Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [prep] the rate " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ( 2 ) Throughout your occupation you will pay rent calculated at the rate of £ per annum payable on demand in advance ( but periodic demands shall not convert this tenancy into a periodic tenancy ) . |
| 4 | The value of your eventual cash sum and monthly premiums depends on the rate of inflation over the period of the Plan . |
| 5 | On the other hand , the low prospective profitability could be due to the enterprise becoming trapped in a clearly sub-optimal line of production , i.e. one in which consumers were simply not willing to pay a price for the commodity sufficient to cover its costs of production ( including the opportunity cost of investment funds expressed in the rate of interest charged by the national investment bank ) . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Had the national insurance pensions been increased by an additional £5 a week over and above the inflation rate , and supplementary benefit uprated by the rate of inflation only , then virtually all of the 1.4 million claimants would no longer be entitled to supplementary benefit . |
| 9 | During the period 1990-90 , urban areas expanded at the rate of 11,000 ha per year . |
| 10 | And with beer drinking declining at the rate of 10 per cent in the South East and five per cent in the North , breweries have realised they must cut prices . |
| 11 | ‘ Did you know ’ , Matilda said suddenly , ‘ that the heart of a mouse beats at the rate of six hundred and fifty times a minute ? ’ |
| 12 | The waste arrives at the rate of up to seven tanker-loads every day — that is seven lorries passing thousands of doorsteps . |
| 13 | If these rates were maintained then , with population growing at the rate of 1 per cent a year , each generation could expect to be roughly twice as well off as its parents and four times as well off as its grandparents . |
| 14 | Council housing stocks dwindling at the rate of 200 a year ( Tory policy of course ) . |
| 15 | Wilkinson looked at the rate at which starved vampires lose weight . |
| 16 | Less understandable was the willingness to allow the duty on diesel to rise by the rate of inflation rather than slash it . |
| 17 | This interpretation is supported by the relationship observed between the rate of movement of individual plates and the length of subduction zones along their margins . |
| 18 | Furphy , whose recent past included a spell in the United States , ( where a high flyer leisure executive delivered the ‘ amazing ’ one liner , which has stuck in his mind to this day ) is the hands on marketing man whose job it is to oversee the vast membership growth that is enabling Lloyd to expand at the rate of two clubs per year . |
| 19 | If inflation continued at the rate of 5% per annum , then by 1 January , 1992 each £100 original nominal value of the bond would be worth £110.25 and the interest due thereon in that year would be £2.205 . |
| 20 | N ( d 1 ) may be interpreted as the rate of change of the option price divided by the rate of change of the share price . |
| 21 | In addition the section indicated that the intuitive explanation of N ( d 1 ) was that it was equal to the rate of change in the cell price divided by the rate of change in the share price : . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Sampson and Wooldredge ( 1987 ) , made elegant use of the data from the 1982 British Crime Survey and found that the probability of burglary victimisation and household theft victimisation increased with the rate of local unemployment . |
| 25 | The indexing is done with respect to a lagged value of the RPI and both the increase in capital value ( the uplift ) and the increase in interest payments depend on the rate of change of the price index to a period eight months earlier . |
| 26 | Thus , to give one case example in ten thousand that spring to mind , no psychiatrist in his right mind would pay credence or even attention to the findings , as uncovered by Hans Eysenck some years ago , that patients undergoing psychoanalysis have an improvement rate of 44 per cent , those subject to the effects of other psychotherapy recover at the rate of 64 per cent , and those to whom nothing whatever is done , who receive no treatment at all , are cured at a rate of 72 per cent . |
| 27 | His first job was to calculate when they should finish , how long they should take to plough the whole field , each man ploughing at the rate of three-quarters of an acre in one day . |
| 28 | It was a route she chose originally because she did not have enough capital to expand at the rate business demanded . |
| 29 | The restriction on volume and speed of delivery means that images can only be built up slowly , at a pace determined by the rate at which data arrives at the terminal . |
| 30 | The energy confinement time is the total thermal content of the hot gas divided by the rate of loss of energy from all causes . |