Example sentences of "[noun sg] at [det] rate " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or Quota at any rate you know . |
| 2 | Once one thinks in terms of the man on the one hand , and his writings on the other , one is surprise , even , I think , puzzled and disconcerted , by the disparity , the apparent disparity at any rate , between , on the one hand , the frequenter of the Faubourg Saint Germain salons , and , on the other , the author of À la Recherche , between the rather eccentric hypochondriac and the observer in the novel of human weakness , erm between perhaps the often precious and whimsical Figaro columnist and the architect of an astonishingly complex and lengthy novel , amounting to something like one and a quarter million words . |
| 3 | As far as beating down and killing went , nothing very much was achieved , for the enemy were now everywhere in flight , such as could run , none staying to fight , not in Ramsay 's sector at any rate . |
| 4 | ‘ I knew right away we 'd have to start preparing for the next one , ’ he told the boys , who were the only ones who 'd listen to him by then , in the home at any rate . |
| 5 | The wicked mood of triumphant secret freedom which had come to her after her first performance of careful deliberate lying to Jack had , for the moment at any rate , left her . |
| 6 | He was cooking ; murder was , for the moment at any rate , not in his thoughts , the sun was at last shining in the way it should do on a seaside holiday , and there were still three more days of holiday to go . |
| 7 | She would have something to tell the Highbury Ladies ' Circle at any rate . |
| 8 | Having put down the bottle , but still entranced by the ( to my nose at any rate ) sweet , dulcet tones of the essence , I decided to take another whiff to convince myself I had not really been dreaming . |
| 9 | the tax at the rate applicable to trusts for the year on the amount so treated as his income ; or 2. so much of the amount of tax at that rate as is equal to the tax charged whichever is the less . |
| 10 | so this is what I 'm saying how come that the she 's still got the poll , we have to , got to pay poll tax at that rate because she 's not working |
| 11 | A fascinating example of this , with hindsight at any rate , is the secret despatch , on Churchill 's instructions , of a small task force to the South Atlantic in February-March 1952 after the Argentine dictator , General Peron , had made threatening noises about the Falklands . |
| 12 | Er , I should also re , remind you so my brief informs me , of the no smoking rule , which was adopted at last year 's er , A G M , and which means there 's no smoking er , in this room at any rate , and certainly not during the meeting . |
| 13 | They were warned of the danger of giving credit — or too much credit at any rate — to mostly illiterate other ranks who were here today and gone tomorrow , and allowing them to run up debts which they had not the slightest chance , or intention , of paying . |
| 14 | huh , ai n't gon na have many on the top at this rate are we ? oh lovely got another one for the top , cracker |
| 15 | This uninviting prospect was offered to a people who , in name at any rate , had tasted independence . |
| 16 | But you , you 're right that if we stick to somewhere between six hundred and seven hundred as , as a erm even a basic kind of subsistence I E you 've just got enough in just , you , you 're just not using enough food to get yourself up to two hundred , two thousand calories a day at that rate you were still being taxed on , a at a rate of almost twenty percent of your , of your income . |
| 17 | He was altogether more interested , on the surface at any rate , in what he found there than in what he could observe of people and events around him . |
| 18 | The gaps in our data do not make it possible to say anything of statistical value , merely to point out that the evidence fragmentarily available suggests that it was by no means exceptional for women to be sole breadwinner in a household , usually in three precise sets of circumstances : in widowhood , with or without children ; after marriage when the husband was away , unemployed or chronically sick ; when unmarried , either living alone or — more frequently in our sample at any rate — caring for and responsible for an elderly parent or sick sibling . |
| 19 | That 's three that 's da de da de da okay on the follow oh dear or dear me get writer 's cramp at this rate . |
| 20 | When banks withdraw funds , the Bank of England relieves the resulting discount market shortage at that rate of interest which it thinks appropriate , nudging rates upwards perhaps to reduce the demand for bank lending or lowering them to counteract a rising exchange rate . |
| 21 | ‘ But they say he must n't go home and live on his own , not for a long while at any rate . ’ |
| 22 | It looks as if , in western Francia at any rate , it was possible to reactivate some of the infrastructure of the late Roman state . |
| 23 | Night at any rate you had fine , as we had , with a high clear moon & just a few stars lost here & there among folds of cloud . |
| 24 | Omi had been rather silent , in the flat at any rate , although … . |
| 25 | Today , Finniston runs his own small firm ( small by comparison with British Steel at any rate ) , but at least fifty per cent of his time is now taken up with interests outside the corporate world . |
| 26 | assistant at any rate made water tip straight o out of the and down the wall you could never |
| 27 | Nowadays , with Synodical government , the Church has a greater say in the appointment of its leaders — well , in theory at any rate . |
| 28 | The beauty of Indirect Rule was that it created an administrative situation in which personal influence was , in theory at any rate , the administrator 's only resource . |
| 29 | The object of all communist regimes , in theory at any rate , was to facilitate the transformation of humankind from its distorted and unhappy capitalist condition into a new type of person , ‘ the New Man ’ . |
| 30 | Oh yeah , you 'd , some people would go for some very awkward colours , er green , which is a terrible colour , blue which is another awkward colour , I mean I even get people today asking for blue lamps for their bedrooms , erm I 'm sure they ca n't read in bed at that rate er , erm , it 's an awful colour to use erm and er I suppose |