Example sentences of "rate [prep] [adj] [noun] [conj] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , only the top third of pupils showed a high success rate for this task and the incorrect responses 10p and 40p were common in the middle and bottom attainment bands . |
| 2 | There is no information on the carriage rates for this organism but the apparent increase is of concern , as is its potential to cause invasive disease in some patients . |
| 3 | Similar considerations arise where auditors certify the adjustment rates of convertible shares and the price of shares for employees in share option schemes . |
| 4 | There are theoretical reasons , based on either the arrival rate of new information or the imposition of a minimum price movement , for expecting the distribution of price changes ( or returns ) to be non-normal . |
| 5 | Our aim in this study was to establish whether the rate of unnecessary operations and the rate of complicated appendicitis among patients undergoing surgery for suspected acute appendicitis were related to the time of presentation to hospital and the delay between presentation and surgery . |
| 6 | For example Elbaum and Wilkinson ( 1979 ) explain differences in industrial relations in the United States and British steel industries from the late nineteenth century in terms of the increasing differences in the size of the market , the rate of technological innovation and the degree of industrial concentration in the two countries . |
| 7 | These different views combine to provide so much more detail of the course , the problems faced en route to the green , the success rate of various shots and the difficulties faced when putting . |
| 8 | Kerseys were made at Midhurst and Petworth and leather workers were prominent in Horsham , one of the most flourishing towns in the Weald of Sussex , as well as a prime example of a town which , despite an outstanding rate of economic growth since the last general fiscal revaluation in 1334 , remained unplaced in the national league table ( see Table 2.7 ) . |
| 9 | The 1927 powers of detention were conferred at a time of enormous concern about the high birth rate of mental defectives and the supposed decline in the ‘ national intelligence ’ . |
| 10 | Its mineralogical composition , particularly in terms of the proportion of unstable mineral phases present , will affect both the rate of chemical decomposition and the kinds of secondary minerals that are most likely to form . |
| 11 | Both ‘ foreign ’ multinationals operating within Britain and British enterprises with substantial overseas production facilities can ‘ plan ’ the international distribution of their profit-making taking into account comparative costs , the state and growth rate of national markets and the degree of militancy or subordination of labour . |
| 12 | It was because of this shocking rate of avoidable death that the British Society for the Social Responsibility of-Science published Asbestos — Killer Dust in 1979 . |
| 13 | Mendel argues that the government 's policy of a high rate of indirect taxation and the high price of imported goods meant that industry , far from bringing benefit to the masses , actually contributed to their impoverishment . |
| 14 | For example , it may be of little value that the authorities are able to control interest rates via monetary instruments if the relevant objectives are not very sensitive to changes in interest rates . |
| 15 | It is little known that poll tax collectors not only have the authority to arrest those they suspect of defaulting on poll tax and strip them naked for the purposes of search ( without any obligation to mend or replace clothing which is destroyed in the process ) , but they can also apply torture in cases where they have reason to believe poll tax is being withheld — at any rate until such time as the defaulters reveal where their money is hidden . |
| 16 | However , the former lagged the change in interest rate by six quarters and the latter by five quarters , and both used the ( perhaps unrealistic ) rate on long-term government bonds . |