Example sentences of "[noun sg] at [art] [adj] rate " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Capitalists realized the rising share of profits by increasing investment at a faster rate than production ( figure 8.10 ) . |
| 3 | Infusion of the liquid bolus at a slow rate ensured that the isotope did not disperse beyond the first ileal segment ; the present results confirmed the effect of a cholinergic agonist and antagonist on transit in the ICJ and colon , suggesting that the model is valid . |
| 4 | and erm , it is therefore in those circumstances foolhardy in my opinion to carry on with the British Assessment Programme at the present rate when the effects on our roads are likely to be so drastic |
| 5 | A young red deer puts on weight at a considerable rate during its first summer , but its growth is reduced to less than half of this rate during the winter . |
| 6 | Few men could fail to shed weight at a satisfactory rate on a daily allowance of 1,500 calories . |
| 7 | You know , the one who feeds to routine , sleeps through the night at a fortnight old , gains weight at the average rate and does n't get a spotty face the day before he 's due to have his photo taken . |
| 8 | If they start to fall beneath their percentile band then they are not growing or gaining weight at the expected rate and it is important to try to determine why this is happening . |
| 9 | Club together with others at your yard and buy wormers in bulk at a cheaper rate . |
| 10 | Sally demanded , but a scarlet flush was creeping up her neck at an alarming rate and flooding her cheeks . |
| 11 | This week they will be advertising for one or two extra staff and anticipate moving to bigger premises by the end of the summer , if business continues to boom at the same rate , possibly in the Manningtree area . |
| 12 | These convertible issues are convertible into the underlying equity at a fixed rate over a period of years and usually on certain dates in each year . |
| 13 | Therefore , if you are in a building-up period as far as weight training is concerned , you should keep the FDR work at a low rate . |
| 14 | Even in the early days , when wage differentials between the two cities were not great , the Edinburgh compositors were considered by their Glasgow colleagues to be lacking in spirit : " The printers [ i.e. compositors ] of Edinburgh had the unenviable reputation of being willing to accept work at a reduced rate in almost any town in the United Kingdom before 1840 . " |
| 15 | Having to pay for each 1/2 kilometre of congestion at a known rate will in my opinion be a greater deterrent to fighting congestion than any other form of pricing . |
| 16 | Between July and September hot money flowed out of the dollar at an annual rate of $35 billion . |
| 17 | If they remain chronically incapacitated for work they can now claim invalidity benefit at a higher rate . |
| 18 | If incapacity for work continues thereafter , a person can obtain invalidity benefit at the higher rate of £43.60 plus £26.20 for an adult dependant and £8.95 for each child . |
| 19 | If you become unemployed , you draw unemployment benefit at the same rate as retirement pension , but there is no increment for those weeks . |
| 20 | There is festering resentment in dark green quarters over what is seen as Julia 's reluctance to state baldly that there is no such thing as a green product , or that continued consumption at the present rate can only lead to us all dying in some particularly horrible way . |
| 21 | If the government then levies a tax on the use of capital in the X sector at the same rate , this means that the choice of factor intensity in that sector is the same as if the factor prices were w and r . |
| 22 | It may raise its rate , thereby ‘ sanctioning ’ the market 's anticipation or it may resist the rise by continuing assistance at the original rate . |
| 23 | And the Plaintiff claims the said sum of [ £250.00 ] together with interest pursuant to s 69 of the County Courts Act 1984 at the rate of 15 per cent per annum from the [ First day of October 1991 ] [ the date upon which payment became due ] to the date hereof [ £3.70 ] and continuing hereafter at the daily rate of [ £0.1027 ] until the date of judgment or sooner payment . |
| 24 | However , the change is taking place at a differential rate which seems to be related to the relative prestige of the various media . |
| 25 | A 20Mb/second SCSI-2 interface connects the host system and the array , allowing backup to take place at a sustained rate of 3.5Gb per hour . |
| 26 | If the reconnection were to take place at a steady rate , the ion energy would show a continuous latitudinal dispersion . |
| 27 | The answer is that a reaction will take place at an appreciable rate only if there is a specific enzyme that speeds it up . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 1.3 ‘ Net receipts ’ means payments due and actually paid and received by the Publisher arising from the sale or exploitation of the Video and converted into sterling at the current rate of exchange existing at the date of receipt in the United Kingdom |
| 30 | 1.3 ‘ Net receipts ’ means payments due and actually paid and received by the Publisher arising from the sale or exploitation of the Video and converted into sterling at the current rate of exchange existing at the date of receipt in the United Kingdom |