The new Council of Ministers included not only NSF members but also representatives from the National Liberal Party ( NLP ) , the Romanian Ecological Movement ( REM ) and the Agrarian Democratic Party ( ADP ) ; other parties were represented at lower government level .
29 The remaining junctions we have studied ( G4pC5 , A5pC6 , G7pT8 , T8pC9 ) do not resonate at low field and thus would not be expected to be in the B II state .
30 It is also found that , for the junctions whose phosphates do not resonate at low field , the torsional energy of the B II conformation is uniformly less stable than that of the starting structure .
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