Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] the rate " in BNC.
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| 1 | Between the depth and master volume is the manual switch for the chorus , while the ‘ effect on ’ light sits between the rate and depth pots . |
| 2 | In the standard account of expansionary monetary policy illustrated in Figure 7.6 , the economy is seen to move from point A to point B very quickly owing to the immediate impact that the increase in the supply of money has upon the rate of interest . |
| 3 | The sociological question here , then , is the way that black people are integrated into white society and the effect that their separate cultural identity has on the rate of integration . |
| 4 | Temperature is an important factor in rates of chemical weathering , both through the direct effect it has on the rate of chemical reactions ( see Section 6.2.2 ) , and indirectly through its influence on rates of organic activity and hence the production of both soil carbon dioxide and organic acids — both critical components in chemical weathering . |
| 5 | ‘ Did you know ’ , Matilda said suddenly , ‘ that the heart of a mouse beats at the rate of six hundred and fifty times a minute ? ’ |
| 6 | This presupposes that given a low level of development of the productive forces , and a correspondingly low level of consumption by producers , a significant rate of growth not only depends upon the rate of investment but also upon an increase in the consumption of the direct producers . |
| 7 | In contrast , the real-balance effect exerts a direct influence on the level of spending independently of what happens to the rate of interest . |
| 8 | The volume of sediment that accumulates in a basin depends on the rates of subsidence , sediment supply and sediment removal . |
| 9 | The value of your eventual cash sum and monthly premiums depends on the rate of inflation over the period of the Plan . |
| 10 | The effectiveness of this method depends on the rate of reaction between the odorant and the ozone and is not suitable therefore for odour abatement where the rate of reaction is too slow . |
| 11 | The gastric peptic activity derives from a diversity of intracellular enzymes whose activity depends on the rate of secretion and the ambient pH . |
| 12 | This depends on the rate of slug production , which is sensitive to the disturbance level . |
| 13 | Exactly how much less is impossible to state accurately as it depends on the rate of rainfall and consequent flows in different parts of the catchment , as well as on the water levels in the dams . |
| 14 | The waste arrives at the rate of up to seven tanker-loads every day — that is seven lorries passing thousands of doorsteps . |
| 15 | In work which addresses the impact of the Women 's Liberation Movement on female crime rates , Box and Hale ( 1984 ) found that increases in the rate of female unemployment were significantly related to increases in the rate of conviction for violent crime ( assault and wounding ) , theft , handling stolen goods and fraud . |
| 16 | These included ( i ) increases of between 10 and 25 per cent for electricity , petrol , public transport and postal charges ; ( ii ) increases in the rates of value added tax by 2 per cent ; and ( iii ) surcharges of 7 per cent on taxes paid in 1989 on professional incomes and company profits . |
| 17 | When church statistics paint a picture of general decline , a movement which grows at the rate of two congregations each week is a striking feature . |
| 18 | The Araceae family also includes the world 's most troublesome weed — the water-lettuce , which grows at the rate of one tonne per acre per day in the tropics and is an expensive hazard . |
| 19 | He smiles at the rate of two slight elevations of the edges of the lips every half hour . |
| 20 | Because if the marginal utility of future consumption relative to present consumption differs from the rate at which households can convert current spending power into future spending power by saving and lending this money out at interest , households could improve their long-run utility by saving and lending a different amount . |
| 21 | The table below shows the extent to which the amount of radioactive fallout from the Windscale cloud in 16 English counties ( as measured by the iodine-131 fallout ) correlates with the rate of leukaemia deaths . |
| 22 | Thus in Figure 17.3(b) , the supply of bills on offer by the discount houses to the Bank falls as the rate of rediscount rises ( the supply curve of bills by the discount houses is upward sloping ) . |
| 23 | The effect of a progressive personal taxation system may be exacerbated by high levels of price inflation in which the rate of increase in personal allowances lags behind the rate of change in prices and incomes . |
| 24 | Note that , although the current approach to monetary policy focuses on the rate of interest in order to affect the demand for money , this approach is still backed up by measures to control the money supply . |
| 25 | The assumptions used in these valuations vary according to local conditions , but depend heavily upon the assumed excess of investment returns over the rate of increase in pensionable pay . |
| 26 | That generation now dies at the rate of 150,000 people a year which makes coronary artery disease Britain 's number 1 illness ; a generation that has died of ignorance , indifference and arrogance . |
| 27 | The extra gravitational attraction of such a large number of black holes could explain why our galaxy rotates at the rate it does : the mass of the visible stars is insufficient to account for this . |