Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] a low " in BNC.
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| 1 | For their part , employers want a low wage rise and ‘ opening clauses ’ that would allow individual firms to negotiate lower pay settlements . |
| 2 | An alternative procedure would be to ask a lot of speakers to say a list of sentences in different ways according to labels provided by the analyst , and see what intonational features are found in common ( for example , one might count how many speakers used a low head in saying something in a ‘ hostile ’ way ) . |
| 3 | From the bushes came a low snort and the scraping of branches . |
| 4 | As patients who have been stone free for >nine months constitute a low risk group for recurrence ( see below ) , the apparently lower recurrence rate in the chenodeyxholic acid treated patients may be an artefact . |
| 5 | Inside there were long banks of computers making a low musical noise like a child 's spinning top . |
| 6 | The ascites had a low protein content ( 146 g/l ) . |
| 7 | Note that baths and shower trays have a low waste trap , so there will be problems getting sufficient fall on the waste pipe if it has to run all the way across a room under floorboards . |
| 8 | Goldthorpe argues that in the British case the effects have been strikingly asymmetrical : the expanding upper occupational strata show a low ‘ demographic homogeneity ’ ( i.e. a low proportion of members whose fathers were members of the same stratum or class ) , while the manual wage-earning classes , dwindling in size , show a very high level of demographic homogeneity : there has been little pressure for recruitment of manual workers from beyond the ranks of existing manual workers ' families . |
| 9 | Authorities put a low priority on helping the disabled and could not cope in complicated situations . |
| 10 | At the edge of the ribbed level of sidings squat a low cottage , three steps down from the cinder track ( 13 ) . |
| 11 | The variation exhibited is constrained within definable limits : following velars predict a front vowel , following voiceless stops predict a low front vowel ; fricatives and voiced obstruents allow variation between front and back , but strongly favour backing . |
| 12 | Notice from Table 7.7 however that investment trusts have a low level of gearing ( borrowing in relation to equity ) . |
| 13 | Electric frost protection tapes incorporating a low wattage heater , could be wrapped round pipes . |
| 14 | On the whole , these collections receive a low amount of use , particularly if the use of short loan collections is excluded from consideration . |
| 15 | Dealers kept a low profile : 80% of the sales went to private bidders . |
| 16 | With striking exceptions , social workers had a low opinion of the quality of court decision making ; |
| 17 | Internally , the AZ-1 is compact , the two bucket seats offering a low driving position but with all instruments within easy reach . |
| 18 | However , both these studies used a low resolution technique to type a complex tetranucleotide repeat polymorphism , and thus alleles assigned the same fragment length may be genetically heterogeneous . |
| 19 | Quick-wash Most machines offer a low temperature quick-wash , usually at around 50°C and lasting from 215 to 30 min . |
| 20 | Many of the studies showing a low incidence of electrocardiographic abnormalities included cardiac monitoring only during the endoscopy procedure itself . |
| 21 | Drakes have a low often wheezy whistle , and ducks a harsh growling ‘ kurrr , kurrr ’ |
| 22 | The purchase of UK company securities hit a low point in 1984 but has run at about 3.5bn for most of the 1980s . |
| 23 | THE latest crop of reduced rate home loans include a low start mortgage from the Northern Rock Building Society . |
| 24 | The introduction of characters " names is strangely delayed — but this is accountable if we consider that names have a low priority in the elaboration of psychological reality : if James had begun his first sentence : " Pemberton hesitated and procrastinated " , he would have succeeded in giving his main character a label , and nothing else . |
| 25 | Opponents kept a low profile and their leader , Dr Graham Leonard , Bishop of London , remained silent . |
| 26 | Spectra has a low melt point . |
| 27 | Concern accelerated to alarm when one of the ladies heard a low moaning from the family 's kitchen . |
| 28 | Claims by Mr Major and others that a Labour administration would be heavily influenced if not controlled by the unions appeared to fall on deaf ears as union leaders kept a low profile . |
| 29 | As the choristers sang a low chant in the background , the priest moved from one vessel to the next , praying for the fishermen to be kept safe from harm , and asking that the catch over the next year may be bountiful . |
| 30 | Either these genomes have a low level of expression , in contrast with observations in human muscle fibbers or cell studies ( 27–29 ) , or this transcript is characterized by a very short half-life . |