Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] profit " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was the only division to report lower profits too . |
| 2 | In the same period last year , the company made interim profits of £17.2 million . |
| 3 | A situation like this could have been resolved by either the workers in the marketed sector accepting lower wages , or the employers accepting lower profits or a combination of the two . |
| 4 | Lep Group , the transport business which is attracting increasing US investment , fell 16p to 149p after it announced interim profits of £9.5m against £5m . |
| 5 | But that should be offset by recovery from the bathroom and heating companies which made little-changed profits of £42.6m last year . |
| 6 | Rank Organisation announced that profit before tax fell from £250.5m to £230.1m in the year to 31 October . |
| 7 | Glaxo announced that profit before tax rose by 11% to £1.29bn in the year to 30 June . |
| 8 | Albert Fisher announced that profit before tax fell from £89m to £52.1m in the year to 31 August . |
| 9 | He 'd prefer to see low profits today and high quality tomorrow rather than high profits today and low quality tomorrow . |
| 10 | These elite customers can — and do — make fabulous profits by buying goods from ‘ closed ’ shops and selling to ‘ commercial shops ’ or even directly to the shadow economy , where the non-privileged are forced to shop because they ca n't find the goods they want in the ordinary shops . |
| 11 | 1991 has been a year of change , adapting ourselves to what our customers want from us , and , of course how we make strong profit from that . |
| 12 | When that has been paid off , the band will start to see some profit from their records . |
| 13 | Last year IDG reported $431m in sales net of commissions to its ad-space salesmen , and made after-tax profits of $25m . |
| 14 | Er well y yes , they 'll be running at a loss right through until we eventually fix the prices for the whole programme and er hopefully the if they do it very efficiently we might make some profit . |
| 15 | The final withdrawal without major disaster enabled them to preserve some profit . |
| 16 | advertising of particular products which bring high profits |
| 17 | Surely here , if anywhere , was the time and place to sacrifice some profit . |
| 18 | The monopolist in our example is in the fortunate position of being able to set any price between £3.81 and £9.20 and still make some profit . |
| 19 | If you 're never going to read those twenty-year-old management books collecting dust on your office shelf make some profit ( it 's always best to start in a small way ) by selling them to a secondhand bookshop . |
| 20 | BOC reported that profit before tax rose by 10% to £251m in the nine months to 30 June . |
| 21 | Smiths Industries reported that profit before tax fell by 7% to £102.2m in the year to 1 August . |
| 22 | Cookson Group reported interim profit before tax of £34m ( v £17m ) . |
| 23 | This may have played some role in the big decline in the profitability of Japanese industry over the same period as Japanese exporters were forced to accept lower profit margins , but there will have been some compensating improvement in the profitability of import-competing industries in the United States and Europe as Japanese exporters found themselves obliged to raise their prices to recoup some of the cost increases . |
| 24 | SINGAPORE Para Rubber reported lower profits before tax of £148,000 for the six months to 30 June , compared with £212,000 previously . |
| 25 | Unilever helped sentiment by revealing third-quarter profits at the top end of expectations . |
| 26 | At the end of October , the company reported third-quarter profits of £93m , compared with £196m last year . |
| 27 | National Westminster Bancorp reported after-tax profits of $30m ( £17m ) in the first quarter , compared with a $191m loss during the same period last year . |
| 28 | Since monopoly may yield high profits to the firm , it is likely that firms will expend large quantities of resources in trying to acquire and secure monopoly positions . |
| 29 | TSW-TELEVISION South West reported taxable profits of £3.19m for the year to 31 July , compared with £3m in the previous year . |
| 30 | London-based Aberdeen Petroleum , which yesterday reported annual profits which have soared from only £78,000 the year before to £355,000 before tax , is one such minnow . |