Example sentences of "[prep] make a profit " in BNC.
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| 1 | M Pelat , an old friend of President Mitterrand from his days as a Resistance fighter , was charged with insider trading in 1988 after making a profit of more than £800,000 during the acquisition of the American Triangle Industries by Pechiney , the French state-owned aluminium and packaging company . |
| 2 | Mr Pelat , an old friend of President Franois Mitterrand from his days as a Resistance fighter , was charged with insider trading in 1988 after making a profit of more than £800,000 during the acquisition of the American Triangle Industries by Pechiney , the French state-owned aluminium and packaging company . |
| 3 | Because disposal of industrial waste is carried out by private enterprise with the sole interest of making a profit , the temptation to dodge intricate and often expensive safety precautions is evident . |
| 4 | Erm , you , a lot of people now talk as though it 's erm , plain sailing or flying for B Sky B and it 's gon na be er , hunky-dory , whereas Anglia Television have just written their stake down to a prenominal amount because they do n't think it 's gon na make , stand a chance of making a profit before the turn of the millennium . |
| 5 | They are not meant to punish the press , but when a publisher deliberately or recklessly sets out to defame another , with the object of making a profit out of that defamation ( ie by increasing circulation ) the law permits " punitive " damages to be awarded , as in Cassell & Co v Broome : David Irving wrote a book about the fate of a wartime convoy , blaming it upon the negligence of a particular captain , Broome . |
| 6 | One way of making a profit . |
| 7 | Er note we 're flexible in our advertising budgets against make a profit in year three . |
| 8 | Nevertheless , the company has succeeded in making a profit for the past seven years . |
| 9 | ‘ We 're more interested in making a profit than signing one , ’ says Newport 's Keith Newbery . |
| 10 | But the more you try and get things done , the more you realize that the government does n't care at all , apart from making a profit . |
| 11 | A concise statutory definition of insider dealing is not offered in the CSA 1985 , but conduct constituting insider dealing may be said to exist where : an insider deliberately deals as principal or agent on a recognised exchange in securities of the company in question on the basis of unpublished price sensitive information with a view to making a profit or avoiding a loss . |
| 12 | Earlier , it was noted that the law prohibits a particular category of person , called an insider , from dealing on the basis of unpublished price sensitive information if he does so with a view to making a profit or avoiding a loss . |
| 13 | Dealing otherwise than with a view to making a profit or avoiding a loss |
| 14 | The most important defence is trading other than with a view to making a profit or avoiding a loss . |
| 15 | The prohibitions in the CSA 1985 are rendered ineffective where the defendant can show that , notwithstanding the fact that he fulfilled all the conditions mentioned in ss.1 and 2 CSA 1985 , the dominant purpose of his trade was not with a view to making a profit or avoiding a loss for either himself or another person . |
| 16 | Experience , however , showed that employers have many priorities — such as making a profit , obtaining orders , producing orders at the right price — and that something which they are not compelled to do , particularly in circumstances where the economic climate is adverse , goes well down the list of priorities . |
| 17 | Say look , I 'm gon na make a profit or I 'm gon na make a lost . |
| 18 | Er and so er , look I 'm gon na make a profit of nineteen hundred . |
| 19 | However , it embraces a whole spectrum — from a deeply responsible press that is extremely careful in what it publishes and which tries to balance one thing with another , to an element that many people regard , perhaps rightly , as frequently scurrilous or simply aimed at making a profit . |
| 20 | The People 's Liberation Army was told at the National People 's Congress in March to meet its financial needs by making a profit out of business operations … it sounds close to privatising the armed forces . |