Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] the [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 This ratio in turn depends on the relative rate of growth of capital employed and of output produced .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 If your employee qualifies for the higher rate , it should be paid for the first six weeks that higher rate SMP is due .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 This means that , in the above example , for every 100 nominal bond , interest accrues at the daily rate of 0.021614583 .
13 If the actual unemployment rate coincides with the natural rate , we must infer following Friedman , that the overall supply of labour equals the overall demand for labour at the market clearing real wage rate .
14 Using funds previously devoted to subsidies , 27,000 million crowns ( US$1.00=15.8571 crowns at the official rate ) per year would instead be allocated as a monthly allowance of 140 crowns per person , to help offset price rises .
15 And as it dissolves , it releases at the same rate any compounds mixed in with it .
16 It came as no surprise to mystics that DNA is found to function like a right handed helix in which each tread is of the same size and turns at the same rate of 36° per tread .
17 If the rate remains at the current rate of 25% ( which is currently equal to the basic rate of Income Tax ) the benefit will be as outlined in the Introduction .
18 Almost all studies show that acid secretion remains at the same rate .
19 One fifth of England will have been lost to urban sprawl by 2050 if development continues at the present rate , according to the Council for the Protection of Rural England .
20 The world tiger population is estimated at between 6,000-9,000 ; if poaching continues at the present rate the tiger will be extinct by early next century , according to expert predictions .
21 If , for instance , he drops a ball it accelerates at the same rate as the capsule and will remain at rest relative to the capsule , whatever their shared acceleration .
22 Their comprehensive service goes from booking planes , ferries and trains at the best rates through to hotel bookings and visa emergency services .
23 Chlorophyll depends naturally on light , CO 2 , humidity and warmth , although primary photoreaction proceeds at the same rate regardless of temperature .
24 The body of a young child works at the maximum rate , enabling the child to process far more information in a given time than an adult could .
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