Example sentences of "the rate of [noun] [prep] the " 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 fall of the glucose concentration may be important . |
| 6 | All the evidence available suggests that the rate of fall of the glucose concentration does not affect the response to hypoglycaemia in a clamp . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Private firms should invest if the rate of return on the project exceeds the market interest rate at which they can borrow funds . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The politician is the organ of society for having its cake and eating it , for escaping , if only for a moment , if only through a form of art — art is , after all , a means of escape — from the grimness of reality , from this grim fact that you ca n't have the cake and eat it , that you ca n't have public expenditure increased in excess of the rate of increase of the national product , unless private claims are correspondingly surrendered . |
| 20 | Therefore , if the Government can finance its expenditure without taxation by some other method , namely through inflation , by creating the additional spending power and infusing it into the economy , that is an ideal solution to an insoluble problem — how to increase public expenditure faster than the rate of increase of the national income without the rest of the community having to surrender any claims or expectations . |
| 21 | Let us suppose that a Government , a party , observing that the rate of increase of the national income has been as high as 3 per cent in real terms over the last few years , were to decide to make plans which involve the growth of public expenditure at the rate of 2and1/2 ; per cent , so as to be a little within the recent happy experience . |
| 22 | But in the developing world the rate of increase in food production has been exceeded by the rate of increase of the population , and now there is not enough food being produced in the developing world for the local population . |
| 23 | You can also study the rate of increase of the beetles , as described for aphids in Chapter 4 . |
| 24 | The rate of increase during the past three weeks is comparable with that seen in 1975 , when infection levels rose to an average weekly rate of 350 per 100,000 population . |
| 25 | In the following year , as already noted , the cost of living rose by 120 per cent ( average for the year ) , and by the end of the year the rate of increase for the previous twelve months had reached 170 per cent . |
| 26 | The slow-down in the rate of increase between the third and fourth time bands reflects the saturation of the new ‘ market ’ as the industry reached maturity , and started to take on fewer new staff . |
| 27 | Mr Tony Blair , Labour 's employment spokesman , said the rate of increase in the jobless total appeared to have slowed , but he said more were out of work than in virtually every other European Community country . |
| 28 | Today the rate of increase in food production has exceeded the rate of increase in the total world population . |
| 29 | This strategy has at different points in time involved the abolition of certain benefits , a reduction in the numbers eligible to those that remain , the curtailment of the rate of increase in the value of benefits and real cuts in their financial worth . |
| 30 | Similarly , the finding that class size affects performance , and ancillary evidence on the rate of increase in the frequency of large classes , has directly led to the provision of additional purpose-built accommodation for large classes . |