Example sentences of "[to-vb] [noun] at [adj] rates " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would still be reasonable to suspect that someone prepared to borrow money at high rates of interest was likely to be particularly vulnerable , even if there is now little surviving residue of the old suspicion or disapproval of interest-bearing credit on ethical grounds . |
| 2 | At least financial agencies have some pressure to provide funds at competitive rates , and builders to guard against pricing themselves out of the market , but landowners just have to sit on the land until they get the price they demand . |
| 3 | However , this class may actually enter into economic activities for private gain using , for example , its privileged position to secure credit at favourable rates of interest , obtain monopolies and franchises in import and export businesses , start up industrial enterprises , speculate in urban property and so on ( for a debate about the bureaucracy in lesser developed countries , see Coulson 1975 ; Leys 1975 : 193f . ) . |
| 4 | The latest variants on royalty structures use branches of a Dutch company , which operate in much the same way as finance branches , and rely on exemptions to avoid tax at full rates in the Netherlands . |
| 5 | Richard Coleman , managing directors of Compass Commercial Services , agreed that the MoD was a significant marketplace , although most of the contracts were now being let on a retender basis and a new insecurity in what was already a high risk business had recently presented itself — the application to the public sector of Transfer of Undertakings legislation , when incoming contractors are obliged to retain staff at current rates of pay , terms and conditions , or pick up the redundancy liability . |
| 6 | Again for example , the property of heat to expand metal at uniform rates is a great advance on the common sense distinction between " hot " and " cold " . |
| 7 | Borrowings include £98 million [ 1991 £70 million ] which is the subject of interest swap agreements under which counterparties have undertaken to pay amounts at fixed rates of interest in consideration for amounts payable by the Group at variable rates of interest . |
| 8 | At a meeting with US Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady on April 12 , the EBRD 's president , Jacques Attali , proposed that the bank be allowed to make loans at concessionary rates for restructuring the region 's poorest economies and for the conversion of military factories to civilian use . |