Example sentences of "at the [adj] rate [conj] " in BNC.

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1 After 1980 it was possible for charities to reclaim tax paid on money covenanted to them for four years or more , not just at the standard rate of tax , but at the higher rate if individuals paid tax at the higher rate .
2 In the same way , if your spouse pays income tax at the higher rate and you pay tax at only the ( lower ) basic rate , then in order to obtain Higher Rate Tax Relief , your spouse should enter into the covenant , or into a Joint Deed of Covenant with you , and he/she should actually make the covenant payments .
3 Similarly , if your spouse pays income tax at the higher rate and you pay tax at only the ( lower ) basic rate , then your spouse should make the Gift Aid payment in order to obtain the higher rate relief .
4 In Powys , £10.08 million was paid in 1982 on 66,900 cattle , 855,100 sheep at the higher rate and 420,100 sheep at the lower rate .
5 Of these claims , 1535 ( 77.2% ) were paid at the higher rate and 453 ( 22.8% ) at the lower rate paid for visits done by deputising services .
6 It may increase slightly but if fertility continues to decline at the present rate that is unlikely .
7 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
8 It is this age group which is now growing at the fastest rate and the support of the sometimes frail ‘ old ’ is an important policy issue .
9 For the purpose of assessing liability to VAT in the UK , supplies of goods or services provided by a business are divided into taxable supplies ( standard-rated supplies liable to VAT at the standard rate and zero-rated supplies ) and exempt supplies .
10 By awarding themselves hefty Christmas bonuses now they will be able to pay tax on the extra money at the current rate and save themselves thousands of pounds .
11 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 .
12 J. Mill of the Internal Revenue Service is instructed to collect the income tax at the lower rate but he may seek to maintain revenue , and hence the status of his agency , by closing loopholes .
13 He did n't know you had to change $60 into cordobas at the official rate before you could get into the country .
14 If ss160 and 162 apply , their effect is to treat the " beneficial element " of the Newco shares as if it were an interest-free loan to the managers , and tax them under Schedule E on the " cash equivalent " of the beneficial loan , ie tax on notional interest charged at the official rate while the " loan " remains outstanding .
15 A government resolution aiming at a solution of the cash crisis , reported on May 15 , included the introduction of non-cash methods of payment exclusively for transactions worth over 10,000 roubles ( 1 rouble=US$0.5646 at the official rate as at May 18 , 1992 ) .
16 At the beginning of May the minimum monthly wage was almost doubled , to 1,000 roubles ( 1 rouble=US$0.5708 at the official rate as at May 1 , 1992 ) .
17 The budget deficit ceiling was set at 950,100 million roubles ( US$1=0.5461 roubles at the official rate as at July 13 , 1992 ) , representing 12-14 per cent of the projected 1992 gross national product ( for projected deficit for the first quarter see p. 38923 ) .
18 After the publication of the plan , numbers were reduced , though not at the anticipated rate and only in the face of strong criticism from some quarters .
19 Those include poor seed-beds and treatments incorrectly applied , either at the wrong rate or timing , or under too dry conditions .
20 The profitability margin will continue increasing , he said , because IBM is not investing in development at the same rate that sales of the RS/6000 are growing .
21 using it at the same rate but it 's going for a longer time .
22 No two people age at the same rate or in the same way .
23 Do we forget all kinds of knowledge at the same rate or is some knowledge more enduring ?
24 Many professionals within the Lloyd 's market welcome the current crop of departures as there is an excess of financial capacity within the market at a time when business is not growing at the same rate as the available capacity .
25 Even if this were politically possible , which it is not , petrol taxes punish the rural lunch-time driver at the same rate as the urban peak-time driver , when the latter causes far more harm .
26 And pensions have not been going up at the same rate as the cost of living .
27 More disposals are likely in 1992 , although not at the same rate as last year .
28 Where the snout , or end , of a glacier stayed in one place for many years — which was when the ice was advancing at the same rate as it was melting — more and more boulder clay was dumped at the glacier snout .
29 They were usually billed as the star attraction so John obviously made a good profit out of them but they were still paid at the same rate as all his juveniles , five shillings a week .
30 I mean , surely the English hens were laying at the same rate as they did in peacetime ?
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