Example sentences of "desire to minimise the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The vendors and management will be on the same side in their desire to minimise the Revenue 's slice of the deal and , though the doctrine in Ramsay and Furniss v Dawson [ 1984 ] AC 474 may now preclude the insertion into the transaction of " last-minute " artificial tax-avoidance steps , there is still room for adopting a tax-minimising strategy , as this too can be highly relevant to the price each side is willing to accept .
2 Finally there is the desire to minimise the risk that an accused will be convicted on the strength of an untrue extra-judicial confession , to which the law gives effect by refusing to admit confessions in evidence except upon proof that they are ‘ voluntary . ’
3 ‘ the desire to minimise the risk that an accused will be convicted on the strength of an untrue extra-judicial confession , to which the law gives effect by refusing to admit confessions in evidence except upon proof that they are ‘ voluntary . ’
4 This may conflict with the vendor 's desire to minimise the amount of gain realised on the disposal of such assets to Newco , especially if the vendor is a company which has been bought and sold with no realisation of the underlying assets , which will therefore have a low historical cost .
5 Firm I 's pessimism may be more readily justified if the competition between the firms is so intense that Firm II's choice of action is solely motivated by the desire to minimise the profits made by Firm I. This supposition is obviously too extreme to be realistic , but its relaxation involves further problems into which we shall not enter here .
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