Example sentences of "low on the " in BNC.

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1 Yet RDS remains low on the list of consumer priorities .
2 It was four years since the last Plan of Work was published — an indication , surely , of how low on the Government 's list of priorities is the place of safety at work .
3 All those years ago they had thoughtfully placed it unusually low on the wall to make it easy for the child Maggie had then been to reach .
4 Political consciousness is low on the Meadowell Estate .
5 Mariana crouched low on the pillion .
6 He caught the atmosphere of those grey days when the clouds hang low on the hills and the colours are sombre .
7 The hare crouches low on the ground and remains absolutely still until the predator is nearly upon it .
8 Sport did n't have any priority at all in this kind of philosophy ; with Mum and Dad it was way down low on the list .
9 She scratched , the itch coming with the thought , and looked across at a brig that was still low on the incoming tide .
10 With their ragged appearance , long yellow teeth and simple intelligence , they rank quite low on the social register .
11 The allocation was decided at the highest level of government , and radio broadcasting had long been low on the list of priorities .
12 Any international satellite dish one might see in Vancouver or Los Angeles will point toward its ‘ bird ’ , low on the western horizon — the Pacific satellite .
13 For example , the placing of the head : a dynamic , powerful man should be made to fill the canvas , whereas children 's heads are better placed low on the canvas .
14 It 's not a particularly quick job but the results are very worthwhile , especially if you do a lot of flying when the sun is low on the horizon .
15 Marron hair pulled back and clipped over her ears , falling freely behind ; lack of make-up bestowing a pallor which dramatised her generous brown eyes ; petite mouth and jaunty nose , set rather low on the tapered oval of her face , thus emphasising the curved hauteur of her forehead .
16 In media terms China would sink low on the news list unless there was new trouble on the streets .
17 The sun was low on the horizon now and the birds were still flying in from ‘ pre-roost assembly points ’ .
18 The sexual act , it seemed , was low on the list of priorities and was on offer at bargain prices ; then , as you toured the body 's locations , the cost increased .
19 In most cases music comes low on the list .
20 The red ball of the late afternoon sun was low on the horizon .
21 Then the bell of the stethoscope is deployed , low on the forehead , just above the orbits .
22 Such presents marked the passing from girlhood to accessible maidenhood ; this state was made manifest on the day when Nicandra 's striking blonde hair was pinned , a pale hillock , low on the back of her neck .
23 Tax reform had been low on the political agenda before 1965 , with the basic structure of taxes remaining unchanged for decades .
24 With the first stirrings of Jagger 's plans to out-Woodstock Woodstock at California 's Altamont race track , the London magazine office was low on the singer 's list of priorities .
25 It is an architectural cathedral , long and low on the exterior with geometrical traceried windows and simple flying buttresses .
26 ‘ I am low , low on the ground next to you , Yusuf ! ’
27 Staying alive seemed to be pretty low on the average Muslim 's list of priorities .
28 Faecal SCFA concentrations were low on the first day of diarrhoea ( mean ( SEM ) 9.9 ( 5.8 ) mmol/kg ) and increased to 94.8 ( 16.4 ) mmol/kg by the fifth day .
29 The concentration and output of SCFA in faeces was low on the first day of illness , but returned towards normal by the fifth day ( Table I ) .
30 I was actually quite low on the activists and higher on these three but I managed to wonder sometimes where I worked ever so hard on a session I ca n't really ca n't understand you know why it 's not going very well and I thought well when I then watched other people do something that had a lot of action I thought well why did they like that more and I never I did n't know but I 've actually learnt that you have to put activities in , cos you , you know you do get people with a very strong activist preference .
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