Example sentences of "a [noun pl] issue " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has already undertaken to sell off £100m worth of businesses and to raise £150m through a rights issue or by attracting a suitor . |
| 2 | Under the refinancing envisaged by Eurotunnel , private investors will be asked to raise up to £350m through a rights issue in return for the project 's banks agreeing to provide a further £1bn in loans . |
| 3 | The first — a rights issue — looks unrealistic . |
| 4 | They have also ruled out any possibility of supporting a rights issue . |
| 5 | This compares with a rights issue price of 20p and a price of 102p last year when Lowndes took over Harris Queensway for £450m . |
| 6 | MEDIRACE is raising £81.8million through a rights issue to cover most of the cost of the Evans Healthcare acquisition , which will propel it into a much bigger league . |
| 7 | On January 29th Tesco launched a rights issue to help finance an investment programme averaging £900m a year for the next three years . |
| 8 | Even after the £383m the bank got from selling a 14.9% stake in itself to the Hongkong Bank and the £1.1 billion it raised from a rights issue and the sale of its Scottish and Irish banks , Midland still struggles to keep its third-world debt provisions up to the level of its rivals . |
| 9 | Twelve months ago , when AMEC raised £111m via a rights issue at 200p per share , many forecasters expected 1991 to be a year of recovery for the construction industry . |
| 10 | If we paid cash , we might have had to go to shareholders for a rights issue . ’ |
| 11 | There is no surplus from which to pay a dividend , but when directors asked for £162m of new capital through a rights issue at this time last year , shareholders were promised an unchanged final 7.64p , so they should receive it on July 1 . |
| 12 | Cash of nearly £7m was generated internally and a rights issue raised £3.2m last June . |
| 13 | to the allotment of equity securities in connection with a rights issue in favour of the holders of ordinary shares where the equity securities respectively attributable to the interests of the ordinary shareholders are proportionate ( as nearly as may be ) to the respective numbers of ordinary shares held or deemed to be held by them , subject only to such exclusions or other arrangements as the Directors may deem necessary or expedient to deal with fractional entitlements , legal or practical problems arising in any overseas territory or by virtue of shares being represented by depositary receipts , the requirements of any regulatory body or stock exchange , or any other matter ; and |
| 14 | Like last year , it also seeks a disapplication of the pre-VXKVK rights on a rights issue so as to allow the Directors , when making a rights issue , to exclude or make such other arrangements as may be appropriate to resolve legal or practical problems which might for example arise with overseas shareholders . |
| 15 | Like last year , it also seeks a disapplication of the pre-VXKVK rights on a rights issue so as to allow the Directors , when making a rights issue , to exclude or make such other arrangements as may be appropriate to resolve legal or practical problems which might for example arise with overseas shareholders . |
| 16 | It is proposed to extend the circumstances in which the price and number of shares under the British Gas Sharesave Scheme may be adjusted to include an ‘ open offer ’ ( an offer to shareholders similar to a rights issue ) or any other variation of share capital which the Inland Revenue accepts as sufficient ground for such an adjustment and at the same time to allow for adjustments to reflect changes in the class of shares , or the rights attaching to shares , under option . |
| 17 | The bid had to be hostile , and Tiphook , since it needed a rights issue to pay for its part of the deal , had to become a joint-bidder . |
| 18 | The group raised a thumping £560m through a rights issue last year and has shed more than 84,000 jobs worldwide in an effort to reduce its overheads . |
| 19 | To complete the turnaround at the Glasgow-based group , analysts are expecting a call on investors with a rights issue . |
| 20 | The offer was of six new Eagle shares for each Samuelson share or a cash alternative and a rights issue to Eagle shareholders . |
| 21 | Ernst & Young has offered to pay compensation to Sound Diffusion investors who took up shares in a rights issue seven months before the electrical equipment company collapsed . |
| 22 | In 1987 the bank raised £700m in a rights issue , only to use it to make provisions of £1.02bn against sovereign debt , a move that pushed the Midland into its first ever loss . |
| 23 | The legislation embodies numerous illogicalities and anomalies , including the double capital tax charge on gifts made within seven years before death , the taxation of some settlements as if no interest in possession exist when , in fact , they do , and the effect of the ‘ pooling ’ rules for shares etc , which can result in a chargeable gain which greatly exceeds the actual gain on a disposal of a recently acquired holding , eg on a rights issue . |
| 24 | ‘ There will not be a rights issue , ’ said a spokesman , ‘ because we generate a lot of cash ’ . |
| 25 | Reporting a daunting $406m loss for 1992 ( see below ) , Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA is looking to bolster its balance sheet with a rights issue and bond offer to raise $560m . |
| 26 | It proposes to recapitalise the insurer by raising NKr2.8 billion through a rights issue and another NKr1.5 billion or so from the bond market . |
| 27 | That was good enough for BA to launch a rights issue to raise £442m to pay for its grand ambition : to become the first and biggest global airline . |
| 28 | Only days later news of a rights issue by British Airways was leaked to many newspapers . |
| 29 | The company explains its performance by saying that 1989 was the first year that the US contributed the majority of its sales , 61% of the total , and that it was hit that year by a 35% fall in the UK because it was too reliant on one customer ; it raised £1.5m in a rights issue . |
| 30 | Institutional investors who include Schroders , Prudential and Phillips & Drew Fund Management are believed to be opposed to a rights issue . |