Example sentences of "rate at [pron] the " in BNC.

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1 The rate at which the angle is changed must depend on the speed at the time , and this has to be judged because there is insufficient time to check the ASI .
2 The tricky economic and political question is the exchange rate at which the pound would join the ERM .
3 The individual , not a supervisor or the speed of a conveyor belt , decides the rate at which the task is carried out ; this is termed a ‘ self-paced task ’
4 By subtracting the slow rate at which the planet 's surface is rising in the Barbados area , known from previous geological work onshore , he could work out where sea level stood at different times in the past .
5 Since the average rate at which the foreign debt was raised was probably about 25 dinars , its dinar value in early 1988 was about 50 times as great , approximately the same as the change in the cost of living over the same period .
6 In addition , Ferrari has also shown that the shock waves which accompany the impulsive waves only affect the rate at which the Weyl scalars diverge on the singularity .
7 How much you get depends on how long you have worked for the employer and the accrued rate at which the pension builds up .
8 One theoriser , Seville Chapman , put forward the idea that a fielder used trigonometry without realising what he was doing , making unconscious calculations from the rate at which the tangent of the angle of the elevation of the ball changes .
9 In 1976 BR told the government : ‘ Current levels of investment are quite inadequate to keep pace with the rate at which the system and its assets are running down and wearing out … to maintain the present investment ceilings would entail the progressive decline and eventual closure of a substantial proportion of the system and its services . ’
10 The video writing speed ( the rate at which the rotating video heads track across the tape ) is 3.8 metres per second for countries such as the US and Japan which have 525-line pictures , and 3.2 m/s for Europe 's 625 lines .
11 In essence , changes to material chemistry within the hydrogel family produce changes in the rate at which the various spoiling processes occur , but do not inhibit them .
12 Since the fraction of faults that are unfamiliar , ie the novelty rate , is high , especially in the early years of repair , the rate at which the knowledge base is changing is also high .
13 The rate at which the economy can grow is now constrained more directly and immediately than ever before by the extent to which exports rise relative to import penetration .
14 The rate at which the Indian and Eurasian plates collide has slowed down since the Eocene — some 50 to 30 million years ago — to half its original rate .
15 The effectiveness usually lasts for some weeks , but is variable , depending largely on the amount of new growth being produced , and therefore the rate at which the toxic content is being diluted , and the speed of living — called the metabolic rate — which affects the rate at which the plant is able to break down and divest itself of what after all is a ‘ foreign body ’ .
16 The effectiveness usually lasts for some weeks , but is variable , depending largely on the amount of new growth being produced , and therefore the rate at which the toxic content is being diluted , and the speed of living — called the metabolic rate — which affects the rate at which the plant is able to break down and divest itself of what after all is a ‘ foreign body ’ .
17 An important point to remember about EOG recordings made using EEG amplifiers is that they never give direct information about the direction of gaze — only changes in direction — and the rate at which the galvanometer pens return to the midline of the paper chart is determined by the time constant setting .
18 It would not be expected to depend particularly on the frequency , the rate at which the waves rose and fell .
19 The rate at which the hatchlings grow varies considerably .
20 The size and humidity of each warehouse will affect the rate at which the whiskey ages .
21 Erm what do you think affects the rate at which the reaction goes ?
22 How does heat affect the rate at which the reaction goes ?
23 Thus the radiation at high frequencies would be reduced , and so the rate at which the body lost energy would be finite .
24 The maximum speed attainable with each switching angle is simply the stepping rate at which the appropriate characteristic intersects the " load torque " line : The velocity profile during acceleration can be calculated Precisely for each switching angle using the graphical method described in Section 6.3 .
25 Subsequently , he instituted the present friendly proceedings to test the legal position in regard to the rate at which the rent was payable .
26 The rate of interest on the borrowed funds is known , as is the rate at which the funds can be lent .
27 In the Newtonian approximation the rate at which the radius vector ( from O to the pulsar ) marks out the area of the orbit is a constant ( see Fig. 8.8(b) ) .
28 In order to estimate the rate at which the orbit decays we need to compare this , the rate of energy loss , with the total energy of the binary pair Using the radial equation of motion for either star we obtain whence .
29 This process of convergence to the full information steady state also reduces the rate at which the B t 's learn the type of the A's .
30 The large values for Ct in the early periods of play do speed the rate at which the B t 's learn from the signal extraction process ( 4 ) .
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