Example sentences of "[adj] to a lower [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If a subsidiary faces high taxes , for instance , the parent will set transfer prices as high as it can , lowering the subsidiary 's taxable profits and boosting its own , which are subject to a lower tax rate . |
| 2 | It is unlikely that employees ( who are not shadow directors ) owe such a high level of duty to the company , though they are still subject to a lower duty of good faith and of confidentiality . |
| 3 | A weaker protection is produced at GpA in ( ATT ) 4 CG(AAT) 4 suggesting that the weaker cleavage observed in this fragment is due to a lower affinity of the antibiotic for this site , presumably as a result of the structure imposed by the surrounding DNA sequence . |
| 4 | This intuitive account would require , in an analogue of consciousness for which program-level reduction could provide a necessary condition , but no more , that there be access from a higher to a lower level of programming language in certain , yet to be specified , circumstances . |
| 5 | MORTALITY TRANSITION — The continuous decrease of mortality from a higher to a lower level , a component of demographic transition . |
| 6 | The key feature of all models of hysteresis is obviously present in the insider-outsider model : it is only during the process of adjustment from a higher to a lower level of employment that there will be significant downward pressure on the rate of increase of money wages and prices . |
| 7 | From the point of view of stress , the most important fact about the way we pronounce this word is that on the second syllable the pitch of the voice does not remain level , but usually falls from a higher to a lower pitch . |
| 8 | Moving tones are more common ; if English speakers want to say ‘ yes ’ or ‘ no ’ in a definite , final manner they will probably use a falling tone — one which descends from a higher to a lower pitch . |