Example sentences of "[verb] [art] [adj] rate " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | In 1979 , the Conservative government reduced the standard rate of income tax from 33 per cent to 30 per cent but nearly doubled the standard rate of VAT . |
| 2 | At Tiverton in 1809 they had claimed they had received the same rate for 300 years ! |
| 3 | It is of interest that sucralfate alone was also effective in speeding the healing rate of gastric ulcers and this is in keeping with previous studies on ulcer healing properties of this drug in animal models and in humans . |
| 4 | Management in particular is not about the preservation of the status quo , it is about maintaining the highest rate of change that the organization and the people within it can stand . |
| 5 | Despite the complex set of influences , we would emphasize the high rate of accumulation as the most fundamental factor behind the decline in profitability . |
| 6 | The other , the other thing that we worked , w we 've been working with , and are still working with , erm to take up campaign for tenants in who 're on Supplementary Benefit or Housing Benefit supplement , erm to claim the higher rate heating addition for their flat . |
| 7 | Trust expenses are not deductible in ascertaining the basic rate tax liability of the overseas trustees ( Aikin v MacDonald ( 1894 ) 3 TC 306 ) . |
| 8 | They assume that there is a trade-off between labour-augmenting and capital-augmenting technical progress , and that firms maximize the instantaneous rate of unit cost reduction ( i.e. firms are myopic , or are able to appropriate returns for only one instant ) This ‘ innovation possibility frontier ’ captures the notion of choice but leaves open a number of questions , notably the determination of its shape and location , which must in part result from the deliberate allocation of resources to research and development . |
| 9 | Admittedly we should compare the average rate of inflation for the whole of 1991 with the previous year . |
| 10 | We estimate that , given the current rate under Project 2000 , it will take 14 years before all nurses have that opportunity for advancement . |
| 11 | Whatever the intrinsic merits of these , we are critical of the belief that small businesses can make a big impact on the unemployment problem , given the high rate of business failure . |
| 12 | To achieve this aim , the CAP always guarantees a price for certain types of produce , so that , even if the produce sells at a poor price or is not sold at all , the farmer receives the going rate . |
| 13 | Since reduced pressure also slows the metabolic rate , it too should slow and lengthen a creature 's biological career . |
| 14 | The rate became the central rate in a system of " administered " rates . |
| 15 | Where the aim of the calculations is to estimate the potential rate of genetic change , total variance in breeding success is clearly the relevant measure to use . |
| 16 | Ratios of variation in male and female success can be used to estimate the relative rate at which male and female characteristics can change . |
| 17 | Mr Greenwood , who was the main architect of the currency link , thinks the present rate is about right . |
| 18 | Inflation in December was 59.6 per cent , bringing the annual rate to over 2,500 per cent . |
| 19 | In stable transfections using pSV2neo and G418 selection ( 2 ) and a similar protocol to that described for polybrene ( 2 ) , poly-L-ornithine produced the highest rate of transfection ( 7.0 ± 2.2 10 4 colonies/µg DNA/5 10 5 cells ) , significantly higher than poly-L-lysine ( 1.3 ± 0.6 10 4 colonies/µg DNA/5 10 5 cells ) which gave comparable results to polybrene ( 1.2 ± 0.6 10 4 colonies/µg DNA/5 10 5 cells ) . |
| 20 | said that they would want the basic rate increased by more than 2p , 40 per cent . |
| 21 | Furthermore , from a long-term viewpoint , they are likely to distort and hinder economic progress , and to induce changes in labour market behaviour that raise the natural rate of unemployment in the economy and the costs attaching thereto . |
| 22 | Raise the top rate . |
| 23 | The Sheffield , for example , currently offers the best rate at 12.36 net , but only children whose parents or grandparents are existing savers may open an account and there is a maximum investment of £500 . |
| 24 | The Sheffield , for example , currently offers the best rate at 12.36 net , but only children whose parents or grandparents are existing savers may open an account and there is a maximum investment of £500 . |
| 25 | The Sheffield , for example , currently offers the best rate at 12.36 net , but only children whose parents or grandparents are existing savers may open an account and there is a maximum investment of £500 . |
| 26 | Fifteen , which one of the following does not affect the premium rate . |
| 27 | The argument is that the clubs are in charge of several factors which can affect the over rate , i.e. the balance of the playing staff , the choice of captain , stewarding of sightscreens , etc . |
| 28 | The critical assumption in this model is that the risk-free hedge can earn the risk-free rate of return . |
| 29 | As a result , they suffer the full rate of withholding tax on dividends from foreign subsidiaries . |
| 30 | Government estimates released last year suggest the lowest rate for Council Tax for people living in houses worth less than £40,000 will be £301 . |