Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] [prep] be lower " in BNC.

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1 Downstream , in light of high product stocks , industry refining margins in the USA and Europe are expected to be lower in the first quarter of 1993 than in the fourth quarter of 1992 .
2 In addition , coelocentesis does not involve puncture of the amniotic membrane and therefore the risk of direct trauma to the embryo or chronic amniotic fluid leakage would be expected to be lower than with amniocentesis .
3 The general effect of these four differences between health and education in relation to economic growth is that it has proved far more difficult and controversial to measure the impact of health on economic growth and where it has been attempted the effects have been estimated to be lower than those resulting from education .
4 The days with one casualty were Sunday 6 January and Sunday 10 February ; on both these days there was snow and traffic volumes were observed to be lower than would have been expected had the weather been fine .
5 A downturn is expected in 1993 since activity is anticipated to be lower as the company does not expect these contracts to be repeated .
6 While the seven sectors examined were expected to continue to create jobs until the end of the decade , that rate of increase is predicted to be lower than in the recent past , as new technology and industrial concentration increase productivity .
7 In plots in the Queensland rain forest , seedling recruitment of subcanopy trees and understorey species was found to be lower for common than for rare species : for canopy species there was no such correlation .
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