Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] rate [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Within an overall response rate of 68 per cent , then , the response rate for specialist students was 64 per cent , and 69 per cent for conversion students .
2 The response rate of CASE students was 85 per cent .
3 On a hot day the engine-out rate of climb did little for the blood pressure .
4 This is the rate of interest expressed in money terms and is also known as the money rate of interest .
5 These transactions are converted at the contract rate upon expiry .
6 Under Irish and U.S. GAAP , these transactions are converted into Irish pounds at the contract rate upon expiration .
7 I would say to you that the history of North Yorkshire County is that the house house builders have built , more or less the building rate of planning policy , whatever that has been , and that is a matter of fact , and if and if and if we are in a situation where the market is being fettered , as is the policy , and it 's not a policy which we are seeking to go away from specifically , and it is inevitable that the house builders will build to whatever the policy building rate is , and comparisons of one building rate with another are simply telling you what 's happened in the past , not what needs to happen in the future er in terms of meeting the housing requirement , and quite clearly in any area where you are introducing a new settlement , if indeed that 's the conclusion we come to , er late later on , erm and I hope we do , but if we are introducing a new settlement you are bound to skew the building rates , and the more and more you reduce the area in which you consider what the building rate effect is the more and more that it actually gets skewed , er and erm you know , quite frankly , when the developers built a new estate at the end of my particular street the building rate went up alarmingly in my area , er and er you know , we can go on forever like that , I just think it 's very misleading to just deal with the judgement of building rates .
8 The current project is imposing lexical , syntactic and semantic constraints on the input to enhance the recognition rate of text processing systems .
9 Recent events have not changed the picture , with the welcome fall in the headline rate of inflation last month balanced by a further slight fall in sterling .
10 Cheaper home loans , food and the post-Christmas reductions on a host of household goods pushed the headline rate of price increases for January down from 2.6 per cent in December .
11 A higher ratio of the concentration rate of protein to that of bile acids in gall bladder to hepatic beile as seen in the cholesterol gall stone patients than the gall stone free patients ( 0.75 ( 1.02 ) v 0.15 ( 0.11 ) , p<0.05 ) .
12 The two most commonly referred to traditional techniques are the accounting rate of return on capital employed ( ROCE ) and the payback period .
13 However , it also reveals that there is evidence that some analysts are still using less justifiable approaches such as the accounting rate of return and payback .
14 Increasing the spring rate of stiffness too much is not a good idea as it transmits forces into the chassis for which is was not designed and the vehicle is also uncomfortable to drive .
15 On consolidation , the assets and liabilities of overseas subsidiary and associated undertakings are translated at the completion rate of exchange .
16 On consolidation , the assets and liabilities of overseas subsidiary and associated undertakings are translated at the completion rate of exchange .
17 The first , short-lived erosional event ( unit II ) is represented by a small peak in in the south basin , where the accumulation rate of sediment , averaged over the relevant Thiessen polygons , was 29.213.6gm -2 yr -1 ( Table 1a ) .
18 Imported cutlery is also bought in American dollars and , while the exchange rate of sterling to the dollar was very favourable for Britain last year , it has dropped considerably in the past six months , making imported cutlery more expensive to buy .
19 The EEA contains the deposits of the UK 's gold and convertible foreign currency reserves that are used to intervene in the exchange markets to stabilise the exchange rate of sterling , or to raise it or lower it relative to other currencies .
20 This means that , if e ij is the exchange rate between currency 1 and currency j ( units of j per unit of i ) , the following relationship should hold between any three currencies : .
21 These reserves , which are held in the Exchange Equalisation Fund , may be used to intervene in the foreign exchange market to influence the exchange rate between sterling and other currencies .
22 If persistently large current account imbalances arose , the antici-pation of devaluation or revaluation would give rise to speculative short-term capital flows in the same direction , putting added pressure on the exchange rate in question .
23 Simple margin is defined as the average return on the FRN throughout its life compared with the reference rate of interest .
24 The sterling rate of return is 54.7 per cent , nearly three times the dollar rate of return .
25 Organiser Catherine Jackson , of the Cleveland Family Conciliation Service , said : The divorce rate at present , roughly one in three marriages shows no sign of dropping .
26 The consumption rate of ectotherm predators is equal to its own body weight every sixty days , and this contrasts with the mammalian rate of its own body-weight every 6.6 days for wild dogs , 8.0 for lions , and 10 days for cheetahs .
27 The objective stated in the application was to reduce the accident rate per head of population for Pilton half way towards the average rate for Edinburgh .
28 Considering that so many gliders are flown across country on every possible soaring day , the accident rate for gliding is extremely low .
29 The catalogue of disasters affecting travel and sports industries has been mirrored by a steady rise in the accident rate in work places .
30 The effects of interest rates and the tax rate on investment incentives have been extensively studied .
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