Example sentences of "[art] rate [prep] [noun] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If dyspepsia is to be used to identify a particularly high risk group ( such as coal miners ) , then we must know the rate of dyspepsia in the group we are studying and the extent to which it differs from that in the general population . |
| 2 | As mentioned above , the rate of reduction in the level of infant mortality was not uniform in each maternal age group . |
| 3 | Settling tanks can be of several types , and they use the principle of slowing the rate of flow of the water to allow the solid particles to fall out as a sludge that can be removed separately . |
| 4 | ‘ I think the first thing I tend to do ’ , said an area supervisor , ‘ is … to look at the normal working standards normally applied and see whether they would be adequate to protect the river ; and you then take into account the flow , the volume of the discharge or the rate of flow of the discharge and the volume . ’ |
| 5 | The rate of pay for a navvy was 6½d per hour , which averaged out at about 28 shillings per week . |
| 6 | The rate of fall of the glucose concentration may be important . |
| 7 | All the evidence available suggests that the rate of fall of the glucose concentration does not affect the response to hypoglycaemia in a clamp . |
| 8 | On the other hand , this degradation of the bench must be a slow process , so that the rate of cutting of a marine bench may be expected to become slower as it becomes wider . |
| 9 | ‘ The rate of work with an umbilical hose system is much higher than that you could achieve with one man and a tanker driving from store to field . ’ |
| 10 | Another important feature of the gal P1 promoter is that upstream curved sequences differentially affect the kinetic step at which CRP accelerates the rate of formation of an open complex [ 40 ] . |
| 11 | ( b ) Calculate to four significant figures the ratio of the rate of diffusion through a porous membrane of hydrogen chloride gas composed wholly of molecules to the rate of diffusion of a gas composed wholly of molecules , both gases being at the same temperature and pressure . |
| 12 | In 1833 , he summarised his results in the following law : the rate of diffusion of a gas is inversely proportional to the square root of its density . |
| 13 | ( b ) What can you do to deduce from the fact that at s.t.p. 22.4 dm of carbon dioxide contain rather more than ( c ) ( i ) State Graham 's law of diffusion. ( ii ) The ratio of the rate of diffusion of a gas Y to that of nitrogen was to be 0.366 . |
| 14 | ( b ) Calculate to four significant figures the ratio of the rate of diffusion through a porous membrane of hydrogen chloride gas composed wholly of molecules to the rate of diffusion of a gas composed wholly of molecules , both gases being at the same temperature and pressure . |
| 15 | In addition , many components of jet-lag — altered sleep , fatigue , loss of appetite , changed bowel movements — are found , and the rate of adjustment of the body rhythms to a simulated time-zone transition is similar to that observed after real transitions . |
| 16 | The integrity of this method of labelling the meal has been well established by incubation of labelled scrambled egg with simulated gastric juice at 37°C and monitoring the rate of release of the label into the liquid phase . |
| 17 | Although automatic and semi-automatic high-bay warehousing systems are being built abroad at an ever increasing rate — some 2,000 have been constructed in Japan in the last fifteen years — the rate of development in the United Kingdom may only be described as slow . |
| 18 | Such an approach has characterised many Western cities in the post-war period and has undoubtedly retarded the rate of deterioration in the quality of life in residential areas . |
| 19 | Finally , different antihypertensive drugs ' appropriateness for the impaired renal function of diabetic subjects should be determined by their differences concerning clinically relevant end points — for example , difference in the rate of deterioration in the glomerular filtration rate . |
| 20 | The Net Present Value calculation , for instance , yields a figure of merit for an investment project which effectively shows whether the rate of return on a project is in excess of the compound interest to be paid on the money capital required to finance it . |
| 21 | Equivalently , on a flow basis , firms compare the rate of return on a new investment with the interest rate at which they must borrow to finance the project . |
| 22 | ( The rate of return on an additional investment is sometimes called the marginal efficiency of investment or MEI . ) |
| 23 | It could be that a firm may only be able to say with any certainty that it expects the rate of return on an investment project to be within a particular range , say 10 to 15 per cent . |
| 24 | Rent control leads to a decline in the rate of return on the rented accommodation , when compared to what could be earned if the capital value of the house were invested elsewhere . |
| 25 | In particular it relies on estimating the final cost of the investment , the amount and timing of returns , the rate of return on the alternative investment ( the ‘ hurdle rate ’ ) and the rate of real deterioration of items of productive capital . |
| 26 | Using daily data for the period from October 1984 to September 1985 , they found that the covariance between the riskless rate of interest and the rate of return on the spot asset had a statistically significant positive effect on the futures price . |
| 27 | The question of measuring the response of the futures market to changes in the rate of return on the market portfolio will be considered further in Chapter 7 . |
| 28 | Private firms should invest if the rate of return on the project exceeds the market interest rate at which they can borrow funds . |
| 29 | Table 6.6 includes 3 different risk-free rates to illustrate the point made by Friend and Blume that these measures are sensitive to the rate of return on the risk-free asset . |
| 30 | It follows from the above examples that profit-maximising firms , operating under conditions of certainty , will invest in projects where the rate of return on the investment exceeds the market rate of interest . |