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

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1 Given basic ability , equality of opportunity to borrow at the market rate of interest to invest in your human capital so as to secure a future return makes observed income inequality a matter of individual choice .
2 Under option six , called ‘ other goodies ’ , you can analyse the data to report on the success rate at a particular fishing spot , or investigate any one angler 's record , plot water temperature versus the date , or find the full and new moon dates for a given year and month .
3 These tendencies have entailed certain structural problems — the market suffers from excess capacity ( see section 5.3 ) , with many eurobond operations unable to make profits on turnover averaged over the interest rate cycle .
4 The USA picture shows a slightly distorted beehive shape due to recession followed by a post-war boom reflected in the birth rate .
5 Initially revenue rises with the tax rate , but beyond the tax rate t* higher taxes have major disincentive effects on work effort and revenue starts to fall .
6 According to the IMF , the upward pressure on the deutschmark in the first half of 1990 did not adversely affect other currencies participating in the exchange rate mechanism of the European Monetary System ( EMS ) , as increases in West German interest rates were largely matched throughout the European Communities .
7 She points out that a 2.5 percentage point saving on the mortgage rate might easily be cancelled out by expensive compulsory insurance and a steep arrangement fee alone .
8 The margins applied to the spot rate would be said to be at a premium , premium because it makes the US$ more expensive in terms of sterling to enable the cost to be passed on .
9 To that we added a night keeper and relief , brackets B two six four close brackets , and an allowance for physical help during the day charged at the crossroads rate which brought the total up to thirty three thousand five hundred and twenty eight pounds and twenty pence .
10 Until the past two years Drexel was right that the total return from investing in a diversified portfolio of junk bonds overcompensated for the default rate .
11 The goggles work by having their liquid crystal diode lenses synchronised to the refresh rate of the monitor .
12 The bowler starts things off by pressing the Bowl button ; the ‘ ball ’ will then move down the pitch at a rate selected by the Bowling rate switch .
13 Using the stock concept , at a point in time an investment project is profitable if the present value of net operating benefits the stream of future operating profits discounted at the interest rate at which firms must borrow funds — exceeds the initial purchase price of the new capital good .
14 However , in August 1734 , a month after their first son was baptised , Philip Miller appears in the Parish Rate Books as occupier of a house in Swan Walk , for which he paid a half yearly rate of 14/- , reduced to 10/6d. two years later .
15 If interest rates rise above the contract rate , Hambros meets the difference .
16 If rates fall below the exit rate , the customer pays the market rate plus the difference between the contract and exit rates .
17 The Liverpool Six — Professors Sir Alan Walters , Patrick Minford , Tim Congdon , Bill Martin , Gordon Pepper and Peter Warburton — aim to discourage Britain returning to the exchange rate mechanism .
18 Suppose that interest rates in Italy are higher by 2 per cent than in the UK and at the same time the necessary discount applied to the spot rate were only 1 per cent .
19 Simple margin is defined as the average return on the FRN throughout its life compared with the reference rate of interest .
20 What effects will the following have on the equilibrium rate of interest ?
21 He reminded Mr Major that he was Chancellor when Britain went into the Exchange Rate Mechanism .
22 Is it worth paying a fee to have a cap or floor put on the interest rate ?
23 Set against Labour 's attraction to the recent elevation of socialism in the EEC is their dislike of the threat to employment posed by the Exchange Rate Mechanism .
24 Here the variance in velocity fluctuations on a scale R is related to the power spectrum by where is the ratio of the rate of growth of fluctuations compared with the expansion rate .
25 At first glance the association between fishing and computing may be hard to see , but the sport is as much a science as an art , even if the number of factors involved in the success rate is close to infinite .
26 The flow cost is the opportunity cost of the money or social resources tied up in the plant and is measured by the initial capital cost multiplied by the discount rate r .
27 The constant frequency clock produces Step commands at the start/stop rate of the motor/load combination and these commands are fed to both the excitation Sequence circuit and to the downcounter , which records the instantaneous motor position relative to the target .
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