Example sentences of "the [det] rate " in BNC.
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| 1 | One lesson that we learnt from the transition from domestic rates to the community charge was the injustice of the former rates system to the single-person household . |
| 2 | J. Stasiak ( HAS March 21 ) needs reminding that the community charge was introduced after a lawful groundswell of protest about the former rates system with which many Labour councils played fast and loose . |
| 3 | In November 1989 tea farmers protested about the low prices paid by the Kenya Tea Development Authority , and on Jan. 9 , 1990 , Moi ruled that tea farmers would be paid KSh3.00 per kg , a substantial increase on the former rate of KSh1.90 . |
| 4 | Many professionals within the Lloyd 's market welcome the current crop of departures as there is an excess of financial capacity within the market at a time when business is not growing at the same rate as the available capacity . |
| 5 | Interestingly , not all rhythms develop at the same rate . |
| 6 | Note that if you take Kugelbaum 's football and let all the pentagons expand at the same rate and at the expense of the Ts until every T has shrunk to a point you will be left with a regular dodecahedron , having 12 pentagonal faces . |
| 7 | ‘ Otherwise , if they keep coming in at the same rate , Hong Kong will be totally swamped and will not be able to cope . |
| 8 | Even if this were politically possible , which it is not , petrol taxes punish the rural lunch-time driver at the same rate as the urban peak-time driver , when the latter causes far more harm . |
| 9 | Since then blacks have got richer at almost the same rate as whites , but they have not caught up at all . |
| 10 | Suddenly Star Eye were somewhere where things happened , time was strictly portioned and progressed at the same rate . |
| 11 | It came as no surprise to mystics that DNA is found to function like a right handed helix in which each tread is of the same size and turns at the same rate of 36° per tread . |
| 12 | Sales rose 11 p.c. to £314m in 1991 and profits grew at the same rate , to £13.4m before taxation . |
| 13 | And pensions have not been going up at the same rate as the cost of living . |
| 14 | Although oceanic crust is consumed at destructive plate margins at very nearly the same rate at which it is created at constructive plate margins , a small proportion of mantle material — perhaps only a few per cent — is involved in the generation of andesite magmas at destructive plate margins , and contributes to the volcanic rocks erupted at the surface . |
| 15 | For instance , the single person 's National Insurance retirement pension in 1990 is worth 26 per cent more than unemployment benefit , whereas back in 1972 they were paid at the same rate and had been for most of the period since 1948 . |
| 16 | This will be the case if , for example , you are asked to perform the same job at the same rate of pay but at a different office or factory and the move is catered for by a mobility clause in your contract . |
| 17 | In 1917 women were allowed to drive trams , and were paid 5¾d per hour , the same rate as the men ! |
| 18 | More disposals are likely in 1992 , although not at the same rate as last year . |
| 19 | Levels of β-thromboglobulin and platelet factor 4 were highly significantly correlated both in control subjects and diabetic patients , confirming that these two proteins are released from the same platelet pool and presumably at the same rate . |
| 20 | Where the snout , or end , of a glacier stayed in one place for many years — which was when the ice was advancing at the same rate as it was melting — more and more boulder clay was dumped at the glacier snout . |
| 21 | No two people age at the same rate or in the same way . |
| 22 | They were usually billed as the star attraction so John obviously made a good profit out of them but they were still paid at the same rate as all his juveniles , five shillings a week . |
| 23 | I mean , surely the English hens were laying at the same rate as they did in peacetime ? |
| 24 | If you become unemployed , you draw unemployment benefit at the same rate as retirement pension , but there is no increment for those weeks . |
| 25 | By searching for flashes repeating at exactly the same rate as the radio pulses , they were able to investigate much fainter pulsations than if they had been looking for pulses occurring at an unknown rate . |
| 26 | During selection with malathion and IBP , resistance gene frequency of a stock of Culex quinquefasciatus decreased at the same rate as untreated mosquitoes , whereas with malathion alone the resistance gene frequency increased fourfold in three generations . |
| 27 | In a organ size is increasing roughly at the same rate as body size : the slope of the continuous line thus is about 1 , which denotes isometry , rather than allometry . |
| 28 | For example , although a curie of any radioactive element disintegrates at the same rate as I gram of natural radium ( as found in sea-water ) there is no connection between this and the relative toxicity of the element as compared to radium . |
| 29 | And as it dissolves , it releases at the same rate any compounds mixed in with it . |
| 30 | A girl who is very tall for her age may fear that she will go on growing at the same rate indefinitely , while a boy who is shorter than his mates of the same age may be afraid that he will be permanently undersized . |