Example sentences of "[adv] the rate " in BNC.
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| 1 | The second reason for rising poverty — and the flip-side of increased receipt of state benefits — has been falling employment rates , especially the rates of full-time employment . |
| 2 | Perhaps the main achievement of the political right has been to slow down the rate of growth in public spending and to identify some of it as ‘ wasteful ’ . |
| 3 | ‘ What we would like to do , ’ says Dennis Tunnicliffe , ‘ is slow down the rate of growth because my system is full . |
| 4 | The Government did manage to bring down the rate of income tax , but at the same time we increased the annual budget for health between 1983 and 1987 from £15.5 billion to £20.7 billion and for social security from £36.7 billion to £48.7 billion . |
| 5 | They have developed a means of cutting down the rate at which water passes through their systems and out through pores ( stomata ) in their leaves . |
| 6 | It automatically slows down the rate of eating for you ! |
| 7 | You should remember that a fridge does n't kill bacteria , only slows down the rate at which they multiply . |
| 8 | This view actually parallels modern scientific thinking , which presumes that the universe is evolving towards final destruction when the inevitable pull of gravity slows down the rate of expansion . |
| 9 | Apart from having a direct effect on the redistribution of income and wealth , the regulation of the capital market would also have slowed down the rate of economic growth and indirectly prevented large accumulation of capital by individual families . |
| 10 | The domestic authorities can simply allow internal inflation to push down the rate of exchange . |
| 11 | Several mentioned that in recent years the rate of voluntary leaving had decreased so that they were no longer able to rely upon increasing or slowing down the rate of recruitment to maintain their labour forces at the desired level . |
| 12 | All it would do is slow down the rate of change . |
| 13 | He finds no real evidence of any government attempting to hold down the rate of inflation in the short run in order to promote its own popularity at election time . |
| 14 | John Houghton , director of the Meteorological Office and chair of the IPCC 's Working Group I , said that Thatcher 's programme , if repeated worldwide , would not stop the rise in temperatures , but would slow down the rate of increase . |
| 15 | A further cut was made on Feb. 1 , 1991 , to bring down the rate to 6 per cent [ see p. 37997 ] . |
| 16 | As I read the previous documents , the strategy was to bring down the rate of development in North Yorkshire and that has happened . |
| 17 | This would drive up the price of securities and drive down the rate of interest . |
| 18 | The excess supply of money in the domestic money market will push down the rate of interest . |
| 19 | Strikingly , MITI frequently tried to slow down the rate of accumulation to avoid overcapacity , a problem exacerbated by the increasing size of new plants which reduced the number to be built each year . |
| 20 | Declining profit shares and falling output-capital ratios combined to push down the rate of profit ( figures 11.6 and 11.7 ) . |
| 21 | Whatever weight one attaches to each of these factors , the extent and pattern of accumulation undeniably drove down the rate of profit in the years before 1973 . |
| 22 | The idea is that the Government would maintain a central funding role , and would lay down the rates of benefit , while at the same time encouraging organizations , possibly private ones , to handle the payments to customers . |
| 23 | Prices and incomes policies have been justified historically on the grounds that , if successful , they serve directly to scale down the rates of increase of money wages and absolute prices while minimizing the rise in unemployment which a policy of demand restriction would entail . |
| 24 | It is time that has speeded up , so everything gets speeded up — not just the clocks — but your heart-beat , your breathing , the rate at which your brain ticks over , and so the rate at which you think . |
| 25 | Swainson 's original contract called for him to produce volumes at three-month intervals ; he had already done preliminary work for his abortive encyclopedia , but even so the rate of production envisaged is astonishing , and it is not surprising that Swainson failed to keep up with his timetable . |
| 26 | Thus the radiation at high frequencies would be reduced , and so the rate at which the body lost energy would be finite . |
| 27 | The equilibrium position is between the two separate phase equilibrium positions and so the rate of change of flux linkages with rotor position is relatively large . |
| 28 | So the rate of growth of employment was much less than the rate of accumulation ( figure 11.3 ) . |
| 29 | Recognising the inherent flexibility of microelectronics-based technologies it seeks to influence not only the rate of change but also the choice and design of new technology and associated systems of working . |
| 30 | Thus the rate for the eldest eligible child will rise in April by 40p to £9.65 a week and the rate for other children by 30p to £7.80 . |