Example sentences of "on [art] low [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As they passed in its shadow Alison remarked on the low floodwalls before the cottages . |
| 2 | leader of Britain 's private schools on the low levels of funding of state schools . |
| 3 | The farm is one of the best in the county and its steading high above Dunure is a well-known landmark for all who sail on the lower reaches of the Clyde estuary . |
| 4 | ‘ To reduce the problems of air pollution , the company has adopted the practice of layering the coal bunkers on the locomotives so that the limited supplies of dry steam coal are burnt at Llanberis and on the lower reaches of the line , and the Warwickshire coals are only fired above Hebron Station . |
| 5 | At the other extremity of southern Siberia , a number of peoples on the lower reaches of the Amur river , such as the Nanais , Ulchas , Udeghes and Nivkhs , as well as the Itelmens and the Ainu of Kamchatkan lived in the forest , moving between winter and summer villages , making much use of dugout or plank-built boats , and feeding themselves largely by catching fish . |
| 6 | On the lower reaches of glaciers and on ice shelves close to the sea , where ablation exceeds snowfall in summer , wind-blown dust and rock fragments encourage local melting . |
| 7 | Gould had only a couple of weeks to spare here ( he had been delayed a week in Maitland on the lower reaches of the Hunter while he waited to meet up with Stephen Coxen ) , having promised Eliza to forsake his desire to continue collecting , and to return in time for the delivery of their child . |
| 8 | The marshes on the lower reaches of the Tigris and Euphrates cover an area of up to 17,000 square kilometres and provide a refuge for Shia opponents of Saddam 's regime . |
| 9 | The larger books ( folio ) are often grouped together on the lower shelves of a particular stack or in a separate sequence of shelves . |
| 10 | There were some granulomatous area on the lower edges of the lungs , possibly caused by migrating worms , but these seemed to be old lesions and not evidence of a newly acquired disease . |
| 11 | Two of them , Pompeii and Herculaneum , which were located on the lower flanks of Vesuvius , were particularly badly shaken by the shocks , and some damage was done , but the townspeople were not especially alarmed . |
| 12 | An extraordinary character , Kellet was a conscientious objector working in the forest on the lower flanks of the mountain . |
| 13 | Minor silica veinlets within faulted trachyte flows on the lower flanks of Paka volcano have U-series ages of 644kyr and 815kyr . |
| 14 | For this they grow large amounts of fodder crops on fields in the main valleys or on the lower margins of the uplands . |
| 15 | We found ourselves lost , just as Masha and I had been when a sudden mist had descended on the lower slopes of the Wetterhorn . |
| 16 | BERGÈRES-LES-VERTUS : The accumulation of loess and colluvial weathered deposits of calcareous , clayey-silt and iron-bearing flinty soils radiating out from Vertus is found on the lower slopes of Bergères-les-Vertus , but the bulk of this village 's vineyards are to be found on Belemnite chalk , with sand on some of the higher slopes . |
| 17 | The vineyards of Oiry are located well away from the village on the lower slopes of the Butte de Saran at a level of between 100 and 120 metres . |
| 18 | Although this village is situated on the plains south-west of Bergères-les-Vertus , its vineyards can be found on the lower slopes of the southern tip of the Côte des Blancs and Mount Aimé . |
| 19 | The population is now reduced to living on the lower slopes of the western highlands which is one of the most beautiful areas of China . |
| 20 | A yak on the lower slopes of the peak of Nuptse . |
| 21 | Throughout the Sixties , Léonard , a big burly man of massive dedication , sold off the flatter vineyards and bought steep ones on the lower slopes of the Vosges mountains . |
| 22 | By mid-afternoon they were on the lower slopes of Lustley Foin . |
| 23 | ‘ It is on the lower slopes of Mount Ararat , ’ Miss Fergusson responded . |
| 24 | ( Although in Trob the last word in fact became ‘ a thing which may happen but once in the usable lifetime of a canoe hollowed diligently by axe and fire from the tallest diamondwood tree that grows in the noted diamondwood forests on the lower slopes of Mount Awayawa , home of the firegods or so it is said . ’ ) . |
| 25 | Ali Mirza , of the Pakistan Mountaineering Association , there has been a build-up of waste , some of it toxic , on the lower slopes of the most popular peaks , including unburied bodies of fallen climbers . |
| 26 | On the lower rungs of the ladder of middle-class aspiration , the answer is easy . |
| 27 | It is recommended that hose-reels should be provided when appropriate and sited so as to be able to be deployed effectively on the lower levels of all racked or stacked materials and to provide consistent cover to the floor area of the building . |
| 28 | On the lower parts of the marsh , which are most frequently covered by the tide , accretion at the rate of almost 1 cm per year has been recorded at Scolt Head Island , while at higher levels , where the frequency of flooding by the tide is less , this is reduced to one half or less of the rate at the lowest levels . |
| 29 | The house was much too small ; people made a deep ring round the couple and Cameron , standing on the cobbles among piles of bar and rod iron , the children perched on tree-stumps and on the lower branches of the very old yew tree which made a dark thicket with its multiple trunks . |
| 30 | He also says that Caesar started off in the lower classes and built himself up to where he stood and could only look down on the lower classes by turning his back on his friends and former colleagues . |