Example sentences of "so low " in BNC.

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1 Moreover , the strength of the kink is so low that it will often fail when the glider is only just off the ground .
2 The elevator loads remain almost constant at all speeds and are so low that any jerky movement may result in very high ‘ g ’ loadings .
3 He was so low that a wing-tip touched the ground , causing a ground loop .
4 For many older people , income is so low that they have to claim additional means-tested benefits such as income support , housing benefit and community charge ( poll tax ) benefit .
5 ‘ The fish were really distressed and could not avoid bashing into each other with the water level so low .
6 The advantage of the temperature being so low — although it has risen several degrees with the cloud over — is that the snow is like dry flour and brushes off easily .
7 She might have been any age between thirty and sixty and Wexford set the lower limit so low only because of her young children .
8 Production had sunk so low that in November , Black November , not a single film went into production in any of the country 's studios .
9 NEWCASTLE United yesterday sent a written offer to Celtic for Roy Aitken reportedly so low that it is likely to be returned to St James ' Park unopened .
10 There is no evidence for this , which is probably why the quality of their argument can fall so low , with Shamir saying of perhaps the most influential and long-standing of PLO ‘ moderates ’ , Khalid Hassan , that ‘ when you see his face you know he can not be trusted . ’
11 Few bands sink so low , few soar this high .
12 His difficulty is that , with his economic and diplomatic credit so low , he can not afford to antagonise the West on the Gulf .
13 That is what stokes their desire to flee ( if only the damned rand were not so low , and the idea of settling in Ealing so bloody depressing ) ; what scares the living daylights out of the lovely green suburbs .
14 We decided to keep it on and sub-let it as the rent was so low . ’
15 Instead , she turned it on so low that at first Tug could not make out anything except a faint crackling and hissing .
16 She had a brow so low that her hair seemed to begin sprouting from just above her eyes which moved independently .
17 No comparable list existed for England , where it is doubtful if architects and stockbrokers would have rated quite so high or gardeners and miners so low .
18 Her blouse was scooped so low at the front that it left her shoulders and upper arms bare .
19 Once she 'd had the baby , she immediately set about getting back to her ‘ normal ’ weight , even though that weight was so low that her body could not function normally .
20 When Awlad Amira took control of the popular committees a few months later , ousting Mannaia from office , Umar al-Abairsh and his supporters alleged that they could have done so only with Tibbu support ; they said only Awlad Amira , poor and unenterprising , would stoop so low to get their hands on the administration : Awlad Amira denied establish the truth of such allegations : Awlad Amira denied them , as they would ; Tibbu pointed to their political inactivity , their poverty and lack of numbers , and their peacefulness ( except under provocation ) , suggesting that Mannaia were scarcely dispassionate when they talked about the results of elections .
21 IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN WINTER , THE SKY WAS SO low , thick and grey .
22 So low it was almost a vibration .
23 Some people said their incomes were so low they could not obtain mortgages and 18 were squatted in by former occupants who refused to pay the money .
24 Some people said that their incomes were so low that they could not obtain mortgages and 18 were squatted in by former occupants who refused to pay the money .
25 Safe , too , is John Birt , Hussey 's choice as director-general-designate , although morale is so low within news and current affairs at the BBC that rumours are circulating of a secret haven within ITN where ammunition is being collected from dissident BBC executives to try to blast Birt out .
26 The pay of David Kershaw , 30 , from Merseyside , a locally-hired computer programmer at Fujitsu is the same as that of Japanese colleagues — which he describes as average because , he says , ‘ the basic pay is so low you end up putting in lots of overtime to bring your income up to the level in England . ’
27 They are low , so low that they can hardly be called a threshold — more a ramp , with a sign over it begging ‘ Please , please walk up ’ .
28 Douglas chased the German back over Edinburgh again for a second time , so low that ‘ grannies ’ fell off chimneys and empty cartridge cases rained in back-gardens .
29 But we must drive inflation down so low that it no longer affects the decisions made by ordinary people , businesses and government .
30 A Theme so low as Mira 's simple Song ,
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