Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [prep] the [adj] rate " in BNC.
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| 1 | erm there was a time , for instance , when we had members of parliament who were gentlemen of means , perhaps , and who did not need to draw salaries , erm and it was erm perhaps a gentleman amateur job , but it 's all changed totally now and now we recognise that erm to be a national politician is a career and erm it is a career which is perhaps rewarded at the going rate . |
| 2 | Though a number of economists have made further assumptions about the behaviour of the economy — principally , that firms will substitute labour for capital if there is unemployment ( because in those circumstances real wages will fall ) — which remove some of the apparent instabilities , others have concluded that the instability still occurs because the actual rate of investment may still not necessarily coincide with the warranted rate of growth for full employment . |
| 3 | If Dreadnought went on sinking at the present rate , in ten minutes the hole would n't be above the waterline , but below . |
| 4 | Norway is a particularly interesting example where they saw a rocketing rate of smoking amongst adolescents they introduced a smoking ban , er an an advertising ban , and in fact , it 's reversed and they , they 're youngsters are not smoking at the same rate as as they were . |
| 5 | By different processes erm but nevertheless receding at the same rate . |
| 6 | Many professionals within the Lloyd 's market welcome the current crop of departures as there is an excess of financial capacity within the market at a time when business is not growing at the same rate as the available capacity . |
| 7 | Herringman probably retired to Carshalton in the mid-1690s , when his name no longer appears in the Poor Rate ledgers for the parish of St Martin-in-the-Fields . |
| 8 | Operating system revenues were up $1.8m to $61.7m , though revenue growth has not increased at the same rate as unit volumes shipped because of volume discount schedules . |
| 9 | A spokesman for the Housing Executive said : ‘ While building costs have increased the tender price has not increased at the same rate . |
| 10 | Other monies will not be separately identified from the general rate support grant from the Department of the Environment , a decision which will make it very difficult to identify exactly what is being spent on services by individual authorities . |
| 11 | After retirement they were not milked by the heavy rates previously levied by the high spending Cleveland County Council . |
| 12 | And even an enthusiast like her admits that the growth in converts to her cause can not continue at the present rate . |
| 13 | As the hull value of 707s , 727s , DC-8s and their ilk falls , their support costs — engines , systems , airport facilities etc , is not decreasing at the same rate . |
| 14 | The number of births soon began to fall dramatically — by the early 1980s it was only two-thirds of the figure reached twenty years earlier ; car ownership did not increase at the expected rate — due in part to the sharp increase in Petrol prices in the early 1970s ; the demand for higher standards conflicted from the mid-1970s with central government 's belief that local government expenditure needed to be curtailed in line with a monetarist approach to economic policy . |
| 15 | A girl who is very tall for her age may fear that she will go on growing at the same rate indefinitely , while a boy who is shorter than his mates of the same age may be afraid that he will be permanently undersized . |
| 16 | One result of this method of expectation formation is that the expected rate of inflation always lags behind the actual rate ; though if the actual rate should remain constant , the expected rate would eventually come to equal it . |
| 17 | They were usually billed as the star attraction so John obviously made a good profit out of them but they were still paid at the same rate as all his juveniles , five shillings a week . |
| 18 | The high growth of the real money stock after 1979 compared with the growth of real GDP is partly reflected in the high rate of inflation during the 1980s — an annual average of 9.3 per cent , compared with 2 per cent growth of real GDP . |
| 19 | The spot rate is also known as the basic rate or telegraphic transfer rate . |
| 20 | It has been established that glutamine is an important food for many rapidly dividing cells , and the increased rate of glutamine utilisation in UC probably relates to the increased rate of proliferation seen in this condition . |
| 21 | If the money supply is not also falling at the same rate , interest rates will fall and so encourage new investment . |
| 22 | Incomplete recording may partly account for the low rates of sickness absence among those in the highest grades , but it is unlikely to explain the large differences between other grades . |
| 23 | Family credit will also rise by the same rate . |
| 24 | It is this age group which is now growing at the fastest rate and the support of the sometimes frail ‘ old ’ is an important policy issue . |
| 25 | Tax-rates were cut , reliefs reduced or abolished and the £30,000 ceiling for mortgage relief has been frozen while relief is now restricted to the basic rate . |
| 26 | Also , as you probably know , mortgage interest relief is no longer allowed for higher rate tax but is now restricted to the basic rate of 25 per cent — so the savings are smaller than before for those in a high income bracket . |
| 27 | Tax relief on mortgage interest payments is now restricted to the basic rate of income tax ; all higher rate relief was withdrawn in the 1991 Budget . |
| 28 | One of the things about when you are old and move to a residential home I think one of the important things is that you want to go and live close to your loved ones , if you have any , and it does just worry me that if you happen to be a person who is resident in and your loved ones live in , under these terms if you went to a residential home in you would n't qualify for the higher rate and that seems to me to be wrong . |
| 29 | Tylers have never recognized any union and are well known for the low rates and poor conditions that they impose on their workers . |
| 30 | Chancellor Norman Lamont is pressing the Bank of England to examine allegations that the big lenders are not fully passing on the cheaper rates . |