Example sentences of "the [adj] [conj] lower [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maps showing monastic estates or baronial holdings ( although few of the latter have been attempted ) serve to demonstrate the administrative focal place function of such sites as motte and bailey castles , ringworks , or small monastic complexes ; at the same time the dependent or lower status of other settlements and surrounding lands is demonstrated by their relatively peripheral position . |
| 2 | The Yorkshire outfit have been producing some good results in their own division , and have lost only one of their eight league games so far , but we saw the big gulf in scoring power between some of the first and lower division clubs in the county competitions and York look to be facing something of a Mission Impossible . |
| 3 | If the sales mix and the profit margins of the two products are different this causes problems because while overall sales volumes targets may be achieved total contribution will vary depending upon whether the higher or lower margin product dominates the sales mix . |
| 4 | Assume that a test marketing exercise can be carried out , at a cost of £10k , to establish whether the higher or lower market share is the more likely . |
| 5 | Assume that a test marketing exercise can be carried out , at a cost of £10k , to establish whether the higher or lower market share is the more likely . |
| 6 | The invention consists essentially of a system of lifts each formed by a wet dock wherein the vessel to be transported is waterborne , the dock being mounted on a wheeled carriage adapted to support the dock horizontally and to run on inclined railways extending between the higher and lower water levels , the ways being transverse to the length of the dock which travels broadside on so as to admit of a short length of wheel base and a steep grade . |
| 7 | Thus they chose the flatter and lower ground where the canals lay . |
| 8 | The upper or lower strand , alternatively , of this DNA duplex was 5'-endlabelled with [ 32 P ] as indicated by asterisks in the header of Figure 5 . |
| 9 | Either the upper or lower summary X values could be used to find the intercept : a = Y R - bX R , for example . |
| 10 | Allocation was weighted so that there were 30 controls in order to form a solid baseline and 20 mice each irradiated to the upper or lower mediastinum . |
| 11 | My talk with Quintin had more content since he said that if another peer came down from the Upper House he would withdraw from public life whether he was in the Upper or Lower House . |
| 12 | As gastrointestinal symptoms or signs may be non-specific two or more features related to either the upper or lower tract were considered necessary to suggest the site of possible disease . |
| 13 | Last night we camped a metre short of the border , a beautiful spot between the upper and lower Sorjus lakes . |
| 14 | To complete the back of the chair it only remains to insert the three vertical splats , once again marking the shoulders off from the upper and lower back rail . |
| 15 | If the map area is represented by a matrix of cells , then the shading level in each cell can be approximated by a printable character ( the upper and lower case letters A , B , C , … , |
| 16 | Because we used the upper and lower summary points in finding the slope , the a L and a R estimates will always be the same . |
| 17 | Also in 1965 the Environmental Science Services Administration ( ESSA ) was instituted in the United States and its concern with the interactions among air , sea and earth and between the upper and lower atmosphere embraces the scope of physical geography , although a physical geographer was not significantly involved in the early stages ( Hare , 1966 ) . |
| 18 | Dividers and padded dividers or trimmers are handled : enter input and output voltage , and the upper and lower arm values are listed . |
| 19 | But in many circuits , significant source and load resistances will need factoring out from the upper and lower arm values respectively ( and scaled pro-rata ) , otherwise the implied accuracy will be false ) . |
| 20 | It comprised , for each wing , a 2.5-inch wide curved aluminium strip fastened chordwise to the upper and lower wing surfaces to cover the inboard and outboard attachments for the wing fuel tank ; shaped fairings covering the three flap hinges beneath the wing lower surface ; a 2-inch wide thin aluminium sheet pop-riveted to the wing undersurface and covering the gap between the flap and the wing undersurface ; and a similar 4-inch wide sheet covering the gap between the aileron and the wing undersurface . |
| 21 | From Vitznau the boat passes through a narrow channel formed between two promontories from the north and south shores , called the Upper and Lower Nose respectively . |
| 22 | The areas under the normal curve outside the upper and lower design limits shown in Figure 7.5 represent the probability of items in that batch being unusable . |
| 23 | The areas under the normal curve outside the upper and lower design limits shown in Figure 7.5 represent the probability of items in that batch being unusable . |
| 24 | One of diet expert Judith Wills 's movements — lying on your back and raising the upper and lower body — could slip a disc , Watchdog claims . |
| 25 | The falls are the upper and lower Cauldron Falls . |
| 26 | Just as the marine terrace represents the abandoned sea floor , so do river terraces represent valley floors abandoned by the rivers as they start to cut down to the new and lower base level . |