Example sentences of "of a [noun pl] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Existing literature on the subject is relatively small , and where a historical perspective is adopted , it is constrained by reliance on an overly narrow range of sources , and avoidance of a grass-roots perspective . |
| 32 | But within a minute , any hopes of a Spurs recovery were ended , when the outstanding Roy Keane scored Forest 's second , thus securing their victory . |
| 33 | Only days later news of a rights issue by British Airways was leaked to many newspapers . |
| 34 | Shareholders will be asked to renew the authority of the Directors to allot and issue the Ordinary Share capital in the Company and to renew , until the Annual General Meeting in 1994 , the authority not to apply the strict statutory pre-emption provisions in the events of a Rights Issue or in any other issue up to an aggregate of 5 per cent of the issued Ordinary Share Capital as at 31 December 1992 . |
| 35 | Given the risk associated with the possibility that the market price may fall below the subscription price the timing of a rights issue is extremely important . |
| 36 | Some companies incur unnecessary underwriting costs , presumably because of a lack of appreciation of the mechanics of a rights issue … . |
| 37 | Financing the bid by means of a rights issue or cash underwritten alternative has the advantage of increasing the equity base of the offeror and improving gearing . |
| 38 | It is usually closed after a limited period , whereas the underwriting of a rights issue , especially where the rights issue is conditional on the success of the offer ( because the outcome of the offer is not guaranteed ) , may result in a longer underwriting commitment period and consequently higher underwriting costs . |
| 39 | They will also be asked to subscribe for additional Zeneca shares by way of a rights issue to raise £1.3 billion . |
| 40 | By eschewing the obvious solution of a differential dividend payment , the group has had to fall back on the option of endowing the chemicals company with additional cash by way of a rights issue from Zeneca . |
| 41 | ICI fell 42p to 1076p ahead of Thursday 's figures , accompanied by rumours of a rights issue . |
| 42 | Therefore the new information contained in the price of a futures contract , over and above that contained in the current spot price , is the value of the cash flows from owning the index between now and time T ( Carlton , 1984 ) . |
| 43 | This is illustrated by the way in which the initial margin payments do not flow from the buyer to the seller of a futures contract . |
| 44 | Since at delivery ( time T ) the price of a futures contract ( F T ) must equal the spot price ( S T ) , this suggests a relationship between the current ( time t ) futures price ( F t ) and the spot price at delivery ( S T ) . |
| 45 | 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 . |
| 46 | The use of limit pricing can lead to considerable differences between the settlement price of a futures contract and the underlying equilibrium price . |
| 47 | Strategy 1 involves the purchase of a futures contract . |
| 48 | Strategy 2 involves the purchase of a futures contract and the investment of a sum of money equal to the value of the cash index purchased under strategy 1 ( i.e. P s ) at the money market rate of interest . |
| 49 | The creation of a futures market will attract investors to trade the future who did not already trade the spot ( Cox , 1976 ) . |
| 50 | The result is the same as for Cox , that is , that the introduction of a futures market increases the amount of information reflected in the spot price . |
| 51 | A laboratory study of Californian students by Forsythe , Palfrey and Plott ( 1984 ) found that the introduction of a futures market increased the speed with which information was reflected in the spot price . |
| 52 | For the enthusiast , making a copy of a games program is more fun than playing the game itself . |
| 53 | When one of the most energetic spokesmen for applied science in nineteenth-century Britain , Lyon Playfair , addressed the members of a mechanics institute in 1853 , he unashamedly declared that ‘ science is a religion and its philosophers are the priests of nature . ’ |
| 54 | It 's a as I say , it 's all part of a times table . |
| 55 | Barclays ' support of the National Trust continues to include a secondment of a Donations Administration Manager based at the Trust 's head office and the annual 48-page full-colour booklet Information for Visitors with Disabilities , which the bank is sponsoring for the sixth year running in 1991 . |
| 56 | The lexicon that has been developed is based on the vocabulary of a learners dictionary ( the OALDCE ) and supplemented by words from the LOB corpus . |
| 57 | His pastry has the makings of a vrai maître . |
| 58 | The company , which is one of the leading manufacturers of timber pallets in the UK , is thought to be planning the acquisition of a components manufacturer for about £700,000 . |
| 59 | Can the Prime Minister say also whether he has encouraged discussion of the establishment in the new democracies of a payments union similar to that which played such an important part in western Europe 's recovery after the second world war ? |
| 60 | Thus in the film industry it is inefficient to aim to equate private marginal cost and private marginal benefit , the efficient outcome in the absence of a meals tax . |