Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] [art] [adj] rate " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is noticeable that in all 3 cases presented in Table 8.2 , the share price declines as the required rate of return increases . |
| 2 | Alternatively , the industry could be in the hands of a private firm which would have its prices regulated by the state in such a way as to earn what approximates to a normal rate of return on capital employed . |
| 3 | In every case the estimate of β was markedly higher for the period closer to delivery , i.e. volatility declines at a faster rate in the fifty days just before delivery . |
| 4 | After his visit to the hospital he spoke to shoppers in Stockton High Street about the community charge and Labours plans for a fair rate . |
| 5 | If that is what the hon. Gentleman describes as an increasing rate of passenger train collisions , it shows that he does not deserve the attention or respect of the House . |
| 6 | It results in a low rate of excise duty on wines ( the fastest growing component of consumer expenditure on alcoholic drinks ) and a high rate of duty on spirits ( whose share of expenditure on alcoholic drinks is falling ) . |
| 7 | This ratio in turn depends on the relative rate of growth of capital employed and of output produced . |
| 8 | With a star of greater mass , everything happens at an accelerated rate , and the star 's active life is much shorter than with our sedate Sun . |
| 9 | For example , although a curie of any radioactive element disintegrates at the same rate as I gram of natural radium ( as found in sea-water ) there is no connection between this and the relative toxicity of the element as compared to radium . |
| 10 | A. This argues that , since information arrives at an uneven rate , the observed distribution of futures price changes ( or returns ) will be a mixture of a number of normal distributions , and this observed distribution will be leptokurtic . |
| 11 | Other speakers at the conference pointed out that over-abstraction from rivers leads to a falling rate of flow which critically affects the rivers ' ecology , and they warned the situation may deteriorate as water continues to increase in the 1990s . |
| 12 | THE BACTERIUM E. coli ( above ) grows at a phenomenal rate . |
| 13 | The shell has a mathematically simple form , and , roughly speaking , its shape can be understood as the result of a that organ , the mantle , which itself grows at a variable rate but secretes minerals at a rate proportional to the length of its periphery . |
| 14 | No firm grows at a constant rate throughout its life , so while the earnings model in the last subsection gives simple and convenient formulae for the share price , it is not very realistic . |
| 15 | The creature grows at an alarming rate , then escapes and cuts a swathe of destruction as it moves through the southern Italian countryside . |
| 16 | The difficulty with this anemone is that once established it reproduces at a tremendous rate and literally swamps the aquarium with large numbers of offspring . |
| 17 | The task is to follow lead car , which also appears on the screen , and travels at a varying rate . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | However , it has been judicially observed that the objection to a rent representing a percentage of the tenant 's turnover is that , if the price of a commodity rises at a faster rate than the cost of living , pressure is likely to develop on dealers in that commodity to reduce their margin of profit or rate of commission ( Naylor v Uttoxeter UDC ( 1974 ) 231 EG 619 per Brightman J ) . |
| 20 | As output and sales rise , so does total cost and , in this example , total cost rises at a constant rate from £220,000 when 40,000 units are produced to £700,000 when 200,000 units are produced . |
| 21 | Because incense burns at an even rate and without flame , it is well suited for measuring the division of the religious day and for other purposes . |
| 22 | Long periods of lone quiet sleep may be one factor that contributes to a higher rate of sudden deaths in white than in Asian infants . |
| 23 | That points to an annual rate of 310% . |
| 24 | That is not the same as what it actually costs them to run their practice , but what the taxing office or county court perceives as the overall rate for solicitors in the area . |
| 25 | If your employee qualifies for the higher rate , it should be paid for the first six weeks that higher rate SMP is due . |
| 26 | No public librarian , for instance , can regard each item on the fiction shelves as an equal unit , to be discarded if its rate of use falls below the average rate for the entire stock . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The consumption rate of ectotherm predators is equal to its own body weight every sixty days , and this contrasts with the mammalian rate of its own body-weight every 6.6 days for wild dogs , 8.0 for lions , and 10 days for cheetahs . |
| 29 | Shareholders whose income falls within the lower rate band of 20 per cent will not be entitled to any tax credit payment as the tax credit will no longer exceed the liability . |
| 30 | 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 . |