Example sentences of "[vb -s] the [adj] rate " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Since reduced pressure also slows the metabolic rate , it too should slow and lengthen a creature 's biological career . |
| 3 | Mr Greenwood , who was the main architect of the currency link , thinks the present rate is about right . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | This scheme specifies the maximum rate per mile which may be paid with no benefit-in-kind implications for the employee . |
| 8 | This means Britain has the highest rate of under-age pregnancy in the Western world . |
| 9 | At the time of writing , I understand that the computer training course has the highest rate of job placement for discharged prisoners of any vocational training programme in Texas prisons . |
| 10 | Our multiethnic area has the highest rate of termination of pregnancy , and a literature search showed that we needed to commission research to identify AfroCaribbeans ' perceptions of family planning . |
| 11 | Although stating that sentencing policy is outside its terms of reference , the Woolf report noted the difficulties caused by the fact that the UK has the highest rate of imprisonment in proportion to its population in Europe ( para 10.149 ) . |
| 12 | ‘ And Northern Ireland has the highest rate of suicide in young men between the ages of 16 and 25 . |
| 13 | Anyone who advertises the deferred rate may only do so provided that the APR is more prominent , and they explain all the terms . ’ |
| 14 | Since m is the logarithm of M , the left-hand side of equation ( 7.14 ) measures the proportional rate of change of the money supply . |
| 15 | Thus Lucas measures the unanticipated rate of growth of aggregate demand in the ith country in any period t by the deviation of the actual rate of growth of nominal spending from its mean value over the whole period . |
| 16 | This scenario is purely chemical and omits any material engineering , as well as functional aspects such as enzyme layer permeability which affects the eventual rate of analyte conversion . |
| 17 | If one extrapolates the low-energy rate of increase and decrease of the coupling constants , one finds that the two coupling constants become equal at an energy of about 10 15 GeV . |
| 18 | Exercise raises the metabolic rate , not only at the time of activity , but also for a little while afterwards . |
| 19 | Shivering , a form of involuntary muscular action , raises the metabolic rate and elevates body temperature ; in extreme cases it can quickly raise metabolic rate by a factor of four to five . |
| 20 | The policy inefficacy proposition derives , not from the rational expectations hypothesis , but from the behavioural model which underpins the natural rate hypothesis of the new classical macroeconomics . |
| 21 | If the project appraisal is flawed , or if the project only marginally exceeds the minimum rate of return specified by the organization , it is better that it should fail at the approval stage than be implemented with the risk of subsequent failure . |
| 22 | This requires that the expected return from the short position exceeds the riskless rate . |
| 23 | To induce speculators to take on net long positions , they have to be compensated with an expected return from the long position that exceeds the risk-free rate ; i.e. , their return must include a risk premium . |
| 24 | The order increases the lower rate of SSP by the full retail prices index increase of 4.1 per cent. , from £43.50 to £45.30 a week , while leaving the higher rate unchanged at £52.50 . |
| 25 | is about the expected wage , and he says that people erm , base their decision , a rational mind would base his decision on erm , probability of getting a job times the erm , urban wage rate , equals the expected rate , wage rate , and he 's saying that , because urban wage rates are so much higher , erm , that unemployment rate can also be quite high , and the expected gains can still be positive . |
| 26 | If supply is modelled as a function of this ‘ intertemporal ’ relative price term , one implication is that a permanent rise in the rate of growth of aggregate demand and hence in the rate of inflation may permanently reduce the quantity of output supplied , since it permanently reduces the real rate of return on holding the proceeds from sales in the form of money . |
| 27 | This study shows that treatment of bleeding ulcers with heater probe reduces the rebleeding rate compared with medical conservative management . |
| 28 | In summary , this study shows that compared with medical treatment the heater probe reduces the rebleeding rate in a non-bleeding visible vessel by 62% , there was no death , and complications were minimal . |
| 29 | A Treasury Order which reduces the prescribed rate of default interest from 9.25% to 7.75% came into operation on 6 November . |
| 30 | This study provides evidence that bFGF given parenterally or by an intragastric route is not protective agaisnt the acute gastric lesions induced by topical irritants such as ethanol or aspirin but exerts a significant protection against the stress induced lesions and considerably enhances the healing rate of chronic gastric ulcers . |