Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] a lower " in BNC.
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| 1 | If two assets have the same risk but one of them has a lower return than the other , then it is sold and the proceeds are invested in the other . |
| 2 | ‘ Dragging also depends on size , so if I pick up a bunch of stuff I get a lower dragging sound than if I pick up just one . |
| 3 | Overall , for 90% of the individuals in our sample who had a spell longer than three months , Model I predicts a lower reservation wage in the second period than the first . |
| 4 | When erm you have a lower number . |
| 5 | Erm when you have a lower number . |
| 6 | That we found a lower mortality than expected is not relevant to the paper 's message . |
| 7 | All average rents on our stock across the whole of the south east is twenty seven pounds a week erm , I think is , is the figure now the bulk of that funded down to the old er regime that we had from the housing corporation where we got er , a lot more grant and we had the residual line and the money we 've had to borrow ourselves for the scheme was actually from the corporation themselves that all changed in the ninety eighty eight housing act and we now get a fixed er , sum of monies , it 's fixed percentage of local cost from the housing corporation and the balance has to be borrowed from a private lender just like anybody else going out and and buying a home , if you like er , from a , a bank , from a building society or somebody like that and we have to charge a rent er to the property that will repay that loan and , the way in which we actually do it is , is we charge a lower rent and actually who pays the rent quite substantially below that er , because erm the rent on these properties if we i if we charge what the the housing corporation 's grant as it 's set would be round about ten , twelve pounds more expensive than that . |
| 8 | Assuming a mass of 1.4 M and ; for the pulsar and sin i=1 , we obtain a lower limit of 0.14 M and ; for the mass of the companion . |
| 9 | We run a lower sixth form residential summer school for kids , which has been very popular for the past five years . |
| 10 | Is that okay , shall we try a lower dose ? |
| 11 | most of the changes that have been made to those houses have been er erm at the request of Newton Sherwood District Council , they the the they lifted the room pitch , we had a lower one , they wanted a higher one , erm , and you know , erm , all all basically erm the the although they counted it as a change since application |
| 12 | This does not mean that they have a lower percentage fat content but that the fat present is partly mixed with the liquid that is retained in the cheese . |
| 13 | This is illegal as they have a lower speed rating than the vehicle requires . |
| 14 | The consequences of an inflexible retirement age fell particularly hard on women as they have a lower pension age . |
| 15 | they had no vision of a classless society , erm , personally while I 've no desire to see uniformity , I see no earthly reason why some people because they have a lower income should be compelled to live in inferior and perhaps crowded conditions , whereas the man with five or six or seven times their income can choose a larger house in a much more delightful district and I think it is things like that that make the difference between what I as a young socialist agitator was advocating and what we find today . |
| 16 | They have a lower pupil/teacher ratio than any other type of school : 6.3 to 1 in the United Kingdom in 1987–8 ( Government Statistical Service , 1989 , Tables 14 and 15 ) . |
| 17 | They have a lower level of seats , like the new East Stand , but instead of an upper level of seats they have executive boxes for the assorted reptilia who frequent such places . |
| 18 | ‘ The seating on older buses is replaced to make it comfortable and the buses are easier for people to get on and off as they have a lower floor . ’ |
| 19 | Some firms like BP try to use as much North Sea crude as possible , because it has a lower sulphur content than Arabian Gulf oil . |
| 20 | In particular , it has a lower jaw so loosely connected with the upper that it can be pushed forward like a long narrow spoon . |
| 21 | It can be seen that human sweat is actually hypotonic ie it contains a lower salt concentration than the plasma . |
| 22 | We might even discover that he uses a lower number of abstract nouns than other writers of his time . |
| 23 | If he opts for a basic valuation , for which he pays a lower fee than for either of the other two , he will normally receive a copy . |
| 24 | It had a lower recorded crime rate per 100,000 people than any of the 41 police areas in England and Wales . |
| 25 | The fact that he had a lower sex drive than she did was n't considered unreasonable behaviour . |
| 26 | Nevertheless , there are two reasons why society may wish to use a lower discount rate in public sector investment projects , thus requiring them to earn a lower rate of return than in private industry . |
| 27 | Some of us have a lower threshold of boredom ; some have a better physical metabolism ; others have a lower resistance to cold ; and so on . |