Example sentences of "[adv] low as possible " in BNC.
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| 1 | LDL helps to build up the deposits that cause heart disease , so it should be as low as possible . |
| 2 | Accounts are also kept for shareholders , but American accounting laws allow studios to guess how well a film will do in each of its markets ( an invitation either to claim profits early or to put off losses ) ; for the tax man ( ditto ) ; and for various stars who have been promised shares of a film 's net profit — a figure which a studio wants to keep as low as possible . |
| 3 | Similarly , and in the interest of keeping prices as low as possible , it may be necessary on the return journey to combine transfer coaches . |
| 4 | The political will came at a critical time when it was very necessary to keep the food costs component of the total wage bill ( including the foreign exchange component ) as low as possible to allow rapid and profitable industrialisation . |
| 5 | ‘ After buying into the practice , it was very important to me to keep my outgoings as low as possible while my earnings built up . |
| 6 | Social security ensured that the costs of mass retirement were kept as low as possible and were spread over the whole population rather than falling only on employers . |
| 7 | Using the cover of the bushes or whatever , I crouch as low as possible and manoeuvre myself into a position where I know I could cast to them , not forgetting to make a note of a landing site , for it is useless to hook a fish if you can not play it to the landing net . |
| 8 | B. Managers tried to find the best places for iron and steel works , in order to keep transport costs as low as possible . |
| 9 | ‘ We started from the point of making the mass as low as possible , ’ Wortmann says , ‘ We found that by avoiding the turbulence of two rotors , we were able to achieve a rotor speed of 450 kilometres per hour at the tip — the fastest in the world . ’ |
| 10 | We are doing our best to keep our costs as low as possible , bearing in mind our primary duty of setting and ensuring safety standards . |
| 11 | But to keep overindebtedness as low as possible — and in October 1990 Sir Gordon Borrie said the level of default had risen , and was significant and disturbing — the government ruled that every advertisement of a mortgage lender carried the warning : |
| 12 | Vines can be lifted high off the ground to avoid frost ; dropped as low as possible to benefit from heat reflected by stony ground at night ; generously spaced along the rows to attract the sun and avoid humidity ; or intensively cultivated into a canopy of foliage to avoid too much sun and encourage humidity in dry areas . |
| 13 | The other requirements for keeping leather corals , apart from current and light , are much the same as for other coelenterates ; well-filtered water with phosphate and nitrate at levels as low as possible and no fish that would eat or damage them . |
| 14 | The gate works simply and positively , and providing the threshold is set as low as possible and the release rate as long as possible , no untoward clicks or glitches show up . |
| 15 | In approaching philosophical problems John Locke ( 1632–1704 ) kept the temperature of discussion as low as possible ; there was no point in reviving the interminable religious disputes which had produced the Wars of Religion in the earlier seventeenth century . |
| 16 | Second , ensure that the District Valuer correctly identifies the premises occupied and the rateable value is as low as possible . |
| 17 | Any property owner in this position should take immediate advice as action may be necessary both to ensure that the rateable value is as low as possible , and that maximum advantage is taken of the empty rate provisions . |
| 18 | From the narrow accountancy viewpoint , people are a cost and it is desirable to keep this cost as low as possible . |
| 19 | For example , poor-country governments may have an incentive to report GDP as low as possible to qualify for soft loans from international financial institutions , or to get favourable trade treatment . |
| 20 | The Republicans believed in keeping government expenditure as low as possible , and in cutting taxes to provide incentives for investment . |
| 21 | Er , it 's not a funding system that er that we would choose to work under , we would want to keep the rents as low as possible er , but it 's one that 's set by central government through the housing corporation and that we have to live with . |
| 22 | As against this , it is argued that insurance companies act as an additional monitoring agency : in fixing premiums insurers will assess the degree of risk and directors thus have an incentive to minimise the chances of liability arising in order to keep premiums as low as possible . |
| 23 | Even with the volume as low as possible , the closed-down TV still emitted a faint shriek . |
| 24 | We have kept this year 's price increase as low as possible despite the ever-increasing costs of print and production . |
| 25 | But some big names have crept in as well — Abbey National , the Woolwich , Northern Rock , National & Provincial and the Leeds have all demonstrated a commitment to keeping overall costs as low as possible . |
| 26 | We have kept ticket prices as low as possible , and any profits will go to Age Concern 's Golden Years Appeal , our charity of the year . |
| 27 | The aim was to get the weight as low as possible while at the same time maintain adequate surface area . |
| 28 | The conclusions drawn are that perforations should be shot with the biggest charges possible , large negative pressure differentials , and that there needs to be a high shot density ; also that the mud weight over-balance — that is , the degree of pressure maintained above the reservoir 's natural pressure — during drilling should be as low as possible ; and that losses of fluids and solids to the productive reservoirs should never be accepted as a matter of course . |
| 29 | Felipe was keeping his voice as low as possible and she knew why . |
| 30 | I turned it as low as possible and looked round the blind at Frankenstein 's house . |