Example sentences of "[noun pl] at low [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although they had certain rights especially under equity law , few women were willing to go to court against their husbands At lower levels of society the forms of marriage tended to be more relaxed . |
| 2 | Sudden bursts of anger over wrongs and grievances by seamen were common enough in the eighteenth century — over wages at Southampton in 1739 , Bristol in 1746 , London in 1750 , 1768 and 1770 and Liverpool in 1762 and 1775 , and over the employment of foreigners at lower wages in London in 1773 and 1783 , are among those incidents of which we have evidence . |
| 3 | Or perhaps there are schemes for the disabled to rent computers at lower rates ? |
| 4 | Standard hierarchical models , however , allow too little interaction between the knowledge sources : within a strictly hierarchical system , one can not interleave the processes associated with each different level of knowledge , and hence one can not allow the very early filtering out by higher-level components of what might only be partial analyses at lower levels . |
| 5 | The high number of sites very close to water can be equated with the number of sites at low altitudes , sea-level and up to 15 m above sea level . |
| 6 | Co-location of staffs would help to break down barriers between the Services , and the development of tri-Service staffs at lower levels would also build up the necessary expertise . |
| 7 | Anthropological ideas of the Great Chain of Being had tradi-tionally placed those of European descent at the peak of that classification , and those of other origins at lower levels of development . |
| 8 | The winds at lower altitudes have been measured at a few locations by landers as they descended through the atmosphere . |
| 9 | Galluim Arsenide fets processed with a special surface deposition exhibit indeterminate switch-on thresholds at low frequencies but work like normal transistors at higher frequencies . |
| 10 | Fine fragrances at low prices were launched in all stores for Christmas . |
| 11 | He disagreed , saying that yellowing was typical only of high altitude damage in foggy conditions , whereas green needles were falling off trees over wide areas at lower altitudes . |
| 12 | To this extent the nation still acts as the overriding social group whose existence serves to contain the most damaging effects of the conflict and factionalism which are daily occurrences at lower levels . |
| 13 | The use of the New Workers ' Scheme ( discontinued in 1989 ) which subsidised employers who agreed to take on young workers at low rates of pay and the similar effect of the Jobstart Scheme for the long term unemployed . |
| 14 | The simple series forcing resistance is therefore an inefficient method of improving the speed range ; power is wasted in the resistances at low speeds so that the mechanical output power ( torque x speed ) can be improved at higher speeds . |
| 15 | It is true that each one of these components rests atop a pyramid of explanations at lower levels . |
| 16 | Judicial officials at lower levels were normally members of the civil service . |
| 17 | Conversely if the samples stored at the higher temperatures show little or no change , it may be possible to reduce the frequency of , or even omit , certain of the scheduled examinations at lower temperatures . |
| 18 | Taking effect from Nov. 18 , the reforms included ( i ) a 331/3 per cent devaluation of the currency , with an initial base exchange rate of 90 new kwanzas to the United States dollar ; ( ii ) a reduction in personal income tax , taking the top rate from 40 per cent of earned income to 15 per cent ; ( iii ) reduced consumer taxes ; ( iv ) the lifting of price ceilings on all commodities except soap , cooking oil , rice , sugar and baby milk ; ( v ) a new salary scale for public-sector workers , to compensate for the withdrawal of ration cards which had allowed them to buy goods at low prices ; and ( vi ) a minimum national salary of 12,000 kwanzas . |
| 19 | The increased discipline of competition in the product market ( ie the market in which goods and services are sold ) ensures that firms will be more responsive to consumer demand , providing better quality goods at lower prices than previously . |
| 20 | Argos can offer goods at lower prices than its High Street competitors because it has n't got as many overheads . |
| 21 | Buyers who have paid high prices do not discover that they could have obtained the same goods at lower prices ; sellers who have sold for low prices do not discover that they could have obtained higher prices . |
| 22 | This type is illustrated in Figure 5.6 , which shows the pendulum used at Bristol for studies at low temperatures in vacuum . |
| 23 | Soon they were selling goods to Faccenda 's customers at lower prices , operating along the same routes as Faccenda and generally making calls earlier in the week than Faccenda . |
| 24 | It has also been slow in reacting to the threat posed by rival PC manufacturers shipping similar machines at lower prices . |
| 25 | Although the reform was thought to have eliminated the possibility of tax rates in excess of 100% , it did not in fact prevent the situation depicted in Table 16.7 with rates of more than 100% over quite long ranges at low levels of income . |
| 26 | A reading of the directives of the Smolensk guberniia committee to all executive committees at lower levels for 1922 reveals centrally isolated bureaucrats surrounded by a swamp of unreliable social elements . |
| 27 | From 7 December , National Savings has made available new issues of Savings Certificates , Capital Bonds and Children 's Bonus Bonds at lower rates . |
| 28 | The increase of speed with altitude could be the result of the upward transfer , by convection in the troposphere , of energy of motion : as such energy is transferred from the high-density regions at low altitudes to the low-density regions high up then the low-density material has to move faster to carry this energy . |
| 29 | Giving loans at low rates of interest is only one advantage — although a significant one . |
| 30 | It is a matter of common experience that if one heats up a poker in a fire it glows red hot and emits radiation , but bodies at lower temperatures emit radiation too ; one just does not normally notice it because the amount is fairly small . |