Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [prep] [art] low " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Scottish Sports Council identified the need to examine reasons contributing to the low numbers of women involved in sports coaching . |
| 2 | The expectation was that the losses sustained by the low cover price would be more than made up by the larger circulation and by advertising . |
| 3 | Brassicas , for example , can then be netted against pigeons , or carrots surrounded by a low fence of plastic sheeting to repel root fly . |
| 4 | Edging away from him , she felt her legs collide with the low shelving , and realised with a jolting shock that she had backed herself into a corner . |
| 5 | The deep rumbling of the explosions dying down to a hissing of falling dust , everything grew quiet , and the twenty or so survivors collapsed against a low wall to get their breath back . |
| 6 | " Unless it rains , I do n't believe there are going to be any animals left in the low veld by September " , he said . |
| 7 | ‘ Eejits , ’ he said quietly , as he looked at the bantams roosting on a low perch . |
| 8 | Optical aids prescribed by a low vision specialist will be described later in this section of the book . |
| 9 | A high proportion of the oldest books are Gospel books or Psalters , several of them with vernacular glosses and translations testifying to a low level of Latinity ; testifying too to their close connection with the Anglo-Saxon dynasty in the gifts of such benefactors as King Athelstan . |
| 10 | This sequential reduction of pressure stage by stage is carried out , initially , at the ten national offtakes , then at 78 regional offtakes and finally at local district outstations feeding into the low pressure network . |
| 11 | In November 1989 tea farmers protested about the low prices paid by the Kenya Tea Development Authority , and on Jan. 9 , 1990 , Moi ruled that tea farmers would be paid KSh3.00 per kg , a substantial increase on the former rate of KSh1.90 . |
| 12 | There are also statutory covenants requiring landlords , of properties let at a low rent , to ensure that they are both fit for human habitation at the start of the tenancy and are kept fit for habitation throughout the lease : |
| 13 | Sometimes tannin removers consist of a low concentrate sodium hypochlorite or common bleach . |
| 14 | Although the markets served by those businesses remained at a low level throughout 1992 , it is believed that our European aggregates businesses will become a significant contributor to the Group in the medium term . |
| 15 | This substantial and carefully argued paper deals with a number of thorny methodological issues , such as defining the scope and relevant contexts of the syntactic variable ( see 7.4.1 ) and problems associated with the low frequency of particular verbs . |
| 16 | One particular focus of attention in the debate about poverty was family poverty , and particularly the problems faced by the low wage earner . |
| 17 | Villages floated up on either bank , with trees crowding round the low jumble of houses . |
| 18 | Iran-US relations remained at a low ebb during 1989 and early 1990 despite the new regime in Iran and US efforts under the new administration of President George Bush to come to terms with the Iranian government . |
| 19 | You 'll see that the majority of patients fall into the low risk group with progressively smaller numbers in the intermediate and high risk group . |
| 20 | Secular attitudes go with a low proportion of population engaged in family farming and agriculture and a high proportion of women working ( Lesthaeghe 1983 ) . |
| 21 | Batty Wife Cave is in a different category , having no pretensions to shyness nor modesty ; indeed , it thrusts itself upon the notice of passersby on the road just below the Station Inn on the north side , where a channel of pebbles emerges from a low entrance half-choked by stones and normally dry . |
| 22 | After the declines in organized stealing around the turn of the century , the number of cattle thefts known to the authorities remained at a low level , with some fluctuations , until the onset of the world depression in 1930 ( Table 3.5 ) . |
| 23 | Our analysis is based on a new lifting surface model which applies the classical aerodynamic solution of the forces acting on a low aspect ratio delta wing to assess the lift and drag associated with a bird 's tail . |
| 24 | Then Israel Hands turned with a low cry of pain . |
| 25 | Conversely , shots taken from a low angle impart a feeling of inferiority or weakness . |
| 26 | Shots taken from a low angle make subjects look forbidding , while a high angle has the opposite effect . |
| 27 | To investigate infant care practices in a small ethnic minority population within Britain that might suggest possible factors contributing to the low incidence of the sudden infant death syndrome in Asian populations . |
| 28 | Instead , plan on using a set of very comfortable chairs spaced round a low round table . |
| 29 | Stephen manoeuvred them away from the formal office seating around his desk towards some more relaxed sofas and chairs grouped around a low table . |
| 30 | The hands applying the leaves to her skin were still now , resting just where the swell of her breasts showed above the low neckline of her blouse . |