Example sentences of "lend to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | One of Titian 's most celebrated portraits , the ‘ Portrait of a Young Man ’ from the collection of the Earl of Halifax and the Trustees of the Halifax Collection has been lent to the Gallery for at least two years . |
2 | Some of the nicer touches are lent to the machine by the inclusion of a pretty hairy caching IDE hard disk controller , which , in the review machine , is complete with 4MB of RAM to cache the IDE hard drive . |
3 | Thus if the Ming Vase is lent to the taxpayer repayable on demand ( so to say ) then if the taxpayer does in fact have the use for the entire year then the type of rental likely to be charged on such a letting in the market ( duly discounted because the trustees can call back the vase on demand ) is likely to comprise the benefit under s740 . |
4 | When the state took over recruitment under the Military Service Acts , the party continued to be involved : many agents were transferred to the army , where they continued to do the same job , and many party offices were lent to the government as recruitment centres . |
5 | The savings deposited in the NSB are called ‘ national savings ’ and are lent to the government . |
6 | If the trust has £50,000 of income in year 1 and £25,000 in year 2 and £10,000 in year 3 and in year 1 £80,000 is lent to the settlor by the trust ( a capital sum includes an amount paid by way of loan — see below ) then in year 1 the settlor would be taxed on £50,000 , in year 2 on £25,000 and in year 3 on £5,000 . |
7 | In December 1316 , Bertrand de Goth , vicomte of Lomagne and Auvillars , acting as Clement V 's executor , returned to Margaret of Béarn and the seven-year-old Gaston II a ‘ certain little knife ’ ( cultellum ) , which Gaston I of Foix had lent to the pope . |
8 | A society has no ‘ owners ’ but has ‘ members ’ who lend to the society by buying shares which are in effect deposits . |
9 | In a statement issued in Bonn , he stressed ‘ the importance that Western countries lend to the continuation of the reform process that President Yeltsin has represented for the past one and a half years ’ . |
10 | They borrow from the banks for as little as a few hours ' notice of recall by the banks ( money at call ) , and lend to the government , local authorities and firms for typically three months ( bills of exchange ) . |
11 | The most liquid of the market loans are money at call and short notice lent to the discount houses . |
12 | Dealers such as Jean Gismondi of Paris were unstinting in their praise of the chic it lent to the event . |
13 | Any photographs lent to the Society will be returned in due course . |
14 | Those who lent to the turnpike trusts were even more localised than those who bought canal stock . |
15 | A debenture is a document issued by a company in exchange for money lent to the company . |
16 | In this case it may lend to the discount houses ; then the Bank 's balance sheet will show an increase in advances ( an asset ) and in bankers ' deposits ( a liability ) . |
17 | First , the Bank can lend to the discount houses as a method of providing further assistance if it has not provided adequate assistance earlier in the day . |
18 | In such circumstances ( known as ‘ the last resort ’ ) the Bank of England will always step in and lend to the discount houses , or purchase bills of exchange from them before the bills have reached maturity . |
19 | This too was the rate at which the Bank of England would lend to the discount houses in the last resort . |
20 | A return for loss of use of the money is still required and if no return were made then buyers would not lend to the government and would lend elsewhere , for example . |
21 | The down-side is that the critic 's representation of the text has none of the authority that objectivity would lend to the analysis . |
22 | They do not know where the money is ‘ invested ’ , whether in British enterprises or overseas , in speculation on property or ‘ art treasures ’ , or in lending to the government to finance unemployment . |
23 | Relation ( 2 ) represents lending to the government , which could be transformed by a system of compulsory subscription of funds to a national investment bank , which would provide funds on a planned basis for both public projects and commodity-producing enterprises ( 3 and 4 ) . |
24 | Lending to the government is more or less risk-free ( in stable countries ) and there is no reason why investors , or banks , should seek out risks . |
25 | In practice the risk of default of non repayment is nil so far as lending to the government is concerned . |
26 | Success in the courts for Shchukin would dissuade Russian museums from lending to the West again . |
27 | The proposal reflects the fact that the business of the world 's biggest banks is shifting from lending to the trading of securities , securitised loans , foreign exchange and derivative financial products such as swaps and options . |
28 | The Swedish Rijksbank raised its marginal intervention rate for lending to the banking system from 16 to 24 per cent on Sept. 8 and to 75 per cent the following day , when it also arranged a currency loan of ECU16,000 million to support the krona . |
29 | Lending to the discount houses takes three principal forms . |
30 | However , Bank Rate remained as the " last resort " rate for lending to the discount houses and , furthermore , continued to have a high political profile . |