Example sentences of "[verb] [noun sg] at an [adj] rate " in BNC.
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| 1 | The limpet , like Neopilina , produces shell at an equal rate right round the circumference of the mantle and so builds a simple pyramid . |
| 2 | When executive search consultants leave or retire , they are forced to sell back the equity to other partners who , on election to the partnership , are encouraged to purchase stock at an agreed rate . |
| 3 | Fuel is needed if you want to stay in the air because the Epical engines consume fuel at an alarming rate . |
| 4 | At the end of February Greenspan remained optimistic and committed to maintaining interest rates when revised figures for real growth in GNP in the final quarter of 1989 showed growth at an annual rate of 0.9 per cent rather than the estimated 0.5 per cent . |
| 5 | Having already paid for my return ticket I was cross at having to buy another one , and even more upset at having to pay extra for the one-way ticket and convert sterling at an unfavourable rate . |
| 6 | Offshore non-trading companies are exempt from corporation tax , but may waive their exemption and pay tax at an agreed rate . |
| 7 | The answer is that a reaction will take place at an appreciable rate only if there is a specific enzyme that speeds it up . |
| 8 | One of the first indications that this belief would have to be abandoned came when calculations by the British scientists Lord Rayleigh and Sir James Jeans suggested that a hot object , or body , such as a star , must radiate energy at an infinite rate . |
| 9 | At the lime that it was published , the report received a great deal of attention since it coincided with the brief economic boom of 1971 — 2 and workers were leaving agriculture at an alarming rate . |
| 10 | Whereas in a normal year the king 's usual revenue barely met his obligations , in years of hostility expenditure outran income at an alarming rate . |