Example sentences of "equal to " in BNC.

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1 The Inland Revenue form R190(SD) contains the certificate and the form requires the donor to state that he satisfies all the conditions relating to Gift Aid ( as to which , see 4 below ) , including the fact that he has paid , or will pay , tax equal to the basic rate on the gross amount of the gift .
2 You also need to bear in mind that you may have other payments under existing deeds of covenant or other payments made under Gift Aid in the same tax year , and you will need to have a taxable income at least equal to the gross amount of all these payment , as well as the Gift Aid payment being contemplated , otherwise you will have to account to the Revenue for some tax .
3 The Shah was equal to these demolitions : ‘ If we pulled one down , he set up three . ’
4 For example , the Audit Commission ( an arm of the treasury ) spent some time in 1987/8 with myself and others in a police research department assessing an OSU ( Operational Support Unit ) administrative system which they claimed had ‘ revolutionized police decision making ’ and released manpower for patrol equal to £6.358 million .
5 Fun and laughter , a mammoth task she felt equal to .
6 This is a key point because you should always feel more or less equal to that which confronts you .
7 ( An influence on Leonard equal to that of A. M. Klein , also a lawyer , but more importantly a poet-novelist of considerable skill , whose familiarity with literature equalled his Jewish erudition and commitment unlike Leonard he was a ‘ ghetto ’ Jew of Montreal ) .
8 The standard charge is set by the local council , and can be zero , one half , equal to , one and a half or twice the cost of the personal community charge in the area .
9 For those who qualify for this extra help the reduction will be equal to the community charge minus £52 .
10 This is equal to 20% and 32% respectively of average adult earnings .
11 Age Concern believes that the basic state pension should be equal to one third average earnings for a single pension and one half for a couple .
12 If the coil is positioned for maximum output an offset adjustment equal to the mean magnitude of the field is required , but need be no more complicated than an offset bias to the following amplifier input .
13 The requirement is a pair of close-wound coils , mounted on the same axis and separated by a mean distance equal to their mean radius , as shown in Fig. 12 .
14 Make the series capacitors equal in value and the total value of these capacitors equal to the load capacitor : CL = 1/2Vrf , where I is the load current , VR is the maximum allowed p-p ripple voltage , and f is the output frequency .
15 Since each dot is followed by a spacing period equal to the dot duration , the dot signal length — shortest element in the code — is 1/80th of a second and the telegraphic speed is 80 Baud .
16 Morse code is unequal in length so conversion of the above information into words per minute requires knowledge of the average number of unit elements , equal to a five-letter word plus one word space .
17 The transmit shunts bypass the record coils when the send/receive switch is at transmit and are adjusted such that the current through the recorder at the transmitting station is equal to that present on reception .
18 As for Dorothy 's loyalty , it proved equal to any occasion ; and in particular through the years of Pound 's incarceration in St Elizabeth 's her devotion was exemplary .
19 But Mhoira , in and out of the uniform she wore with such pride , was equal to any of them .
20 And they tell you that two AS-levels are equal to an A-level when it comes to applying for university places . ’
21 IMAGINE the reaction if , say , Ladbroke came to its shareholders and said : ‘ The Government have decreed that we will have to rebid for our betting licence in 1992 , and to put ourselves in a better position to win it we are taking on borrowings equal to our equity and giving our managers around 15 per cent of the company . ’
22 Forty of LWT 's managers will be allowed to subscribe for these at a price equal to LWT 's share price today , minus 130p .
23 You have to pay SMP to any woman who has been continuously employed by you for at least 26 weeks into the qualifying week and whose average weekly earnings are at least equal to the lower earnings limit for NI contributions which applied in the qualifying week .
24 Were her average weekly earnings ( see page 20 ) equal to or above the lower earnings limit ?
25 Only at the end of November did the State Bank introduce a new denomination of notes equal to the gold content of the pre-war ten-rouble coin .
26 Given the straits to which the British economy was reduced in 1947 , when it was necessary to ration even bread and potatoes , an outflow of capital equal to about 8 per cent of national income and nearly equal to total net domestic capital formation ( including stock-building ) is a very extraordinary event .
27 If these richly-endowed giants of the developing world are barely equal to the task of liberalization , Africa is much less equipped for the challenge , and much less prepared to face it .
28 Keep within the recommended guidelines , which are measured in units — equal to a glass of wine or half pint of beer .
29 It is required to know what the relationship is between A and E , choosing from : greater than ; less than ; equal to ; can not say .
30 Ultradian cycles do not lengthen to become equal to 24 hours .
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