Example sentences of "profit [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course you are still bound to make ends meet , but you no longer have to make all your decisions in terms of money profit as the first requirement . |
| 2 | To see profit as the prime motivation to LMS would be to detract from the sense of involvement and success that support staff may potentially receive from its effective management . |
| 3 | Proving that a contravention has occurred , even if only on the balance of probabilities , will not be easy , nor will demonstrating that an alleged miscreant has made a profit as a result of his contravention . |
| 4 | Although Mensch 's theory is in the same tradition as Schumpeter 's , the mechanism that triggers the clustering of innovations is industry 's common experience of low rates of profit as the profitability of the old family of technology that fuelled the last boom is exhausted . |
| 5 | For profit-orientated organizations accounting reports emphasize the measurement of profit as an indication of the success of the organization . |
| 6 | These are profit share , i.e. profit income as a proportion of the total income of an enterprise and profit return , i.e. profit as a proportion of the capital invested in the enterprise . |
| 7 | Bernice did n't know where the Doctor got his talent from , but if he ever got tired of fighting ultimate evil , he could make a healthy profit as an intergalactic busker . |
| 8 | So y I 've got to weigh up whether I 'm actually going to make a profit over four years or whether it 's going to be , but I 'm not doing it for that it 's not so much making a profit as the fact that I can secure the loan for four years and know that I have n't got any extra to , to find , and when you 've retired , if you 've got say seven years on your mortgage and you 're thinking well if mortgage rates go up erm I could get stuffed you know if they doubled again then you could actually fix on that assumption . |
| 9 | We can compare its performance , for example , by expressing profit as a percentage of capital employed , which for 1990/91 was 1.5 per cent . |
| 10 | Whether to use post-tax profit , pre-tax profit or trading profit as the starting profit figure . |
| 11 | The profit diagram of the ‘ short ’ share investment reveals the exact opposite relationship between price and profit as the long share investment . |
| 12 | On the other hand , the tender offer by Hillsdown Holdings resulted in a stagging profit as the price at the end of the first day of trading was 33p higher than the striking price of 145p ( minimum 120p ) . |
| 13 | In particular , to include in their objectives improvements in customer service alongside profit as performance indicators . |
| 14 | If instead of paid work , you are thinking of becoming self-employed or setting up a business , you will not only have the start-up costs but , as you are probably well aware , very few new enterprises make a profit during the first two or three years . |
| 15 | Alpha Microsystems Inc is anticipating a mild comeback figuring it 'll have a profit between $190,000 and $250,000 for the third quarter ended November 28 on revenues between $10.5m and $11m . |
| 16 | A total of 70 million Norwegian kroner ( approximately £6.5 million ) will have been invested in PROFIT between 1990 and 1994 , and NOK110 million ( approx. £10 million ) in RUTH between 1992 and 1995 . |
| 17 | The couple had taken over the shop six years previously and had achieved a healthy profit through hard work . |
| 18 | Psychology is the key to making profit through people |
| 19 | Employees can influence profit through productivity and customer-orientation , but have no control over idiot executives who invest in crazy schemes and could n't even market a doughnut . |
| 20 | A partner who does make a profit through such competition may be required to forfeit such profit and pay the profit over to the partnership . |
| 21 | While the fashion lasts , these are considerable : figures of £200,000 to £300,000 in profit for one well-organised party are being bandied about , and do not seem to be greatly exaggerated . |
| 22 | Regulation should not attempt to suppress the phenomenon altogether , but ensure , with appropriate penalties for failure , that acid house parties — and whatever succeeds them — cause minimal disturbance to the non-dancing majority , and that they do not become occasions of profit for professional criminals . |
| 23 | But any premature sale could thwart Dallhold 's hopes of attracting an outside party to purchase both the 7 per cent stake and a big slice of Dallhold 's 58 per cent BIG holding , releasing a profit for Bell Resources and a much-needed cash injection for Dallhold . |
| 24 | Roddick 's determination to use private profit for public good has now reached some of the remotest parts of the world . |
| 25 | The US operating margin was narrowly the highest , but the rise of over half in interest charges limited the rise in pre-tax profit for the whole group to 10 per cent , at £427million . |
| 26 | Today Chatset , an independent consultancy , reckons Lloyd 's will post a meagre profit for 1988 ( see the chart overleaf ) and a loss of more than £850m for 1989 , the first loss since 1967 . |
| 27 | Profit for the year was 8.04 per cent and Walton duly donned a grass skirt and wiggled away . |
| 28 | Later this month , it will announce an operating profit for the first quarter of 1992 , the second quarter running in which it has been profitable : the last quarter of 1991 produced a small profit of $80 million , although the year as a whole showed a $1.4 billion loss on turnover of $8.6 billion . |
| 29 | New Central Witswatersrand : P-t profit for 18 months R8.08m ( R2.62m for preceding year ) including R4.27m ( nil ) on realisation of investments . |
| 30 | Sabic announced a SR 1952m ( $521m ) net profit for the first nine months of 1991 , on a turnover of SR 6391m . |