Example sentences of "rate [prep] [noun sg] [prep] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In poplars , it has been found that there are increased concentrations and rates of synthesis of phenolics within 52 hours of attack . |
| 2 | The term structure of interest rates is the relationship between the rates of return on bonds with different maturity dates . |
| 3 | In the first , which we cover in this section , we examine the relationship between spot and forward exchange rates , and in the second we examine the relationship between the rates of return on assets with differing terms . |
| 4 | Chronology is one of the cornerstones of geomorphology , and researchers are urged to balance their studies of present geomorphic processes by an appreciation of rates of work over timescales of 10 4 — 10 6 years . |
| 5 | In 1820 Sir Frederick Adam published his Survey of the State of the Poor , in which he showed that throughout the shires rates of pay for labourers of all types were low , and that many families lived on small quantities of wheaten or barley bread , skimmed milk , cheese , potatoes and legumes , meat hardly ever figuring in their diet . |
| 6 | There are differential rates of pay for drivers of trailer trams ( 17% bonus ) , single-deck OMOs ( 20% ) and double-deck OMOs ( 25% ) . |
| 7 | The romanticized picture of housewives happy over their labour of love is also challenged by accounts of the higher rates of depression among women with small children who stay at home , by such eagerness to take paid work that they will accept rates of pay and conditions of employment that no man would tolerate , and by accounts of the slow hard slog and monotony of housework . |
| 8 | High rates of depression among mothers of young children and a strong association between maternal depression and disturbance in the children have been found by Richman ( 1978 ) and Crook and Wolkind ( 1983 ) . |
| 9 | Charities can reclaim pay repayment of basic rates of tax on gifts of as little as even two hundred and fifty pounds . |
| 10 | It recommended that the councils monitor the rates of submission of theses by research students in every university , so as to be able to impose sanctions on universities whose rates were unsatisfactory . |
| 11 | This could arise , for example , in researching into the voting behaviour of , say , white-collar workers , or the differential rates of absenteeism among workers within a particular plant . |
| 12 | With a faster rate of transfer of workers from old machines to new ones , the proportion of more modern , higher-productivity machines in use rises . |
| 13 | We shall examine the development of the rate of profit in terms of two statistical components . |
| 14 | The cumulative national rate of circumcision for boys by the age of 15 is almost 7% . |
| 15 | The first point to note is that , whatever their growth rates , all firms generate the same total rate of return on assets of 15 per cent , and that this is the same as the cost of capital or discount rate . |
| 16 | It is easy to give examples where individual outsiders benefit from the activity of insiders ; the fact remains that the expected rate of return to outsiders on stock market investments ( even to the large institutional investors such as pensions funds and mutual funds ) is lowered by insider dealing . |
| 17 | As with chimneys , so with synapses ; if they are constructed — or even reconstructed — during learning , one might expect a brief increase in the rate of synthesis of proteins over the time when an animal was being trained and memory was being formed . |
| 18 | the average rate of formation of stars in the Galaxy |
| 19 | To do so , it is necessary briefly to increase the rate of insertion of bricks at a particular point in the house — the roof — without changing the rate of removal ; bricks thus accumulate as the chimney is constructed . |
| 20 | The main boost for those groups will come from the reduction in the rate of ACT on dividends from 25 per cent now to 22.5 per cent next year and 20 per cent in the 1994-95 tax year . |
| 21 | So that the annual average rate of provision of dwellings in North Yorkshire is something like three thousand one hundred and eighty two dwellings . |
| 22 | It also cost the German central bank a guarantee of a fixed future rate of conversion of dollars into marks . |
| 23 | Earlier in this chapter we described the rate of referral of cases to the development officers , and Table 3. 1 shows the size of their case load month by month . |
| 24 | The difference ( positive or negative ) between the rate of growth of GDP and the combined , weighted rate of growth of inputs of labour and capital , known as total factor input ( TFI ) , gives the rate of growth of productivity . |
| 25 | In common with most other professional bodies the Institute has seen a substantial increase in the rate of growth of complaints against members in recent years ; in 1991 , we received 20% more complaints than in 1990 . |
| 26 | These policies were incorporated into the Fifth Plan , formulated in 1964 and 1965 , which aimed at an annual rate of growth of profits of 8.6 per cent between 1964 and 1970 . |
| 27 | Erm we er well as you know I mean the there 's a very high rate of unemployment amongst tenants in the flats , |
| 28 | Generally , most stockbrokers and financial advisers charge the same rate of commission on bargains in convertibles as they do in equities . |
| 29 | In the years of heaviest recession ( measured in this case as 1977–81 ) , the rate of loss of jobs in foreign-owned establishments was on average lower than that of all UK privately-owned establishments . |
| 30 | The addition of nutrients has made little difference to the rate of succession at sites in Sheffield . |