Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [adj] [noun pl] [prep] interest " in BNC.
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| 1 | This allows borrowers more scope to time issues so as to take advantage of temporarily favourable patterns of interest rates such as would permit profitable swaps . |
| 2 | Because a decline in the value of the pound against that of other currencies would aggravate the condition , the Government is constrained to try to maintain that value ; and to do so by the inducement of very high rates of interest . |
| 3 | Not that he was suddenly drawn into entirely new areas of interest : it was more a matter of being drawn back , with a new urgency , into old ones . |
| 4 | WITH THIS week 's hike in interest rates , homebuyers should be more careful than ever about advertisements for mortgages with seemingly low rates of interest . |
| 5 | Competing accountabilities , it is argued , lead to more complex conflicts of interest and value trade-offs for managers in the public sector . |
| 6 | The IIF provides reports and data on fifty borrowing countries to its member institutions as well as studies on more general issues of interest to the international financial community . |
| 7 | Even under ‘ socialism ’ there will be scope for quite genuine conflicts of interest between regions , localities and enterprises . |
| 8 | The counter argument is that investors ought to have known that there was a risk involved , particularly those who put their funds in the Gibraltar fund at suspiciously high rates of interest in order to avoid UK taxation . |
| 9 | Nigel Lawson , the longest-serving Chancellor of the Exchequer in the post-1979 Conservative government , is quoted as saying : ‘ Too high a PSBR requires either that the government borrow heavily from the banks-which adds directly to the money supply , or failing this , that it borrows from individuals and institutions , but at ever increasing rates of interest , which place an unacceptable squeeze on the private sector ’ ( in Cairncross and Keeley 1981 , p. 96 ) . |
| 10 | Banks , besides their main concern with commercial and industrial lending , made some overdraft loans at relatively low rates of interest to ( relatively affluent and thus secure ) private customers . |
| 11 | These organisations function as community banks where local residents save regularly and can access credit at very low rates of interest . |
| 12 | Banks were able to acquire large time deposits with very low service costs and they were able to do so at very keen rates of interest since these were often negotiated for each individual deposit . |
| 13 | Although bonuses on a life policy can not be realised until the termination of the policy , life companies will normally lend money to clients against the security of those bonuses , quickly and at very competitive rates of interest . |
| 14 | On 6 December , in my first speech for several years from the back benches of the House of Commons , I said : ‘ Our entry into the ERM was welcomed by both sides of the House and by most of the press , but it is now clear that the bands within which the pound is allowed to float are sustained only by damagingly high rates of interest in Britain . ’ |
| 15 | The Centre Party campaigned mainly on economic issues , criticizing the government for having caused the current recession , the worst since 1945 , with voters affected in particular by unprecedentedly high levels of interest rates and of unemployment ( 7 per cent in 1990 ) . |
| 16 | The chronic trade deficits have resulted in the USA becoming the major debtor country in the sense that other countries ' savings have flowed to the USA , attracted by relatively high rates of interest and the apparent security of investment in the world 's most powerful economy . |