Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] at [art] [adj] rate " in BNC.
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| 1 | By subjecting the specimen to a tensile force applied at a uniform rate and measuring the resulting deformation , a curve of the type shown in figure 13.6 can be constructed . |
| 2 | One of the major achievements of the journeymen in the nineteenth century had been to succeed in having both kinds of work paid at the same rate . |
| 3 | If all the health authorities performed at the same rate as the top 25 per cent. , an additional 186,000 patients could be treated at no extra cost . |
| 4 | Social security employee contributions , a payroll tax levied at a flat rate of 7.65 per cent on the first $51,300 of an individual 's earned income , were paid into trust funds and used to finance retirement benefits and Medicare — health-care programmes for the elderly . |
| 5 | What is more , when inflation is taken into account , the present middle-income earners have relatively less disposable income under the present higher tax rate of 60% than they did under the old regime of tax charged at the highest rate of 83% such is the falling-behind effect of tax allowances granted in recent years . |
| 6 | Media-only appointments increased at a faster rate than those involving creative and full service during the year . |
| 7 | Normally if tax is paid under Pay As You Earn , the tax deducted at the basic rate will be correct . |
| 8 | They therefore receive an imputed tax credit evaluated at the basic rate of personal tax ( currently 25 per cent ) . |
| 9 | Most estates were assessed in numbers of hides ( roughly 70,000 – 80,000 in all ) , units used in the allocation of public burdens which might be military , as in 1008 , when every 300 hides provided a ship and every eight a helmet and byrnie ( mail-coat ) for the navy , or financial , with each hide taxed at a particular rate . |
| 10 | During selection with malathion and IBP , resistance gene frequency of a stock of Culex quinquefasciatus decreased at the same rate as untreated mosquitoes , whereas with malathion alone the resistance gene frequency increased fourfold in three generations . |
| 11 | After the restriction of war time , building resumed at an accelerated rate . |
| 12 | This operates in the same way as the MIRAS scheme for mortgages , with relief given at the basic rate by deduction at source . |
| 13 | In such circumstances a subsidy granted at the per-unit rate of would lead the authority to the optimal point . |
| 14 | In addition it was found that as the number of choices which could be made , when choosing the cards , increased by a factor of 2 ( another bit of information was required ) , the time required for the brain to make this choice increased at a constant rate . |
| 15 | The proportion of allowances paid at the highest rate ( in ‘ haute montagne ’ ) in 1981 was only 5% ; 78% in the ‘ montagne ’ zone and 16% in the ‘ piedmont ’ zone . |
| 16 | The trustees ' expenses and proper management fees , therefore , are paid out of the income of the trust taxed at the basic rate , and no relief can be claimed by the trustees or beneficiaries in respect thereof . |
| 17 | Services offered at a discounted rate include : |
| 18 | Their cash holdings declined at an annual rate of 7% in the last three months of 1992 . |
| 19 | These confer the right — but not the obligation — to buy or sell the foreign currency required at a pre-determined rate . |
| 20 | Official figures out yesterday indicated that British consumers saved at the lowest rate for 31 years while living standards actually declined 0.6 per cent between the first and second quarters of the year . |
| 21 | This expansion is said to be " inflationary , " meaning that the universe at one time expanded at an increasing rate rather than the decreasing rate that it does today . |
| 22 | Subjects seemed to provide No responses slower than giving Yes responses initially , but No response reaction time increased at a greater rate tending to converge with reaction time for Yes responses in larger memory sets of about four digits onwards . |
| 23 | If ss160 and 162 apply , their effect is to treat the " beneficial element " of the Newco shares as if it were an interest-free loan to the managers , and tax them under Schedule E on the " cash equivalent " of the beneficial loan , ie tax on notional interest charged at the official rate while the " loan " remains outstanding . |
| 24 | 5.4 ( in brackets ) for the years 1984 to 1987 , the North 's factory jobs declined at a lesser rate than in the South . |