Example sentences of "run [prep] [art] pound " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Bank was tipped off by the West Germans shortly before the decision was announced , and evidently decided it would have to follow suit or risk a damaging run on the pound . |
| 2 | However , there were lingering fears yesterday that Nigel Lawson might yet be forced to raise rates even higher if another run on the pound develops because of poor trade figures . |
| 3 | This so called sovereignty amounts to a choice between a continued run on the pound and an interest-rate-induced slump . |
| 4 | In the long-term , this may be more damaging than a short-term run on the pound . |
| 5 | At various times , notably from midsummer 1985 , these threatened the value of sterling and seemed likely to cause an old-fashioned ‘ run on the pound ’ . |
| 6 | Though Sir Richard has controlled public displays of emotion lately , he might suddenly burst into tears on the steps of 10 Downing Street and cause a run on the pound . |
| 7 | If the bonnie banks of Scotland were to open their accounts to the world , there would be a run on the pound and some of the country 's most famous clubs would collapse with embarrassment . |
| 8 | If the total does soar to £250 billion or £260 billion there will be outcry in the City , a further run on the pound and shares would slump . |
| 9 | Nobody is yet convinced that he really would be willing to raise interest rates if there were a prolonged run on the pound sometime this year . |
| 10 | Central to that campaign were the warnings that a Labour win would mean a run on the pound , a sterling crisis , a property slump , HIGHER interest rates and possibly , dare we even speak the word , devaluation . |
| 11 | He blamed remarks ‘ from people who should have known better ’ for sparking the run on the pound . |
| 12 | The crisis has also forced Chancellor Norman Lamont to cut short his holiday as the Bank of England tries to stave off a run on the Pound . |
| 13 | This pay policy , for which there had been no attempt to establish wide political support , bore particularly hard on certain groups of relatively weakly organised workers such as nurses , teachers and hospital workers whose case commanded considerable public sympathy , and when the deflationary measures had checked the run on the pound trade union antagonism to the government remained . |
| 14 | If the Labour Party had announced , in 1964 or 66 , its intention to ‘ oppose capitalism ’ fundamentally and had explained what this was likely to involve in terms of dislocation of international trade and payments ( even Callaghan 's mildly redistributive budget of 1964 was enough to cause a run on the pound ) , and the onus which would have to be placed on the trade unions in running industry , given the likely non-co-operation of many among the managerial strata , it is quite implausible to say they would have been elected to office . |
| 15 | The May Committee 's indictment of an unbalanced budget had further undermined confidence in Britain 's financial stability and accelerated a run on the pound . |
| 16 | Earlier , as shadow chancellor , he had contacted and won assurances of help from the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York if a Labour victory precipitated a run on the pound . |
| 17 | ‘ It was not the teachers and nurses who caused the run on the pound in September or who are selling the pound short in the City today . |