Example sentences of "[noun] of raise " in BNC.

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1 In conducting this review the University has taken into account the feasibility of raising the necessary funding from outside sources .
2 The career of James I was marked by ingenious methods of raising cash , by fair means or foul ; and similar expropriation was to lead his heir , Charles I , to his downfall .
3 In the fifteenth century these methods of raising an army proved insufficient and a new method of collecting men was introduced — the devşirme .
4 Companies already listed on the Stock Exchange have two basic methods of raising additional equity capital :
5 For this reason , Patterson 's data ( being chiefly polysyllables ) most probably attest to a late stage in the loss of raising before nasals , a change that had formerly affected a wider range of environments .
6 Alongside a programme of raising skill levels is the need to dovetail an investment programme .
7 At the same time the Trust stepped up its routine programme of raising woody plants of species from seeds gathered in the wild as well as from its own properties .
8 A proposed programme of resettlement from the most overpopulated areas was shelved for fear of raising peasant expectations and unleashing dangerous mass migration .
9 However , the practice of raising pages and pages of additional enquiries is now strongly discouraged , and the enquiries necessary are simply those to fulfil one 's professional obligations to one 's client .
10 The queen 's eldest brother , lord Scales , apparently returned to East Anglia , where his own land lay , and Gloucester may have accompanied him , perhaps ( as the Howard letter seems to imply ) with the intention of raising more men .
11 At the outset the number was eight , but this resulted in a slow turnover between measurements , and after some early trials the number was reduced to two , with the intention of raising it again for serious measurements if the results were encouraging .
12 My right hon. Friend the Prime Minister has made it clear that we have no intention of raising the rate of VAT either before or after the election .
13 The queen 's eldest brother , lord Scales , apparently returned to East Anglia , where his own land lay , and Gloucester may have accompanied him , perhaps ( as the Howard letter seems to imply ) with the intention of raising more men .
14 * The Department of the Environment has confirmed that it has no immediate intention of raising its target of recycling 25 per cent of domestic waste by the end of the century .
15 other hos members of other hospitals in the area and discuss different aspects of raising the standards of care .
16 The effect of raising the temperature is to make the individual molecules move faster , so that collisions can overcome the activation energy .
17 Peruvian agrarian reform has had the effect of raising the consciousness of the peasantry .
18 The very considerations which make many so anxious to establish that value judgements are objective , a sense of the urgent social need of common rules , disquiet at the anarchic consequences of everyone doing as he likes , have had the effect of raising irrelevant doubts about that objectivity .
19 It also has the effect of raising the back edge so as to hide the joints at the bottom and provide a start for the graceful curve down from the top edge .
20 A similar strategy , explored by Salop and Scheffman ( 1987 ) , is where integration or contracts entered into by the incumbent have the effect of raising rivals costs , e.g. where a contract with a supplier specifies that an input will only be supplied to an entrant at a higher price than that enjoyed by the incumbent .
21 Then the effect of raising the employer 's social security tax will be for the employer to pay lower wages than he or she otherwise would .
22 This had the effect of raising the efficiency of land and creating a greater surplus .
23 This will have the effect of raising the demand and , ceteris paribus , the price of the high return security .
24 Table 17.4 illustrates the effect of raising the ratio from 20 per cent to 25 per cent .
25 Unfortunately , many market prices are distorted by indirect taxes and subsidies : indirect taxes have the effect of raising the prices of goods above what would otherwise have been set , while subsidies lower such prices .
26 In other words , we can write : It is preferable ( and usual ) to measure the value of total output at factor cost rather than in market prices , otherwise an increase in indirect taxation or a reduction in subsidies would have the effect of raising the estimate of total output even when no greater quantity of goods and services was being produced .
27 Funds raised on the money markets are wholesale , large amounts , so that the expense of raising them is quite small in that it does not require an expensive branch network to attract deposits in small amounts .
28 However , talk of raising German interest rates saw sterling weaken against the Mark and it closed down over one Ffenning at two Deutsche Marks point nine three six O.
29 This introduced a new currency and set out the necessary steps of raising taxes , cutting public spending , selling state monopolies , keeping wage increases realistic and generally enlivening Argentina 's corporatist state .
30 Here , on an acre formerly abounding in thistles and docks , we have woven our own covert of windbreaks and fuchsia bushes and make great play of raising cabbages where cabbages — or at least , where sweetcorn , courgettes and petits pois — were hardly intended to grow .
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