Example sentences of "[adv] make a profit " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lois will only make a profit or loss under the second strategy when there are changes in relative prices . |
| 2 | Still there , but not necessarily making a profit . |
| 3 | A retailer only makes a profit if he sells goods — and if customers think products are too expensive , they will go elsewhere . |
| 4 | After all , the retailer only makes a profit on the items he sells : if the prices he charges are too high , the customers will go elsewhere and he wo n't make any profit at all ! |
| 5 | There are no bureaucrats going round counting the jobs that never happened , the jobs that went away or the small firms that have packed up because they could no longer make a profit under the new controls and restrictions on their work force . |
| 6 | For example , if the price of BP October calls with an exercise price of 220p were only 10p then investors could buy the calls and exercise by buying the shares at 220p making a total purchase price of 230p and selling them back to the market for 237p thus making a profit of 7p per share . |
| 7 | He had to invest all his savings in this nursery 3 years ago and still it only just makes a profit . |
| 8 | The ‘ marketable ’ sector produces goods and services which are sold on established markets , generally makes a profit , and can therefore be regarded as self-financing . |
| 9 | Unlike a jet operator , the owner of a piston-powered airliner can offer that motor manufacturer ( and other operations like him ) a relatively low fee to have an aircraft packed-out just awaiting the customer 's whim and still make a profit . |
| 10 | And of course all that is a play-off against you know keeping that franchisee er involved and keeping them feeling that they can still make a profit . |
| 11 | Adrian Longden , NALGO 's district officer , said that although times were hard , the company had still made a profit of more than £1 billion in the last financial year . |
| 12 | A typical example is the sentence ‘ Those who sold quickly made a profit ’ . |
| 13 | This can be said in at least two different ways : a ) Those who sold quickly made a profit b ) Those who sold quickly made a profit |
| 14 | This can be said in at least two different ways : a ) Those who sold quickly made a profit b ) Those who sold quickly made a profit |
| 15 | I ca n't believe you 're telling me the truth because that would mean if everybody worked overtime on that basis , we 'd all still making a profit . |
| 16 | I mean I 've just worked out there 's , there are twenty eight jobs there , of which er we 've we 've only really made a profit on eight . |
| 17 | Anyway , that Richardson sells smack so cheap he does n't even make a profit . ’ |
| 18 | There are farmers who with the existing lack of any political support are looking at different avenues to improve their profits or even make a profit . |
| 19 | In many cases they have gone long periods before they have even made a profit . |
| 20 | Headline is here to make a profit . |
| 21 | The FOURTH stage will be the selling and — realising that the only sensible sale is one on which you actually make a profit — getting paid . |
| 22 | The studio 's young head , Irving Thalberg , was rightly worried that Foolish Wives would never make a profit . |
| 23 | How does it all tie in when you look at the requirements stated in the document to actually make a profit on the provision of health services . |
| 24 | In addition to finding that many Boroughs actually made a profit from council house rents , and thus subsidized ratepayers , they found that the highest transfer from rates to council housing was no less than 443 per cent above average . |
| 25 | certainly made a profit for Intercity out of it with |
| 26 | The country railways , of course , never made a profit ; they could not by their very nature . |
| 27 | But cash from the sale of licensed goods , cosmetics , sunglasses and perfume like C'est La Vie , did not flood in and the company has never made a profit . |
| 28 | Yeah but if we charge twenty P each we 're actually making a profit selling them . |
| 29 | The Netherlands swiftly became the largest gas exporter in the world and despite importing almost all its other fuel , managed to become a net energy exporter and even occasionally to make a profit on the energy account . |
| 30 | John Peel and Clive Selwood launch Dandelion , a label that 's destined never to make a profit . |