Example sentences of "[noun pl] at [adj] rates " in BNC.
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| 1 | The vast Butlins holiday camp just minutes from the town centre ( and the Place St Maur des Fosses ) offers the clowns self-catering chalets at bargain-basement rates . |
| 2 | Fig. 4.8 shows two responses of a motor to a series of steps at different rates . |
| 3 | Or perhaps there are schemes for the disabled to rent computers at lower rates ? |
| 4 | Some dealers worried the so-called ‘ repo ’ rate would rise after the Bundesbank asked banks to bid for funds at variable rates rather than the fixed 8.25 per cent set in recent tenders . |
| 5 | We need to ensure an ample and steady flow of mortgage funds at competitive rates as a principal service to our borrowers |
| 6 | At least financial agencies have some pressure to provide funds at competitive rates , and builders to guard against pricing themselves out of the market , but landowners just have to sit on the land until they get the price they demand . |
| 7 | We have regular arrangements with some of our clients at loss-leader rates to maintain name recognition for our commercial work . ’ |
| 8 | Powersafe 's services are available to P&O Group companies at discounted rates . |
| 9 | The well , EMK-1 [ LASMO 25 per cent ] , tested oil and gas from two zones at combined rates up to 3,729 bopd plus 17.3 mmcfd . |
| 10 | • Offering midweek packages at competitive rates • Creating an autumn-winter weekend break package and Christmas programme , and promoting them by sending a mailshot to all past guests . |
| 11 | The use of the New Workers ' Scheme ( discontinued in 1989 ) which subsidised employers who agreed to take on young workers at low rates of pay and the similar effect of the Jobstart Scheme for the long term unemployed . |
| 12 | Commercial banks were now allowed to trade directly with overseas dealers at competitive rates . |
| 13 | And , unlike many firms , Dunedin charges dealing costs at institutional rates , usually around 0.2% to 0.25% as opposed to , say , 1.65% . |
| 14 | What emerges from an attempt to answer the last question is that the known low-cost reserves will have been significantly run down by 2025 , but total reserves are large , sufficient to last for more than 400 years at present rates of consumption , according to one estimate . |
| 15 | These would best be resolved by a form of cost-benefit which pays close attention to the social ‘ externalities ’ involved in investment projects , which compares the time profiles of return on projects competing for resources at non-usurious rates of discount , and which does not operate with the technocratic pretension that all factors in an investment decision can be rigorously quantified ( i.e. which does not disguise as purely technical questions matters which should properly be open to political debate ) . |
| 16 | ( The Portuguese had removed the prohibition on the import of English woollen goods , under the terms of the Methuen Treaty of 1703 , only on condition that England admitted their wines at preferential rates . ) |
| 17 | And if you tire of tacos , nachos , re-fried beans and Guacamole there are plenty of American-style bars and burger joints offering huge portions at cheap rates . |
| 18 | From 7 December , National Savings has made available new issues of Savings Certificates , Capital Bonds and Children 's Bonus Bonds at lower rates . |
| 19 | Only one company is known to be still selling bonds at pre-election rates . |
| 20 | The Commission found that the various vertical practices , including brewers ' imposition of exclusive purchase obligations for a range of products including beer ( the ‘ tied house ’ ) , and connected with this , the use of loans at preferential rates of interest , ‘ prevent , restrict and distort competition from the point of view of both suppliers and consumers ’ ( p. 250 , para 11.21 ) . |
| 21 | The establishment of the Bank of England in 1694 meant that the government was now assured of loans at favourable rates , but always on a Parliamentary basis , since the Bank was forbidden to lend without Parliament 's approval . |
| 22 | Giving loans at low rates of interest is only one advantage — although a significant one . |
| 23 | At a meeting with US Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady on April 12 , the EBRD 's president , Jacques Attali , proposed that the bank be allowed to make loans at concessionary rates for restructuring the region 's poorest economies and for the conversion of military factories to civilian use . |
| 24 | Immigrants were , thus , forced to seek accommodation in the inner city , either renting privately or buying large deteriorating houses , usually with short-term loans at high rates of interest . |
| 25 | It also offered tax-free loans at high rates of interest to Army officers as well as tax-free and high-interest investments to businessmen and members of Santiago society connected with the Army and the CNI . |
| 26 | We have included one quarter at 1989 rates and three quarters at 1990 rates . |
| 27 | The CIB helps by maintaining the membership records and providing Institute publications at discounted rates . |
| 28 | He was selling Gary Druer from Travel Enterprise rooms at rock-bottom rates , and Gary was retailing them to the client for top whack , trading on our reputation . |
| 29 | For deliveries to most long-distance destinations at reduced rates ( Europe from 10 working days , to the rest of the world from 20 working days ) |
| 30 | Because they 've been good boys we 've helped them extend their landholdings and they lease it back to their own peasants at exorbitant rates — that 's why their own people call them pirates . " |