Example sentences of "have [verb] [art] [adj] rate " in BNC.

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1 Sun Microsystems Inc has built a Basic Rate ISDN interface into its new high-end Sparc Station 10 workstation .
2 But basically a gilt has got a fixed rate of , of value at the end and the beginning , so it 's worth a hundred pounds day one , a hundred pounds day you know whatever , h how many days it 's in force , if it 's a five year gilt , it 's worth a hundred , a hundred pounds then .
3 Laurentian Financial Group has reduced the variable rate on its 100 per cent mortgage to 7.99 per cent on the first 75 per cent of the loan and 13.99 per cent on the final 25 per cent .
4 A study has linked the high rate of birth defects in a Hungarian village to pesticide use at a local fish farm .
5 The Serious Fraud Office has been in operation for three years and has achieved a striking rate of success in serious and complex frauds .
6 By the third year the phasing has overtaken the full rate so the full rate is paid .
7 Few , including me , would have thought the third rate guitar outfit of old capable of such divine inspiration but ‘ Screamadelica ’ sounds suspiciously like the baggy generation 's answer to ‘ Sgt. Pepper ’ .
8 The resulting bill , which was approved by 211 votes to 189 in the House and by 50 votes to 44 in the Senate , would have increased the top rate of income tax from 31 to 36 per cent and would have placed a 10 per cent surtax on millionaires to finance tax relief — particularly in the form of a permanent tax credit of $300 per child — for lower- and middle-income tax payers .
9 It is at least arguable : the employers did after all give in when faced with a strike , and effectively surrendered on this very question for the future , since they would have to pay the male rate to all the new ( male ) monotypists .
10 If you have a break in employment for two complete consecutive tax years , for whatever reason , you must pay full-rate contributions when you return to work : so , if you leave employment in March 1988 , you can return to work at any time up to 5th April 1990 and still pay the reduced rate ; but if you wait longer than that , you will have to pay the full rate .
11 If you are going to be away from work for a period in the future , you will have to pay the full rate when you return to paid employment , so it might be as well to start now , and build up the maximum benefit .
12 Thus , in early 1988 the banks would have to charge an average rate of interest on their dinar loans of over 200 per cent to cover themselves .
13 It follows that if a government should wish to keep unemployment below the NUP , it must keep on increasing the rate of growth of the money supply and will have to tolerate an ever-increasing rate of inflation .
14 Many women retiring today may have paid a reduced rate contribution under a scheme which was abolished in 1978 .
15 Editor , — In the editorial on treating persistent glue ear in children Ruut A de Melker might also have mentioned the high rate of repeat operations to insert grommets for glue ear .
16 Does my right hon. Friend agree that the Conservative party is proud to have reduced the basic rate of tax from 33p in the pound to 25p and the upper rate from 98p to 40p ?
17 The Victoria Press in fact paid its women workers the " London scale " , that is union rates , as even the Circular admitted , and the Caledonian Press seems to have paid the male rate too .
18 At Tiverton in 1809 they had claimed they had received the same rate for 300 years !
19 He said that the control of inflation , which had reached an annualized rate of 13,000 per cent in 1990 , was the most pressing economic problem .
20 Inflation had reached an annual rate of 11 per cent in December 1990 .
21 It would have suited the economic interests of monopoly capital if the plan had proposed a high rate of growth .
22 This is a private arrangement between you and the parents , though you may find that childminders in your area have agreed a uniform rate .
23 The dockers have got a national rate of pay now , and a forty-four-hour week — what more do you want ? ’
24 The only year where they coincide is nineteen twenty , the great erm influenza epidemic actually killed more people than the first world war , and er as you 'll see , despite increasing trends in health care which have reduced the overall rate , the difference in death rate between males and females has remained in the same or , if anything , widened slightly in recent years .
25 I have found the hatching rate to be greatly improved with the addition of 2–3 drops of Fincare ) .
26 We have abolished the investment income surcharge , and have cut the standard rate of income tax to 25p in the pound .
27 We have cut the basic rate of Income Tax from 33p to 25p , and the top rate from 83p to 40p .
28 That is why we have cut interest rates seven times in a year and halved inflation in a year , have the lowest number of strikes for half a century and have cut the basic rate of tax .
29 Ladies , you must be keenly interested in the rental of your home , especial ! y now that you have to pay the increased rate .
30 Now , unemployment among unskilled black people is six times higher than among whites , because employers have to pay the same rate to both , and they express their prefence by choosing white employees .
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