Example sentences of "make a [adj] profit [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the plus side we sold and bought Ian Baird twice and overall made a healthy profit of over half a million . |
| 2 | ‘ We 've made a healthy profit on him and that will come in handy because it 's no secret I 'm still looking to buy players to improve our squad . ’ |
| 3 | Until now they have made a tidy profit from selling re-issued pop hits from the fifties , sixties and seventies . |
| 4 | ‘ There 's only one place for money , and that 's a safe place … a place where it can make a healthy profit without being subjected to the fluctuation of bonds and shares and suchlike . |
| 5 | Bernice did n't know where the Doctor got his talent from , but if he ever got tired of fighting ultimate evil , he could make a healthy profit as an intergalactic busker . |
| 6 | We know employees are being blackmailed with their jobs to risk life and limb so employers can make a fat profit at our expense . |
| 7 | Anyone who can provide shore fishermen with fresh and regular supplies of ragworms and other delicacies enjoyed by fish will make a steady profit from the foreshore . |
| 8 | the no profit rule — a conglomerate , when acting as a fiduciary must not make a secret profit from his position without first obtaining the consent of the principal and disclosing the profit ; |
| 9 | Both German and Polish farmers made a tidy profit from the deal , and on paper it looked as if the Commission had ‘ Germanised ’ a farm . |
| 10 | In City terms he could claim some credit , along with Peter Walker , as the father of modern unit trusts , while he made a personal profit of £1 million from the sale of Cannon Insurance , the UK vehicle of the disgraced Bernie Cornfeld . |
| 11 | The problem is that while some commercial interests made a healthy profit from the '91 World Cup it failed to produce enough RWC cash to underwrite the Catania tournament , let alone the qualifying tournaments for the 1995 World Cup in South Africa . |
| 12 | Boursin , best known for its Boursin soft cheese and Boursault brands , made a net profit of £3.4m in 1988 on sales of £30m . |
| 13 | Last year they made a net profit of £17,345,000 , of which 79p in every pound goes to the charity 's overseas programme . |
| 14 | In the nine months to March 31st , it made a net profit of $188m ( up 38% on the same period of the previous year ) on sales of $1.7 billion ( up 40% ) . |
| 15 | In the year to June 1992 , 11-year-old Sun made a net profit of $173m on sales of $1.6 billion — a threefold increase in revenues in only four years . |
| 16 | Although the company made a net profit of $10.5 million in 1987 it took a hard-line response over the strike : out of the 5000 who went out , 2000 workers were estimated to have been sacked . |
| 17 | Division One teams accounted for £46m of the business as they adopted a Premier League or bust approach and clubs from the Third and Fourth Divisions made a net profit of more than £7m on dealings . |
| 18 | Results reported from Oslo yesterday showed the company , 51 per cent-owned by the Norwegian state , made a net profit of 1.76 billion Norwegian kroner , about £160 million , compared with a loss of 498 million kroner in 1991 . |
| 19 | We made a small profit on the event which , in the current climate , must be quite good news . |
| 20 | In the year to the end of November , Sterling Greengate made a pre-tax profit of £1.6 million on sales of £42million . |
| 21 | Autobacs , which made a pre-tax profit of ¥7.3 billion ( $51.7m ) on sales of ¥110.4 billion in the year ended March 31st , has the means to finance further expansion . |
| 22 | Under the guidance of chief executive David Jones , the fashion retailer made a pre-tax profit of £12.3m in the year to January — a strong recovery from its 1990-91 pre-tax loss of £40m and total losses that year of some £220m . |
| 23 | An enterprising parents ' association at one primary school took on the short term lease of a shop in the local High Street in the pre-Christmas period and made a substantial profit by buying in stock from discount warehouses and retailing in competition with other traders . |
| 24 | They made a national profit of £7.2 million , of which more than 90p in every pound goes to cancer research . |
| 25 | Last year , Harland and Wolff made a modest profit of £602,000 . |
| 26 | Britannia Hotels made a gross profit of £11.9 million in 1991 and a net profit after tax of over £200,000 , taking into account the increased payments to the two directors . |
| 27 | Thus , overall , he made a gross profit of 10 ( 1080 + 2 × 400 ) = £18 800 . |
| 28 | Alcoholic beverages were a fact of life when most drinking-water was a health hazard , so Dorchester 's Puritans killed several birds with one stone by taking over the demon drink themselves , to administer it with moderation and make a healthy profit to be dispensed to the needy . |
| 29 | You may have to pay capital gains tax if you make a large profit on the sale of a capital asset , for example : stocks and shares , jewellery , any property that is not your main home and other items of value . |
| 30 | Individual capitalists could serve his cause , even making a personal profit on the way , but they were also selling the rope with which they and their class were going to be hanged . |