Example sentences of "[noun] rate was to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was safe to assume , he said , that no more than a dozen MPs knew whether they should be reaching for the champagne or the shotgun when the Government announced last month that the business rate was to be set at 36p in the pound last month . |
| 2 | The basic rate of income tax was to be reduced from 29p to 27p in the punt , and the upper 52 per cent tax rate was to be abolished , leaving a single higher rate of 48 per cent . |
| 3 | The pilot study , which resembled the main survey as closely as possible , revealed that the questions , covering letter and coding frame presented no difficulties , but that several nurses did not own rulers for measuring ulcers ; and that inducements to respond , effective reminders , and problems of distribution had to be considered if a high response rate was to be achieved . |
| 4 | The plan for 1988 was that the discount rate was to be fixed each month at 1 per cent above the equivalent annual rate of increase in industrial prices in the previous month . |
| 5 | The question of the birth rate was to be more crucial in the years after the Education Act , in the debates around the Royal Commission on Population , which reported in 1948–49 , but the existence of the commission itself from 1943 demonstrates public and official concern with such ideas in the first few years of the war . |