Example sentences of "lower down [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tidswell lifeguards with three slat gates were fitted and the lamp was removed from below the roof ; it was replaced by small side lamps in boxes like those on the bogie cars , but lower down on the dash . |
| 2 | There are two rows of teeth in the lower jaw , one row on the crest of the jaw ( buccal teeth ) and one row lower down on the inside ( lingual teeth ) . |
| 3 | The location of the handle — lower down on the blade — and its angle with respect to the toothline of the saw , means that sawing power is distributed evenly along the whole length of the blade , unlike conventional handsaws . |
| 4 | To straighten the data in figure 11.13 , for example , the curve has to be pulled down in the Y -direction and up in the X -direction ; linearity will therefore probably be improved by raising the Y variable to a power lower down on the ladder and/or by raising the X variable to a power higher up on the ladder . |
| 5 | Lower down on the note he had written ‘ Husband is a bully . |
| 6 | Significantly lower down on the status scale is Gatorland , where you can watch a Seminole Indian wrestle an alligator and later treat yourself to fried alligator tail at the snack bar ; it 's actually not as vile as it sounds . |
| 7 | The New Inn lower down on the left is no longer a pub . |
| 8 | As you drop down into Blaenau Ffestiniog from the heights of the Crimea Pass , the entrance to Gloddfa Ganol is on the right , lower down on the left is Llechwedd . |
| 9 | The air was quite filled with hundreds and hundreds of swifts , wheeling and turning in the sky , with dozens of swallows and sand-martins and just a few house-martins lower down over the water . |
| 10 | Lower down in the division , Brentwood St Albans secured their second win of the Vauxhall season by defeating bottom-placed Harpenden to move up to within a point of second-placed Puma Welwyn City . |
| 11 | The catarrhal state may be lower down in the trachea which becomes extremely sore from much coughing for days and weeks , again is worse ( < ) morning and evening , a rattling , wheezing , barking cough in an oversensitive , chilly patient . |
| 12 | Lower down in the government were such potential agents of ‘ Thatcherism ’ as David Howell and ( more doubtfully ) Nigel Lawson . |
| 13 | An instruction from the minister is the final word within a department , an excerpt from the Cabinet minutes conveying the decision of a committee of the Cabinet or of the full Cabinet outranks all other orders and is the source of direction for all the policy decisions taken lower down in the government . |
| 14 | Do you do anything for children lower down in the school ? |
| 15 | It was precisely this analysis of how certain expressions lower down in the tree thus fell within the scope of others higher up on a branch that launched modern logic on its powerful and sophisticated account of logical relations among sentences . |
| 16 | But this does not prevent other functions from being present , lower down in the hierarchy , in texts in which the poetic function is dominant ; equally , the poetic function may be present in texts which are mainly expressive or referential . |
| 17 | Old-style bureaucracy , with its traditional tall-pyramid structure , is being rejected as insufficiently flexible , and alternative ways of organization , using flatter structures or less hierarchical ones , and giving more autonomy to those lower down in the organization are sought . |
| 18 | ABOVE , RIGHT Regular cleaning of the upper part of the ear is recommended , and may help to prevent infections from becoming established lower down in the ear canal . |