Example sentences of "lower down [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Where it occurs much lower down a recovery is unlikely , and the accident should be put down either to the failure to maintain a safe airspeed at low altitudes , or to bad planning leading to a situation from which a crash is almost unavoidable .
2 A growing menace in Verdon is the determination of many climbers to lower down a pitch and then be top-roped up it .
3 Father was a Baldersdale man , born and bred , brought up at Hury , lower down the Dale .
4 Lower down the organisation , recruitment was no easier .
5 Individuals lower down the organisation may be given little responsibility with few decisions delegated down the organisation to them .
6 The decentralisation of the decision-making processes where power is given to those lower down the organisation .
7 Middle management will have power over those lower down the organisation if middle management determines pay , promotion and bonuses .
8 Thus , if an official lower down the organisation can influence those at the top to move in a certain direction then we could designate that person a leader .
9 Where there is an increasing use of decentralised structures and accountability we would expect individuals lower down the organisation to take on more responsibility .
10 For one thing , teaching and examination styles have changed dramatically lower down the school system .
11 He would teach the senior pupils with the aid of an assistant mistress , leaving the little ones lower down the school to learn their early lessons from children older than themselves — this was the ‘ monitor ’ system , widely adopted and potentially very successful .
12 Yes , we have had other school groups but they , this is the thing , this , I mean , it could happen with you , as , as people move on and leave school er you need to encourage people lower down the school to get interested and then , then it 'll , it 'll carry on otherwise they tend to drop .
13 But why should n't staff put the same process into operation lower down the school ?
14 That the members of the department consider the value of using all the resources of the department , when , where and if necessary , for example , use of slides with groups lower down the school .
15 Though the great majority of students never became deeply involved in radical activity , those who did , together with pupils lower down the education ladder , made up over half the 7,000–8,000 political offenders of the 1860s and 1870s .
16 Lower down the hierarchy and , apparently , quite independently of his seniors , the young William Armstrong ( who was to head the Treasury in the 1960s and the Civil Service in the 1970s ) was , as Brook 's private secretary , trying to make sense of the proliferation of committees , some of which had been inherited from the Coalition while others had been created at a considerable rate by the new government .
17 People lower down the hierarchy can only make claims if the deceased did not have relatives who rank above them ; and a distinction is made between full and half-blood relatives , the former having prior claims ( Cretney , 1984 , pp. 698–700 ) .
18 In some cases this appears to have been due to privileged access to knowledge not yet available to those lower down the hierarchy , as in cases where plans were in preparation for the closure , merging or reorganisation of schools being proposed .
19 Historians lower down the hierarchy were expected to work within the guidelines advanced by their superiors .
20 Whether managers lower down the hierarchy pursue the profit goal depends in large part on organisational structure and the values imposed from above , though this is not to underestimate the problems of organisational design or the difficulties involved in ensuring compliance with those values .
21 Thus , a principal function of top management is to co-ordinate and monitor the efforts of those lower down the hierarchy .
22 While such pressures will no doubt improve performance within the company generally , they are , however , likely to be at their least effective in increasing efficiency at the most senior level , since there , by definition , managers have little scope for promotion , and managers lower down the hierarchy have no power to unseat their superiors .
23 Lower down the scale comes the offence of possessing an offensive weapon without lawful authority or excuse , contrary to the Prevention of Crime Act 1953 .
24 There will not be much re-nationalisation , for example , and the top rate of tax will not be as high as it was under Mr Healey ( although it will start much lower down the scale ) .
25 There will be at least three , and perhaps four , spaces to fill ; so there will also be an influx of new faces lower down the scale .
26 ‘ It illustrates the gulf that is developing and the problems clubs lower down the scale have keeping themselves viable on a full-time basis .
27 In their turn , the stronger and financially sounder tenant farmers , or lairds , would extract money and labour from those a step lower down the scale .
28 Greek images were also used by physiognomists and ethnologists when they began to create racist classification systems which placed the Greek profile as the highest development of humanity , above Jewish people with African peoples lower down the scale , represented so as to approximate their profiles with those of primates and apes at the bottom .
29 Lower down the chain it was plain and simple buck-passing .
30 From the road , Leck Fell declines in a mile-long slope to Ease Gill and its main concentration of potholes are reached in a ten-minute walk ; others , much lower down the slope , form part of the Ease Gill cave system and are too far to be visited if Gragareth is also in the itinerary .
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