Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [adj] profit " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd prefer to see low profits today and high quality tomorrow rather than high profits today and low quality tomorrow . |
| 2 | HSBC , which is expected to release good profits on Monday , still fell 38p to 603p , reflecting the 200-point drop in the Hang Seng index after the Hong Kong governor 's decision to proceed with plans for partial democracy in the colony in the teeth of Chinese hostility . |
| 3 | As for the parent TE is leaving behind , Tandy is expected to show solid profits in 1993 , John Roach , chairman and chief executive said . |
| 4 | The company is expected to show encouraging profits in 1992 ( publishing should yield $ 330m , compared to $ 264m in 1991 ) , but is still burdened with a staggering $ 9bn debt as a legacy of the merger . |
| 5 | Index arbitrage is used to gain risk-free profits from short-term differences in the price of the index futures and the underlying shares . |
| 6 | It appears that the only people that do want BST are the pharmaceutical companies who have genetically engineered the hormone and stand to make extra profits from its introduction . |
| 7 | It was so pitifully easy for the customers : the temptation so hard to resist , to pick up a bar or two of chocolate from the counter , a packet of tea from the shelf , even a bag of flour , as my aunt came from behind the counter , passed through to the kitchen , down the steps into the old still-room to draw vinegar from the cask , or paraffin from the tank ( its pump rattling up-down , up-down ) , or across the yard for corn or toppings , or up the back stairs for some item kept on the little landing ; so that the shop began to make small profit or none at all . |
| 8 | Rentokil aims to raise pre-tax profits and earnings per share by at least 20 per cent a year — and easily did it again in 1992 . |
| 9 | Despite a further weakening of demand , St Ives managed to hold pre-tax profits at £10.1m in the six months to January . |
| 10 | Thanks to higher interest income , the group managed to nudge pre-tax profits £227,000 ahead to £6.3 million , but both turnover at £7.5 million and operating profits were lower . |
| 11 | Thanks to higher interest income , the group managed to nudge pre-tax profits £227,000 ahead to £6.3 million , but both turnover at £7.5 million and operating profits were lower . |
| 12 | Milpitas-based Adaptec Inc is making hay with its disk controllers from the boom in personal computer sales generated by the price war , and says it expects to report net profit of about $50m , 1.90 per share for its fiscal year to March 31 1993 , on sales more than double last year 's $150.3m . |
| 13 | Vienna , Virginia-based Legent Corp warns that it expects to report net profit of about $18.4m or $0.52 per share for the second quarter ended Aprch 31 , compared with the $0.44 before charges that it reported last year ; turnover will be about flat with the $102.5m a year ago : the news caused a bloodbath in the Legent share price , which slumped 16% , $6.125 , to land up at $33.25 . |
| 14 | It seems at first quite astonishing to learn that neither the inventory in Jacques 's marriage contract nor that made after death provides any evidence that he was a flute-player or maker ; they seem to contradict the generally held view that he was a maker - a view which is supported by an entry in von Uffenbach 's diary which records a visit he paid Jacques in 1715 : ‘ He [ Jacques ] led me into a tidy room and showed me there many beautiful transverse flutes that he himself makes and from which he wishes to gain special profit . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ You 're trying to make excessive profit . ’ |
| 16 | And the problem is exacerbated with the level of competition on the market increasing all the time — many hardware vendors , for example , are trying to boost dwindling profits by moving into this arena — many observers question whether IBM Corp can actually make money from facilities management . |
| 17 | The recent surge in stockmarket volume and the hasty dusting-down of the houses ' new-issue departments threaten to bring quick profit back to the industry and delude its bosses that the good times are returning . |