Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] at [adj] rate " in BNC.
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| 1 | Curtains that have linings sewn in will require dry cleaning in order to reduce the risk of lining and curtain fabric shrinking at different rates . |
| 2 | Whilst this will allow a degree of variation in applying the Partial Indemnity Clause , nevertheless it is the intention that the Clause should apply in respect of a ) risks underwritten at non-schedule rates , or b ) if at schedule rates solely on account of experience or c ) where the main features of the risk is the number of vehicles rather than the related experience . |
| 3 | PARTIES WELCOME AT SPECIAL RATES — PLEASE NOTE SCHOOL VISITS IN PROGRESS DURING ALL WEEKDAYS EXCEPT SCHOOL HOLIDAYS . |
| 4 | Charges are £270 initial fee , £270 annual charge , and investment dealing at competitive rates . |
| 5 | It is also clear that the prices of different commodities rose at varying rates and at different times . |
| 6 | But between 1850 and 1890 even Austro-Hungary , Norway and Ireland urbanised at this rate , Belgium and the United States at between 0.30 and 0.40 , Prussia , Australia and Argentina at between 0.40 and 0.50 , England and Wales ( still leading by a short head ) and Saxony at over 0.50 per annum . |
| 7 | In terms of the flexible lattice model , one can imagine the polymer and liquid lattices expanding at different rates until a temperature is reached at which the highly expanded liquid lattice can no longer be distorted sufficiently to accommodate the less expanded polymer lattice and form a solution , i.e. the loss in entropy during the distortion becomes so large and unfavourable that phase separation ( LCST ) takes place . |
| 8 | Benefits shown above are for lives assured at normal rates . |
| 9 | Not surprisingly , it was this rule on which the Revenue rested its argument that the taxpayer should be taxed on the full amount of the benefit , even though it was aware that at the time the 1976 Finance Bill was being debated , the then Financial Secretary to the Treasury , Robert Sheldon , expressly stated that the benefit of a school place given at concessionary rates to the child of a teacher at that school would be ‘ assessed on the cost to the employer , which would be very small indeed in this case ’ . |
| 10 | Steps already taken in response to IMF recommendations included the regulation of banks ' capital-to-assets ratio ( January 1991 ) , the freeing of foreign exchange rates ( Feb. 27 ) , electricity and petrol price rises , and a sales tax levied at highest rates on luxury goods ( May 4 ) . |
| 11 | Age Concern England operates a household contents scheme at reasonable rates ( address on page 13 ) . |
| 12 | ‘ My own family was pretty undistinguished , and Stephen had at any rate a respectable reputation in his own field — though I probably overvalued it at the time . |
| 13 | Jobs which should be done by full-time workers paid at proper rates of pay , real jobs to put back dignity into the lives of such , so many of the unemployed . |
| 14 | If things continue at this rate of terror , the white population of South Africa will one day divide into those cowering behind tall walls and those driving mobile-response vehicles . |
| 15 | We do not , for a simple example , examine heat directly but through , for instance , the property it has of causing certain metals to expand at uniform rates : a property which enables us to construct mercury thermometers which are capable , within reasonably precise limits , of measuring heat . |
| 16 | Poland , too , was hard hit by the Depression and , in spite of the developing trade war , Germany had taken advantage of the weak Polish mark to trade at advantageous rates and to become Poland 's main trading partner . |
| 17 | This then provides the background for the next comment made in the text , about the difficulty of proof : the case just discussed is a relatively easy one , since the testator has at any rate made it clear that the coheirs are intended to benefit under his will . |
| 18 | FIG. 1 Lymphocytes in each subset disappear at differing rates from the periphery . |
| 19 | Telephone 0345 700 700 ( calls charged at local rate ) immediately , quoting ‘ Daily Mirror offer ’ . |
| 20 | In the second test zone , oil and gas flowed at daily rates of 1,750 barrels and 13.6 million cubic feet respectively . |
| 21 | The BDDA took up this matter on their behalf and succeeded in getting deaf motorists insured at normal rates with the Ocean Accident and Guaranteed Corporation . |
| 22 | Unlike the stag , the tape-recorder did not get tired and when the tape-recorder roared at high rate , the stag roared less . |
| 23 | * NB For children invoiced at reduced rates , compensation will be paid on a pro-rata basis . |
| 24 | If the devastation continues at current rates , much of the Amazon Rainforest will have been obliterated by the end of the century , now just ten years away . |
| 25 | The cobbles are slightly greasy , so that if an adventurer runs at maximum rate for any reason he must make a successful I test or slip and fall suffering 1 automatic Wound . |
| 26 | The Admiralty agreed in respect of all such vessels to authorise a flat rate increase of £pound1 a month for all seamen over and above the wages set out in the union 's official wage book for 1913 ; the NSFU agreed to " use its utmost endeavour to furnish men required at such rates " . |
| 27 | ‘ We 'll have the pair of you spending the day waving at each other from railway trains at this rate . |
| 28 | The intervention period has been too short All children learn at different rates . |
| 29 | The strategy would be to find that different objects fall at different rates and , likely as not , determine that two variables were mainly responsible — size and the shape of each object . |
| 30 | The Peugeot accelerated , its wipers flashing at double rate against the driving rain . |