Example sentences of "their [noun sg] to raise [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | CHILDREN at a Darlington school have done their bit to raise money for hungry families in Russia . |
2 | This could follow if the capital goods producing industries faced capacity constraints in their attempt to raise output in the short run . |
3 | Leslie and Linda Skelhorne , of Runcorn , received the letter wishing them well in their bid to raise cash to send Shaun , five , to the Higashi Institute in Boston . |
4 | Cooler , drier weather is forecast for their effort to raise funds for research into the rare disease , neuroblastoma , which killed 14-year-old Vicki last year . |
5 | Not only does it limit their ability to raise capital and power to do business , it also creates a management oligarchy . |
6 | In the event each of the 57 first wave trusts found their borrowing limits — known as " external financing limits " — set in such a way that their ability to raise capital was tightly controlled . |
7 | National Savings were particularly competitive in the 1980's when emphasis was placed on raising government funds from this source , largely because it relieved the need somewhat to borrow from the banking system which created credit and therefore inflationary conditions , and because of the fear that government borrowing in the long-term capital markets would tend to ‘ crowd-out ’ industrial and commercial companies from that market , and impede their ability to raise funds for capital investment and long-term growth . |
8 | Local authorities continued to be threatened with central government imposed limitations on their ability to raise revenue locally , and the personal consequences for individual community charge payers voting for either increases or decreases in expenditure would vary considerably . |
9 | IF US officials go ahead with their threat to raise tariffs , it will almost certainly increase unemployment in Britain . |