Example sentences of "[adj] profit [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the bottom of the group P&L account , BOC gives two eps figures : 19.34p based on published profit for the financial year , and 44.15p before the goodwill write-off . |
| 2 | Only a few millions extra profit on the previous year 's £145million are likely to be revealed today . |
| 3 | The potential extra profit for the farmer is an impressive £7150 . |
| 4 | They point out that when you hand over your housekeeping at the Sainsbury checkout , more than seven per cent of your money is pure profit for the store chain . |
| 5 | Superdrug claims until now up to sixty per cent of the perfume price has simply been pure profit for the retailer . |
| 6 | Individual capitalists could serve his cause , even making a personal profit on the way , but they were also selling the rope with which they and their class were going to be hanged . |
| 7 | I want to thank also er the different organisations , cos you made an absolute profit for the G P O , er erm British Telecom , they must have actually made a bomb in Leicestershire over the last few days . |
| 8 | On the other hand , the tender offer by Hillsdown Holdings resulted in a stagging profit as the price at the end of the first day of trading was 33p higher than the striking price of 145p ( minimum 120p ) . |
| 9 | A profit of $7.6m in the second quarter ( 1992 : $39.6m loss ) produced an overall profit for the half year of $3.5m , which compares with a deficit in the same period in 1992 of $104.8m . |
| 10 | When you 're looking at an , a a a an average profit for the group erm you |
| 11 | The plaintiffs alleged the first , sixth and seventh defendants in preparing their business plan had used five specific items of information derived from financial projections contained in an appendix to a business plan ( " the blue book " ) of the plaintiffs namely : ( a ) the average operating profit per Bureau de Change ; ( b ) the average profit of the first year of operation as a percentage of a full years profit ; ( c ) the average costs per Bureau ; ( d ) the average number and/or transactions per Bureau ; ( e ) the average value of each transaction . |
| 12 | The intention being to keep them at Georgia Griffiths house … even though she made no real profit from the deal . |
| 13 | Retained profit for the financial year was £221,387 , compared with £951,027 . |
| 14 | The price which has been paid for the lower rate of tax on income has been the additional National Insurance charge and also the locking up of the profits in excess of the salary of £43,500 as retained profit in the company . |
| 15 | You may have to pay capital gains tax if you make a large profit on the sale of a capital asset , for example : stocks and shares , jewellery , any property that is not your main home and other items of value . |
| 16 | The cost of the call reduces the profit position when S < E and limits the maximum profit to E — C. On the other hand the potential unlimited loss on the short share when S> E is almost exactly offset by the potentially unlimited profit of the purchased call . |
| 17 | The Practice Subscription Scheme , the RIBA Bookshop , the RSUA Insurance Services Scheme and the recently set up magazine , Perspective continue to provide well utilised services to the members and produce a healthy profit for the Society . |
| 18 | The problem is that while some commercial interests made a healthy profit from the '91 World Cup it failed to produce enough RWC cash to underwrite the Catania tournament , let alone the qualifying tournaments for the 1995 World Cup in South Africa . |
| 19 | After several years of sheer hard work and dedicated self-sacrifice , which involved giving up her fine mansion and living in cheap lodgings , she finally turned the bankrupt enterprise around and by 1904 was able to sell her shares in Dillwyn & Co. at a very substantial profit to the German industrial giant , Metallgesellschaft of Frankfurt , which was then striving to create an international monopoly of zinc manufacture . |
| 20 | Even his great friend and business partner in the Second Dominion , Hebbert Nuits-St-Georges , called Peccable by those who knew him well , a merchant who had made substantial profit from the superstitious and the woebegone in the Second Dominion , regularly remarked that the order of Yzordderrex was less stable by the day , and he would soon take his family out of the city , indeed out of the Dominion entirely , and find a new home where he would not have to smell burning bodies when he opened his windows in the morning . |
| 21 | As between the two heavyweights , Reed and Pearson , Reed has been added to at the start of the period ( financed from the sale of Pearson shares ) ; the additional Reed shares were sold off in the autumn of 1991 , thereby realising a tidy profit for the Portfolio . |
| 22 | Both German and Polish farmers made a tidy profit from the deal , and on paper it looked as if the Commission had ‘ Germanised ’ a farm . |
| 23 | In the Middle Ages they would have gone on pilgrimages to the knee-cap of Saint Whoever , to the great profit of the Church . |
| 24 | Border , too , it is rumoured , is nearing the end of his career and could easily survive at great profit in the county scene having also tasted life in England with Essex . |
| 25 | A merger between Chase Manhattan and its New York neighbour , Chemical Bank , could free up more money than the two banks ' combined net profit over the past five years . |
| 26 | [ I ] f the insider is a substantial shareholder , the damages paid by him will , in part , indirectly return to him and he will still be left with a net profit on the transaction … |
| 27 | Sabic announced a SR 1952m ( $521m ) net profit for the first nine months of 1991 , on a turnover of SR 6391m . |
| 28 | Cadmus Communications Inc has turned in third quarter net up 12.6% at $1.2m , on turnover up 6.7% at $50.1m ; net profit for the nine months was up 15.4% at $3.2m , on turnover that rose 5.6% to $146.4m . |
| 29 | California Amplifier Inc has reported fourth quarter net profits up 34% at $840,000 , on turnover up 50.2% at $10.4m ; net profit for the year to February 27 was up 92.9% at $3.1m , on turnover that rose 73.4% to $35.8m . |
| 30 | Cisco Systems Inc saw third quarter net up 99.3% at $46.3m , on turnover up 88.6% at $172.4m ; net profit for the nine months was up 106.9% at $118.2m , on turnover that rose 93.9% to $443.8m . |