Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [unc] money " in BNC.
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| 1 | Phillips and Drew emphasized that there was no finance director to look after investors ' money , and added that the return being offered was much too low for such a high-risk project . |
| 2 | Unless First Fidelity beats that ( few American banks do ) , the investment will prove a waste of shareholders ' money . |
| 3 | If an MNP holds or receives clients ' money , all solicitor and RFL principals must comply with the rules as to the keeping of clients ' money in client accounts , keeping records of transactions , and deliver an annual accountant 's report . |
| 4 | Every firm of solicitors is subject to detailed professional regulation in relation to its accounting practices , with particular reference to its handling of clients ' money . |
| 5 | Subsection 2(f) specifically empowers regulations to be made which authorise the retention by firms " of so much of clients ' money as represents interest " . |
| 6 | Upwards of £12m of tax-payers ' money has been invested in these new forests and at present , in Caithness , forestry has provided only three full-time jobs for local people ; at the cost of the greatest act of environmental vandalism perpetrated in Scotland this century . |
| 7 | More than 10 million of licence-payers ' money has been sunk into what some saw as a ‘ last-ditch ’ attempt by the Beeb to compete with ITV in the ratings war . |
| 8 | November 1 : Investment and Pensions Advisory Service — which received secret payments from Barlow Clowes having channelled £65million of investors ' money into the business — wound up by the High Court . |
| 9 | Barlow Clowes collapsed in June 1988 putting at risk £190 million of investors ' money . |
| 10 | In February 1990 , a firm called Garston Amhurst , a tied agent of Target , the life company sold by TSB to Equity & Law in January at a substantial loss , was shut down by the Securities and Investments Board after £2 million of investors ' money went missing . |
| 11 | The subjects of the investigation , the Alexander Howden and PCW frauds , together involved more than $100 million of investors ' money . |
| 12 | Besides , it would be a criminal waste of taxpayers ' money if I did nothing . |
| 13 | UNIVERSITY administrators who wasted £11.3 million of taxpayers ' money by re-employing more than 200 redundant academics given ‘ golden goodbyes ’ averaging £80,000 each are to be summoned by the Commons public accounts committee to explain their mistakes . |
| 14 | Today the Government , of course , still denies legal responsibility — presumably to frighten off any other claimants — but will dispense £150 million of taxpayers ' money to com pensate investors of both the Barlow Clowes UK fund and the Gibraltar based international fund ( which is n't covered by the Department of Trade 's writ and which offered rates of interest on allegedly gilt-edged stock which were not possible with out tax avoidance ) . |
| 15 | Labour and the Liberal Democrats believe that spending a lot more of taxpayers ' money on education ( Labour £600 million , the Liberal Democrats £4.6 billion ) and denying parents a say over their children 's education , will somehow improve things . |
| 16 | Labour is scornful of the effort and opposes the use of taxpayers ' money to pursue absent voters . |
| 17 | But government is indirectly involved as the provider of taxpayers ' money ; and through its duty to set standards for publicly and privately provided care . |
| 18 | Two questions you will constantly be asked are : What can be done with the old wreck ? and What will it cost and wo n't it be a waste of taxpayers ' money ? |
| 19 | Otherwise in some parts of the country enterprising local authorities , having a high standard of efficiency , would collect more than their fair share of taxpayers ' money from the Exchequer to the detriment of other taxpayers in the less enterprising areas of the country . |
| 20 | Now the object of a handful of inquiries into influence-peddling and the mismanagement of taxpayers ' money , the EPA has at least been able to claim that its science is pure . |
| 21 | He added : ‘ As a result of the enormous loss of taxpayers ' money involved , Michael Heseltine and the chairman of British Coal should certainly resign . ’ |
| 22 | The charge came after the peer was asked about the £4,700 of taxpayers ' money put towards Mr Lamont 's legal bill to evict a sex therapist from his flat . |
| 23 | So much so , that the Commission continues its backing of the HDMAC analogue transmission standard for HDTV , regardless of its being overtaken by more advanced digital technology and despite broadcasters and telecommunications trade associations lobbying against it , and a plethora of industry pundits accusing the EC of wasting millions of pounds of taxpayers ' money . |
| 24 | Some six million pounds of taxpayers ' money , it is thought , was syphoned to the Provisional IRA through compensation claims for bombed buildings prior to 1976 . |
| 25 | Given its rather élitist duties , it is not surprising to note that the PSBC would be funded out of taxpayers ' money and rents paid by ITV contractors and not by the ( few ) consumers of its products . |
| 26 | LABOUR backbenchers yesterday called for two Cabinet ministers to explain how they allegedly spent £6,000 of taxpayers ' money on three urgent flights home from France , or repay the money . |
| 27 | He said the flights amounted to £6,000 of taxpayers ' money : ‘ It 's time they paid the money back . ’ |
| 28 | Mr Maclean said the use of £2.3 million of taxpayers ' money in buying Orford Ness seemed a lot , but he was sure that future historians would regard it as money well spent . |
| 29 | It 's a waste of taxpayers ' money . |
| 30 | In theory , the scheme is meant to help pupils who would otherwise be unable to do so to benefit from education at an independent school , but Janet Finch argues that past experience of the direct grant system ‘ would lead one to suppose that many beneficiaries of such a scheme will be middle-class children ’ .24 In 1986–7 about 24,500 pupils attended independent schools under the Assisted Places Scheme in England alone , and this transferred £43 million of taxpayers ' money to independent schools . |