Example sentences of "lower [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The body will begin to lower towards the ground . |
| 2 | As the body lowers towards the ground , place the palms of both hands on the floor for support . |
| 3 | As the sky lowers over the dust and soothes the hard-packed clay |
| 4 | George Bower first examined its possibilities and lowered from the top to a distinctive ledge beneath the steepest section . |
| 5 | The quantity of water raised from the lower to the higher level will on the average equal that lowered from the higher to the lower level so that there will be practically no loss of water by lockage and as the vessels transported by the lifts are waterborne the weight of the load carried by the dock is always the same whether the vessel be loaded or not and whether the dock contains a vessel or not . |
| 6 | European traders were really no problem ; they usually negotiated with his direct vassals or with princes lower in the scale . |
| 7 | The doctrine of precedent depends upon courts lower in the hierarchy respecting the authority of previous cases . |
| 8 | The highest of these levels produce the long-term stability and progressive improvements in efficiency of the specific decision units lower in the system . |
| 9 | Feuds lower in the social scale , such as that between the Heron and Manners families from 1428 to 1431 , where both parties could count on influential support from greater men , could prove hard to solve and necessitate impartial arbitration from outside ( 209 , pp. 197–201 ) . |
| 10 | When you lower to the start position , do not touch the board ; if you do this , or if you sit up past the vertical position , then the abdominals will have a slight rest . |
| 11 | Lower at the back , the short dress 's absolute simplicity contrasted effectively with the extravagant colour , a deep rich crimson , the silky fabric moulded to every curve that it covered and tapering up to thin straps that revealed the pale olive tone of her smooth , slender shoulders . |
| 12 | As I clambered into the boat , moored near her big yacht , Lucy took the bottles of beer and Coca-Cola and put them into an open net bag which she lowered over the side , tying the net with a long rope to a hook on the gunwale . |
| 13 | Lutyens solved the problem with the simple device of a closely-fitting outer shell that could be raised and lowered over the inner fabric of the house from machinery installed in its roof space . |
| 14 | It consists of a boat-like main hull and two outrigger pontoons , or sideswimmers , which are lifted hydraulically to rest on top for road travel and which are extended and lowered to the sides for stability on the water . |
| 15 | On this canal poundlocks were used for the first time in England , i.e. , an upper and a lower gate fitted with sluices and enclosing a chamber into which boats passed to be raised or lowered to the next level . |
| 16 | When equilibrium is attained , the temperature difference between the two drops ΔT is a measure of the extent of the vapour pressure lowering by the solute . |
| 17 | Moments after the fighter had dipped its wings , the RAF ensign was gently lowered for the last time at Biggin Hill , Kent . |
| 18 | For one , the legal barriers thrown in the way of interstate banking in the 1930s were progressively lowered after the mid-1980s , leading to the rise of ‘ super-regionals ’ . |
| 19 | Masklin felt himself being slowly lowered towards the ground . |
| 20 | As the water level lowered below the Deep Level horizon , it was decided to start driving a tunnel from the shaft side , to meet up with the advancing Deep Level from the south . |
| 21 | Burtenshaw took charge and 12 181b ( 8kg ) charges were lowered against the outside ( north ) underwater face of the caisson , the cords tied to the guard rail . |
| 22 | The bill is shaken laterally , it is lowered into the water and raised suddenly to lift a plume of water , the bird rises vertically in the water , and it then settles again and shakes its tail from side to side . |
| 23 | It seemed all were anxious to see Granny 's coffin lowered into the ground . |
| 24 | Some of them wept as the preacher opened up his prayer book and the coffin was gently lowered into the grave . |
| 25 | The tube can be lowered into the tank and once a syphon has been made , the tube picks up gravel and agitates it and once you apply your thumb to the end of the hose , the gravel falls back to the bottom , leaving you with clean substrate and a bucketful of dirty water . |
| 26 | At the graveside their parents , Garry and Maeve , held each other tightly and whispered ‘ I love you ’ to each coffin as it was lowered into the ground . |
| 27 | He showed me the cunning way in which Jim Wilson , the ship 's chandler , had hinged the top of the fuselage so that a patient could be lowered into the plane on a stretcher once the second seat had been removed to give the extra length . |
| 28 | Chemical stimulation is delivered via fine tubes , cannulae , lowered into the intended stimulation site . |
| 29 | Paddy Ryan wiped a tear from his eye as he watched his brother 's son being lowered into the ground . |
| 30 | For as he watched the cheap pine coffin being lowered into the frosty ground , Patrick Joseph Garrett Milligan vowed that the person responsible for the untimely death of his beautiful wife Kathleen should live to regret , forever and always , the moment of her wretched birth . |