Example sentences of "[vb pp] at a [adj] rate " in BNC.
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| 1 | In order to avoid this obviously ridiculous result , the German scientist Max Planck suggested in 1900 that light , X rays , and other waves could not be emitted at an arbitrary rate , but only in certain packets that he called quanta . |
| 2 | By subjecting the specimen to a tensile force applied at a uniform rate and measuring the resulting deformation , a curve of the type shown in figure 13.6 can be constructed . |
| 3 | Would this lead to the principle of differentiation being accepted but used for different purposes , so that the goals of interest groups , rather than social welfare , dictate which commodities are taxed at a lower rate ? |
| 4 | In addition , a sharply progressive personal tax system will make dividends a relatively unattractive source of income for the marginal tax payer compared to capital gains which may be taxed at a flat rate . |
| 5 | Most estates were assessed in numbers of hides ( roughly 70,000 – 80,000 in all ) , units used in the allocation of public burdens which might be military , as in 1008 , when every 300 hides provided a ship and every eight a helmet and byrnie ( mail-coat ) for the navy , or financial , with each hide taxed at a particular rate . |
| 6 | Amounts over this are taxed at a single rate of 40 per cent . |
| 7 | Where the publications are a supply for acquisition , the recipient subscriber will account for VAT in its member state although such publications are zero-rated in the UK , in other member states they are taxed at a reduced rate , and in Denmark they are taxed at 25% ! |
| 8 | Business therefore expanded at a great rate and labour was not as well organised or well informed as it is today . |
| 9 | This expansion is said to be " inflationary , " meaning that the universe at one time expanded at an increasing rate rather than the decreasing rate that it does today . |
| 10 | Not surprisingly , therefore , import penetration increased from the mid 1960s onwards and then moved at an alarming rate in the early 1970s . |
| 11 | Consumer prices had accelerated at an annualized rate of 5.5 per cent in January 1990 , and the visible trade surplus in 1989 was the lowest recorded for 10 years . |
| 12 | If the money had been spent on social and industrial problems then the American economy might well have grown at a higher rate than it has , and technological innovation might have been more rapid in areas which directly contribute to trade . |
| 13 | Since World War II karate has , like all the martial arts , grown at a tremendous rate . |
| 14 | Roberts , using statistics for 1960 , 1970 and projected for 1980 , shows how in six of the largest Latin American countries , Argentina , Brazil , Chile , Mexico , Peru and Venezuela , the urban population has grown at a faster rate than has the total population ( Roberts 1978 ) . |
| 15 | International factoring has grown at a faster rate than domestic factoring over the past five years but still remains only a small fraction of domestic business . |
| 16 | In the previous four years GNP had grown at an average rate of about 3 per cent per annum which was lower than the preceding years and unemployment had reached a peak of 8.3 per cent in 1970 . |
| 17 | If the first two years of the Thatcher Government are excluded — when the Government managed to achieve a negative rate of growth — the British economy has grown at an average rate of 3 per cent . |
| 18 | Lynda Warren , author of the report , said : " This industry has grown at an alarming rate , in a complete policy vacuum . |
| 19 | Tax benefits to private pension arrangements have risen at a similar rate , although the growth has been from a smaller base . |
| 20 | Earnings have consistently risen at a higher rate than prices , widening the gulf between the incomes of working people with average wages , and those dependent on state benefits . |
| 21 | M4 , the best measure we have , has risen at an annual rate of around 18 per cent , and even this year it has continued to rise at that rate . |
| 22 | The sample is placed in a heating block and warmed at a uniform rate . |
| 23 | It is a universal charge , levied at a flat rate for all individuals over the age of 18 living in the local authority area . |
| 24 | Social security employee contributions , a payroll tax levied at a flat rate of 7.65 per cent on the first $51,300 of an individual 's earned income , were paid into trust funds and used to finance retirement benefits and Medicare — health-care programmes for the elderly . |
| 25 | Although VAT was levied at a lower rate than GST — 10 per cent compared with 13 per cent — it was applied to a wider range of goods . |
| 26 | One group on low income who will lose out consists of those people living in areas where the poll tax is levied at a higher rate than the Government calculates , and who in consequence will have to meet a 20 per cent poll tax bill that is larger than that calculated by the 20 per cent met by the Government . |
| 27 | ( Income tax is levied at a basic rate of 25 per cent and a higher rate of 40 per cent — correct as of 1990 budget . ) |
| 28 | It is possible for indirect taxes to be levied at an even rate across all goods and services ; a sales tax with a single rate of , say , 5 per cent , or value added tax , are examples . |
| 29 | After this ‘ completion period ’ ( of four years from the granting of outline planning permission or three years in the case of full planning permission ) , the charge was to be imposed at an annual rate of 30 per cent of the capital value of the land . |
| 30 | Another member , after referring to the particular reference in the Financial Secretary 's statement to airline and railway employees , asked whether the same distinction applied to services provided by hotel companies to their employees — that is , to rooms which are freely available for the general public in hotels being offered at a concessionary rate to employees of the hotel group . |