Example sentences of "lower [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Finally we breasted the saddle in the lower ridge , what in the Welsh mountains , and latterly in the Himalayas , we would call the cwm .
2 It had been anticipated that this group of fit and well motivated patients would have fared better , and allowed full assessment of the advantages of this technique , particularly as the patients were younger , median age 63 ( range 33–77 ) and fitter ( lower ASA grade ) .
3 Intestinal crypt cells are known to have a higher adenylate cyclase and a lower guanylate cyclase activity than differentiated villous cells .
4 At lower frequencies ( <10GHz ) , the flip-flop toggled reliably will less than — 15dBm on the input .
5 As a typical 20-storey building has a frequency of 0.5 hertz , and taller buildings have even lower frequencies , they are likely to be beyond the range of resonance .
6 Many sounds produced by living creatures , however , lie in frequencies outside our human threshold of hearing and are thus designated as ultrasound ( higher frequencies ) or infrasound ( lower frequencies ) .
7 Because the Power Tool 's EQ is added to the sound after your amplifier it can drastically change the tone produced at the end of the chain , especially in the lower frequencies .
8 The fractional-order beam intensities can be written , by analogy with holography , as It can be shown that the first and second terms are actually the squares of amplitudes of scattered waves , and their major components have lower frequencies than do the third and the last terms , and can therefore be suppressed ( refs 8 , 14 ; P.H. and D.A.K. , unpublished results ) .
9 To find out what is distinctive about the style of a certain corpus or text we work out the frequencies of the features it contains and then measure these figures against equivalent figures which are " normal " for the language in question.The style is then to be measured in terms of deviations — either higher frequencies or lower frequencies — from the norm .
10 Generally , large animals hear lower frequencies and small ones respond to higher frequencies .
11 Like many other frogs , both sexes also respond to a band of lower frequencies .
12 The lower frequencies penetrate further , scanning a wider area , while the higher frequencies bounce off very small objects .
13 These can be used down to 600 and 350 cm -1 , respectively ; for lower frequencies , CsI can be used down to 200 cm -1 but it is softer and much more expensive .
14 If there are groups with similar vibration frequencies close to each other in the molecule , and two or more of the vibrations are of the same symmetry , the group modes will mix ; mixing displaces the normal modes to higher and lower frequencies .
15 Thus , the more mobile a dipolar group , the easier it is for it to follow the electric field up to higher frequencies , whereas the less mobile groups can only orient at lower frequencies .
16 Items which discriminate best are ones which are passed by more of the higher scorers than the lower scorers ; the best discriminators of all are generally those items which are passed by about $0 per cent of the candidates overall .
17 For instance , Corbett , in support of the observation that Swift uses abnormally long sentences in A Modest Proposal , cites a much lower sentence length from a sample from A Tale of a Tub .
18 Examples 6–9 should be played using a pick/finger combination ; pick the lower notes , and finger-pick the upper ones .
19 I was ( I think you will understand ) initially dubious about a single 10″ driver in such a small box really delivering the goods ( especially with the lower notes on my 5-string ) but was certainly intrigued by the cabinet design , so I was looking forward to giving the little beast some stick on a couple of gigs …
20 All settings up to about 8 ( out of 10 ) on the master volume elicit a clear , punchy tone , right down to the lower notes on my 5-string , and live it proved well able to compete with two rawk'n'rawl guitar players and a loud drum kit on an R&B pub gig .
21 So that for example an alto does n't need so many notes , high notes , but needs a few more lower notes .
22 But not as many as you would have if you were using the treble clef because you 'd probably end up with a lot of lower this is wha , that is n't a particularly good example really because it has n't given a lot of lower notes but normally you 'd expect to see more notes down on these lines .
23 So because a tenor sings a little bit lower you 've got more of the lower notes and fewer of the higher notes before you need to add start adding ledger line notes .
24 The lower notes of a melody are usually placed at points of emotive decline .
25 Example 78 is a simplified version of these three chords , showing the orchestration : Note that the lower notes form tenths , without foreign notes .
26 ( Note that in the natural harmonic series the lower notes are the most consonant , while higher up dissonances become more , but not disturbingly , acute .
27 There are also lower resorts with especially good snow records such as up-market Lech and Zurs in Austria and duty-free Livigno in Italy .
28 With lower taxes and a smaller distortion there would be a lower dead-weight burden .
29 First , an examination of the gold coinage of Henry VIII would reveal that he introduced a new gold coin with a lower fineness and weight .
30 The multifactorial model tended to fit better when an intergenerational difference was included ( Z estimated at 0.05 , corresponding to a much lower heritability among parents ( ZH ) than among offspring ( H ) ) , but it was not significantly better ( χ 2 =3.28 , p=0.075 ) .
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