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

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1 Frequently , however , items that now have low and/or back vowels , are given with [ Ε ] : these include rether for ‘ rather ’ ( a rural Scots residue ) , e for a in single nasal environments in polysyllables such as exemine , Jenuary and in nasal cluster environments such as demsel , exemple , Entrim ( 'Antrim' ) , slent , bendy ( 'bandy' ) , brench .
2 Manchester United and Everton use a transfer fee movement mechanism to appropriate profits to reserve account when transfer expenditure is low or transfer revenues high , and debit this account when transfer payments are significant .
3 Surprisingly , Dell has n't seen fit to include a low or zero insertion force socket in the 433/L .
4 Shareholders with high tax rates will be attracted to firms paying low dividends , while shareholders with low or zero tax rates will be attracted to firms paying high dividends .
5 Pregnancy order tended to mediate the effect of maternal age , so that weight and height of infants tends to be lower where pregnancy order is high in relation to age ( see e.g. Omran , 1976 , p. 524 ) .
6 PTO Power is generally lower than engine power through driveline losses .
7 Net interest includes interest payable on precious metal loans ( often referred to as metal ‘ leases ’ ) where rates are usually lower than money loans .
8 Blaming lower than forecast levels of personal and corporate tax receipts and rising interest rates , the OMB estimated the true level of the 1991 deficit as between $123,000 million and $138,000 million .
9 Her boast was that she had been dancing at every RAF and American air force station within a 30-mile radius , and that she would n't look at any male with a rank lower than Squadron Leader or the American equivalent .
10 The High Court in Edinburgh heard that an investment analyst with the stockbrokers Bell Lawrie White had received information from the chairman of the waste management and construction group , Shanks&McEwan , that profits were going to be lower than City expectations .
11 Some market makers quoted offer prices of shares in the index lower than bid prices , the opposite of normal market practice , and there were accusations that some market makers did not answer their phones , so that quotes were not accurate .
12 The actual death rate from asthma in West Cumbria seems to be much lower than mortality statistics suggest .
13 the major potential confounder is this analysis is pH , because pH values of oesophageal fluid are about 1.0 log point lower than pH values of saliva .
14 The reason for this is that sperm production takes place at a temperature a couple of degrees lower than body temperature , so the process has to take place outside the body to function properly .
15 RETIX PROFITS LIKELY TO BE LOWER THAN ANALYST EXPECTATIONS
16 Research showed that primary community loyalties operated at a level much lower than district boundaries .
17 However , in 1957 some bonds were redeemed by the Club at less than par , so perhaps the President was successful after all , possibly by inviting bondholders themselves to suggest a lower than par price .
18 Where the confusion seems to stem from is the fact that guitar music sounds an octave lower than concert pitch .
19 For instance , trees bearing edible fruits were made easy to climb , being much lower than forest trees .
20 Pipe a line of icing along the lower and centre edges of the ‘ card ’ ( left ) and ‘ card ’ ( right ) .
21 If parallel market rates were lower and instrument prices higher , then it would be possible to sell parallel instruments , at a high price , and with the proceeds buy a similar instrument with regard to risk and maturity in the discount market at a low price , and therefore higher yield .
22 If fertility remains low and life expectancy continues to improve , it could reach 20 per cent by the year 2025 .
23 Software costs can be quite low and information retrieval systems such as KWIRS , SIR , QUEST or MODIFIABLE DATABASE ( see software list , Appendix 1 ) are available for around 120 .
24 When tariffs on imports are low and transport costs are moderate , domestic producers may face severe international competition .
25 First of all there is a phase of population increase , where mortality is low and adult body size is up to 50 per cent larger than normal ; the resulting high density promotes dispersal , shortens the breeding season , and delays sexual maturity in juveniles ; and this is followed by a phase of decline , which may be rapid or spaced over one to two years , and during which mortality is high and adult size decreases .
26 But , as yet , concentration in the sector is quite low and market share remains fragmented .
27 To procure a steeper cut-off than is exhibited by the frequency responses of the simple C-R or L-R low and high-pass filters , further reactive components must be added to the network .
28 The low and high-pass , L-C , ladder filters already discussed in this section are said to be constant-k filters because the product of the series and parallel impedances is independent of frequency , which fact can be expressed in terms of a constant k as For the low and high-pass filters considered , k is just .
29 The time taken to complete the partnership was short : initial costs were high , but running costs were low and freight charges were extremely high .
30 The increase could be lower if Environment Secretary Michael Heseltine insists on tough capping limits but that could mean job losses .
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