Example sentences of "[verb] at [adj] rate " in BNC.
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| 1 | This then provides the background for the next comment made in the text , about the difficulty of proof : the case just discussed is a relatively easy one , since the testator has at any rate made it clear that the coheirs are intended to benefit under his will . |
| 2 | It 'll never dry at this rate . ’ |
| 3 | Now it would be invidious of me to er , speak at any rate at this juncture , er , on resolution two , that is the appointment of honorary officers , but I understand that Elizabeth Davies er , is ready to propose it . |
| 4 | Unlike the stag , the tape-recorder did not get tired and when the tape-recorder roared at high rate , the stag roared less . |
| 5 | From the shareholder 's point of view , dividends are taxed at higher rate than capital gains ( even though the marginal rates are identical ) . |
| 6 | Images scanned and printed on a 300dpi system using 32 levels of grey look surprisingly good ; better than you might expect at any rate . |
| 7 | She seemed at any rate , to satisfy lodgers . |
| 8 | But between 1850 and 1890 even Austro-Hungary , Norway and Ireland urbanised at this rate , Belgium and the United States at between 0.30 and 0.40 , Prussia , Australia and Argentina at between 0.40 and 0.50 , England and Wales ( still leading by a short head ) and Saxony at over 0.50 per annum . |
| 9 | However , there are many women who are still paying at this rate . |
| 10 | Sometimes biblical chant sounds too much like adaptation from simple anthropological textbooks , but we can see at any rate the exemplification of the way in which Lawrence 's ‘ capering redskins ’ had to be for Eliot now ‘ Life ’ but ‘ not the last word , only the first ’ . |
| 11 | Bottlenose dolphins have a heart rate of 80–90 beats per minute just after ‘ blowing ’ , slowing within a few seconds to 33–45 beats per minute and remaining at that rate until the next blow . |
| 12 | EUROPEAN CASE MARKET GROWS AT SLOWER RATE |
| 13 | By the time I got to the city centre I was sweating all over — I 'd get to stink at this rate . |
| 14 | If the weather went on deteriorating at this rate there 'd be plenty of the latter around Gullholm . |
| 15 | Erm I mean one one fact that emerged after the the riots , when the actual arrest figures were were analyzed , was that the vast majority of people who were arrested at any rate , did n't come from the area . |
| 16 | Henceforth , the Bank of England would set short-term interest rates and banks would be free to compete to supply whatever quantity of lending was demanded at that rate . |
| 17 | If things continue at this rate of terror , the white population of South Africa will one day divide into those cowering behind tall walls and those driving mobile-response vehicles . |
| 18 | The adventurers can run ( and this means running at maximum rate , not standard movement ! ) . |
| 19 | Some women found at any rate a sanctuary behind the veil , but a convent was more likely to be a hell of rebellion and constraint to her . |
| 20 | If I 'm to drive you home afterwards we 'll have to leave as soon as we arrive at this rate . ’ |
| 21 | They Near at any rate . |
| 22 | New members enrolled from September get three months free but must pay at 1987 rate . |
| 23 | New members enrolled from September get three months free but must pay at 1987 rate . |
| 24 | Some tracks are littered with hundreds of carcasses signifying an immense extension of the famine if the remaining livestock continues to die at this rate . |
| 25 | Still , Newbolt at any rate was able to understand something of what was at stake . |
| 26 | We 're progressing at great rate of knots at the moment . |
| 27 | Calls are charged at local rate . |
| 28 | Telephone 0345 700 700 ( calls charged at local rate ) immediately , quoting ‘ Daily Mirror offer ’ . |
| 29 | By taking seriously Eliot 's debt to the French symbolistes ( as before him only Allen Tate had done , in The New Republic , 30 June 1926 ) , Wilson was still stressing Eliot 's Americanness by showing at any rate how un-British he was . |
| 30 | It had left at any rate a forcible temporary effect upon his own more cautious but equally human complacency . |