Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [art] rate of " in BNC.

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1 That a switch from tax to debt finance may affect the rate of capital formation has been argued by Modigliani ( 1961 ) in the context of a simple life-cycle model .
2 If dyspepsia is to be used to identify a particularly high risk group ( such as coal miners ) , then we must know the rate of dyspepsia in the group we are studying and the extent to which it differs from that in the general population .
3 For really reliable stability a design should have a rate of closure in the Bode plot of less than 6 dB per octave and all break points of the linear approximation should be at least a decade in frequency away from the intersection corresponding to .
4 Taking equation ( 4.29 ) to represent the economist 's model , it is easy to see that he would recommend to a government that if it wished to achieve a higher level of real output it should raise the rate of growth of the quantity of money .
5 The agreement includes a vital clause stating that the Commission must examine the rates of duty laid down every two years , and for the first time no later than 31st December 1994 .
6 This must reflect the rate of dissociation of the drug from the unlabelled DNA .
7 Consequently , if a volcanic island is to be formed the rate of growth of a volcano must exceed the rate of ocean floor subsidence .
8 Faster scrapping of old plant as a result of insufficient labour should increase the rate of growth of labour productivity .
9 But th the only trouble , the only trouble with with that is , it might knock the rate of VAT and u up an awful lot and the people who only buy very little will be able to even less .
10 The advantage of this method is that it is a multivariate technique which allows an analysis of the relationship between unemployment and imprisonment to be examined after controlling for other factors such as crime levels , numbers of convictions , and age structure of the population , which might affect the rate of incarceration .
11 Nobody in industry has actually got an absolute guarantee , I mean even the British Telecom schemes said they 'll pay , they 'll pay the rate of inflation if they feel they can afford .
12 Experiments in pure horse pregnancies would also be rewarding , because one could relate the rate of abortion to the degree of similarity in parental HLA antigens ; the group of antigens most critically associated with rejection .
13 We believe that a Conservative Government , putting the provision of homes above the sanctity of unpractical doctrines , could stimulate a rate of building which would rise rapidly year by year .
14 According to the Institute 's report , the control measures could contain the rate of climate change to a level which will not do severe harm .
15 The excellent French musket of 1777 , for example , could maintain a rate of fire of three rounds per minute with an effective range of 200 metres and could fire 8,000 shots without needing modification or repairs .
16 Our first thought might be that an individual bank which was short of base money could raise the rate of interest it offered to depositors .
17 Lenders could get a rate of interest very close to that available on corresponding time deposits knowing , none the less , that they could recover use of the funds by selling the CDs .
18 Since all five surveys differ with respect to their methods of investigation and the type of estimate made , the figures used to indicate the rate of known opioid use in Wirral have been adjusted to increase the validity of each comparison ( see Table 2.3 ) .
19 If the prevailing rate of interest were greater than an individual 's conception of the normal rate , that individual would expect the rate of interest to fall in the near future .
20 It is claimed that , by making labour costs flexible , such a system would reduce the rate of unemployment and stimulate productivity .
21 Although the government would admit that in the short term a rise in aggregate demand stimulated by government fiscal policy would raise employment and output ( quantity ) , in the longer term such fiscal relaxation would raise the rate of inflation ( price ) and not quantity ; money GDP ( price × quantity ) would be rising but not output .
22 Full private funding of the link would require a rate of return of between 12%percnt ; and 15% and British Rail has argued that the project can not even provide the 8% return demanded of public sector investment .
23 To be regarded as equivalent to this , a pure discount bond ( making a lump sum payment at the end of year 2 with no year 1 payment ) would require a rate of return of 10.26 per cent ( the spot yield ) , i.e. for the same investment of 100 , the maturity value would have to be 121.57 ( i.e. 100 x ( 1.1026 ) 2 ) .
24 Although spacing trees widely is not essential , it would allow for easier access and management , and would increase the rate of tree growth and resulting timber quality .
25 Firstly , improved police efficiency will affect the rate of recorded crime .
26 Decisions on pricing will affect the rate of return on investment and the incentive to carry out new investment , but past investment , by affecting the current capital stock , will affect current marginal costs to which prices will be related .
27 In his first annual review as Chief Executive of LASMO , the international oil and gas exploration and production company , Mr Joe Darby describes his immediate objective as being ‘ to build a business which is profitable even at low oil prices and which will show a rate of growth commensurate with the forecast rise in our production and cash flow ’ .
28 In this environment , which is likely to continue for the foreseeable future , our objective is to build a business which is profitable even at low oil prices and which will show a rate of growth commensurate with the forecast rise in our production and cash flow .
29 To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will give the rates of VAT since the beginning of 1979 ; and the dates of each change .
30 The fall in the rate of interest will raise the rate of investment spending and so cause the rate of national income to rise again .
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