Example sentences of "[prep] pound " in BNC.
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| 1 | How about pound ? |
| 2 | Respite for pound in sales figures |
| 3 | In 1960 the Club had its best financial year ( pound for pound ) since 1931 , unquestionably helped by the installation of ‘ fruit machines ’ which were instantly popular with a section of members and a good source of income . |
| 4 | There 's noticeably less equipment hanging from a scrambler , but pound for pound there will be more fleecy material visible . |
| 5 | Research shows that lone parents belong to lower income groups which have been hard hit , kept in the poverty trap by changes in benefits and the income support system , which reduces support pound for pound , without compensation for childcare , whenever the woman begins to earn . |
| 6 | The steel bow was replaced by the composite bow which is more effective , more powerful pound for pound , and lighter to carry . |
| 7 | Brighter hopes for Pound |
| 8 | Terry Norris , the WBC superweight champion , scored an easy third-round stoppage of ‘ Irish ’ Pat Lawlor — described by one sportswriter as ‘ pound for pound , one of worst fighters in the world ’ . |
| 9 | The funding money had to be matched pound for pound by other backers ; the people who believed in the paper had to put up £5,000 of their own money between them ; and the paper had to have a controlling group to protect it from an outside takeover which might change the political line . |
| 10 | Accompanied by wonderful press release describing it as ‘ pound for pound the best value art book … high quality art publishing for just over 8p per page ’ . |
| 11 | EVERY Christmas , Denmans Electrical , a Midlands-based firm with several branches , has a charity fund raising day and the staff 's efforts are matched pound for pound by the company . |
| 12 | Two months before his departure he wrote to twelve or fifteen poets , requesting their public support for Pound and asking them to provide private testimonials in the event that he should be tried and sentenced for his crime : there was , at this stage , a strong possibility that Pound would be condemned to death . |
| 13 | And , in concert with other friends , he worked patiently but assiduously for Pound 's eventual release . |
| 14 | Now when interest charges fall , the person who is buying the house benefits from the reduction in interest charges , but the person who is renting a house in local authority and then in this case nobody , nobody else in Harlow to rent it from , is faced with , not with a decreased monthly rental , but with an ever increasing one because as more and more Council houses are sold the cost of maintaining that there , the superstructure of the town , the cost of maintaining Council houses goes on increasing and so the burden is laid on the tenants and the tenant can find , will find himself that pound for pound increasing his rent while the house owner is decreasing his mortgage charges and at the end of the day the tenant is paying increased rent , increased rate and with nothing to show for it , erm , I 've always been in favour of a sale , of , of property er owner occupiers , but not at the expense of the people who can not afford to be owner occupiers , ah , to my mind , the present housing system is designed to maintain the existing class structure because even with the large discounts that one gets and nobody 's ever yet convinced me that why you should get a discount because you buy a Council house , but if you buy one privately owned you ca n't get a discount and it , there 's , this , this is so utter nonsense , but it is throwing a much heavier burden every time a house is sold on the remaining houses which are for rent , and so you that , although the idea is to make it a classless this society with more and more people owning their own properties the mo the mere fact that the majority of people in the town can not afford to buy even the reduced priced Council house , is an example that the , the system , the class system a division by income still exists . |
| 15 | Apart from a disregard of £5 , a partner 's earnings are deducted pound for pound from a claimant 's income support entitlement . |
| 16 | The Essex News to Mrs today if you want to order it , it 's ten copies for pound and Home and County , as you well know , has gone up to ten pounds twenty pence . |
| 17 | It calls on authorities to match , pound for pound , parental contributions . |
| 18 | Pound for pound it 's the same . |
| 19 | Of course , although the publicity itself may be free , there are obvious costs in setting up a publicity programme , but , pound for pound , these are considerably lower than for advertising , for example . |
| 20 | the appeal court dismissed the argument that the income should be deducted pound for pound from the agreed dependency . |
| 21 | ‘ The three year cost of a new system that can handle the load effectively is often cheaper , pound for pound , than the three year cost of supporting an old , slow , ineffective machine , ’ MacCormick said . |
| 22 | A closure dowry based on a ratio of £X million for every 100 jobs lost would enable BCE to take control on day one , working in partnership with local authorities and matching pound for pound any EC contribution . |
| 23 | ‘ Our back row was quite superb and pound for pound we 've some tremendous players . |
| 24 | ‘ Our back row was quite superb and pound for pound we 've some tremendous players . |
| 25 | Under an indemnity , a person is liable on a pound for pound basis for any loss , whether or not the purchase price would actually have been reduced if that liability had been discovered prior to contract . |
| 26 | Good news has also come from the government who have recently announced that they will match pound for pound any money raised by the charity and donated to a hospice . |
| 27 | and if they were concerned about the children , the children would get the benefit , the Income Support is removed pound for pound , |
| 28 | In terms of hard cash , we 've applied to the Community Council of Great Britain , and their Rural Action Project , and they 've promised us two thousand pounds as an actual funding , so as and when funding becomes available from councils or from private sector or from our own efforts , they match that pound for pound as we go along . |
| 29 | All Guinness employees are encouraged to participate in charitable projects and the company matches , pound for pound , contributions made by employees to nominated charities through the payroll giving scheme and other fundraising efforts in the UK . |
| 30 | As the loan is repaid from property in the trust Mr X 's deposit , pound for pound , is released to Mr X. Mr X will have retained an interest in the income in the trust because he benefits when the deposit , pound for pound , is released . |