Example sentences of "increase [prep] the [adj] rate " in BNC.
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1 | Business leaders accepted , however , that there was scope to make changes to the income tax regime , with the most popular option proving to be an increase in the higher rate of income tax from 40 per cent . |
2 | Cook ( 1983 ) traces the impact of the decision to sell grain to the Soviet Union and the government 's renewed intention to use food as a political weapon , upon the expansion of 27 million acres of arable land and a large increase in the annual rate of soil loss . |
3 | With each increase in the average rate of pay , the minimum wage itself would have to go up and it would be for ever chasing its own tail . |
4 | Securities with betas less than 1 are called defensive shares as a 1 per cent increase in the expected market rate of return is likely to yield a less than 1 per cent increase in the expected rate of return of the security . |
5 | It is one thing to assert that a consequence of sustained expansion of demand will be a direct increase in the expected rate of inflation by a process which efficiently circumvents the gradual error learning mechanism posited by adaptive expectations : individuals will have an incentive to search for the origins of their expectational errors and take the steps appropriate to keeping them to an absolute , unavoidable minimum . |
6 | An increase in the risk-free rate of interest for the period after the delivery of the near contract and before the delivery of the far contract ( r ' ) will increase π . |
7 | The main differences between the final version and the original agreement in September were an increase in the top rate of tax , a smaller reduction in the Medicare budget , and a smaller increase in petrol tax . |
8 | It is noteworthy that those who advocate these policies also themselves concede in surveys that they would welcome an increase in the basic rate of tax as well as other tax increases . |
9 | Will the Government recognise that the only way that many of those pensioners will have a happy and healthy retirement is through a substantial increase in the basic rate of income of at least £5 for a single person and £8 per couple , which is the commitment of the Labour party and which is supported by pensioner groups throughout the country as was shown by a recent lobby of Parliament by pensioners from the north-west which was supported by many Conservative Members ? |
10 | That 's a suggested figure of twelve thousand seven hundred , which imply a building rate of eight hundred and forty six a year , in comparison with the adopted re er rate in the in the adopted plan of six o six and an actual building rate of seven o one , er my re calculation shows that that would be a thirty nine percent increase , over the adopted plan rate , and a twenty one percent increase over the actual rate . |
11 | In comparison the er the the smallest projection put forward by Mr Thomas , would actually result in a twenty one percent decrease in building rates over that approved in the adopted adopted plan , and a thirty two percent increase over the actual rate experienced since nineteen eighty one . |
12 | Again this represents a considerable increase over the national rates whether one considers lymphoid leukaemia and non-Hodgkin lymphomas or all malignant disease and for both 1963–90 and 1984–90 . |
13 | In November 1989 tea farmers protested about the low prices paid by the Kenya Tea Development Authority , and on Jan. 9 , 1990 , Moi ruled that tea farmers would be paid KSh3.00 per kg , a substantial increase on the former rate of KSh1.90 . |