Example sentences of "a [noun pl] [noun] be [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kipnis and Tsang ( 1984a ) argued that the usual relationship between spot and futures prices during the life of a futures contract is as shown in Fig. 7.3 . |
| 2 | ( 2 ) The principal advantage of a cash underwritten alternative over a rights issue is that the new shares in the bidder are allotted to the target 's shareholders , in which case merger relief and , possibly , merger accounting may be available ( see para 23.1 below ) . |
| 3 | The advantage of a Loans Fund is that it facilitates the authority 's management of debt . |
| 4 | The reason why many ethologists would now prefer to explain ritualization as an arms race is that they have increasingly come to realize that selfish competition among individuals is the rule in the animal world . |
| 5 | A further incentive for a share sale rather than an assets sale is that , if the target company has recently been acquired , the shares will have a much higher base cost than the historical cost of the assets and the business . |