Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] return " in BNC.
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| 1 | A broad answer to this is provided by Best 's research using agricultural returns ( Best and Champion 1970 ; Best 1976 , 1977 ) . |
| 2 | Using five-minute returns for the period from 1 to 15 October 1987 , they concluded that the negative basis after 11 a.m. on Monday 19 October was primarily due to stale prices , particularly physical delays in the processing of spot transactions , and not to illiquidity . |
| 3 | The Income & Growth PEP allows you to invest in the Capital House Income & Growth Unit Trust which , despite one of the most difficult periods for stock market investment , has seen an investment of £100 grow to £183 over the last five years — had you been able to invest in the Income & Growth PEP over this period you would have received this return free of all personal taxes . |
| 4 | Mr Botham explained his reasoning , saying : ‘ Farmers have enjoyed exaggerated returns in recent months but they should remember that we as a country have to import many of our basic raw materials and as the pound has fallen costs have risen on a pro rata basis . ’ |
| 5 | Noise/horror strikes me as a limited form of self-destruction , that can only yield diminishing returns . |
| 6 | According to chairman and vice-president Allen Razdow , they are a lucrative sideline for MathSoft , since they take only six months to bring to market and yield high returns once on sale . |
| 7 | Request earliest information whether approved policy is to despatch to SHAEF or to endeavour to secure direct return to Russians by Eighth Army negotiations . |
| 8 | It is crucial to note that ‘ wealth begets wealth ’ : that is , productive property provides a return which may itself be reinvested to provide further return . |
| 9 | The regents were not prepared to accept such returns . |
| 10 | Investors have been offered ‘ programmes ’ claiming to provide annual returns of 40 per cent . |
| 11 | Offshore operating companies were also asked to provide quarterly returns which enabled officials to monitor the build up of UK capability in various fields . |
| 12 | In the third chapter of his second letter , the apostle Peter predicted that a time will come when people will poke fun at the ‘ blessed hope ’ of every true believer , the promised and eagerly awaited personal return of the Lord Jesus Christ . |
| 13 | A second study of the APT using UK data was published in 1987 by Abeysekera and Mahajan. ; They used monthly returns on individual securities with a continuous listing on the London Stock Exchange between January 1971 and December 1982 . |
| 14 | Dusak opted for using futures prices , and approximated excess returns , [ E ( F t +1 ; ) - F t ] /S f , by [ E ( F t +1 ; ) - F t ] /F t in her empirical work as this avoided having to collect the spot prices . |
| 15 | The use of particular skills in mining or property development may well yield good returns from abroad . |
| 16 | Abhyankar ( 1992 ) analysed hourly returns and innovations in returns ( the residuals from fitting an AR(2) model to returns ) for the FT-SE 100 from April 1986 to March 1990 . |
| 17 | Cheung and Ng ( 1990 ) used fifteen-minute returns on the S&P500 for four years . |
| 18 | In general terms the narrow range of investments are fairly , very safe and secure investments , but they are ones which are less likely to secure higher returns but of course also , less likely to secure risks of low returns . |
| 19 | So to lower the cost of capital and raise the firm 's value , should you not fill your boots with it , at least until you get so close to bankruptcy that shareholders and creditors start to demand higher returns to balance the risk ? |
| 20 | Second , Mrs Allen was encouraged to rest her leg as much as possible and to elevate it when sitting to encourage venous return and prevent the development of dependent oedema . |
| 21 | These NBIPs are fairly large , potentially risky projects which can yield significant returns in the short term . |
| 22 | Vary tactics and approach to enforcement duties to obtain maximum return from each situation . |
| 23 | The CML also argued that solicitors should make annual returns on the number of conveyancing transactions they completed each year . |
| 24 | He first started in the 1940s while stationed as an army draftsman in London , and from 1966 to 1988 made annual return visits , establishing relationships with Agnew 's , Jeremy Drummond , J.S. Maas and others . |
| 25 | 12 of the 13 Colleges who responded to this question had 6 or more staff for this purpose , and most of the Polytechnics made similar returns . |
| 26 | The problems reflect a painful transition period for Bolt Beranek as its major market — the military military , on which it depended for almost half its revenue — is slipping away while it has yet to see much return from its substantial investment in Asynchronous Transfer Mode switching or its T/10 Integrated Access Device . |
| 27 | ( d ) Keep records of all payments made and make annual returns to the Inland Revenue . |
| 28 | Perhaps a stake in a popular club would give profitable returns indirectly through the sale of drink . |
| 29 | Even in developing societies children may bring little return or ‘ insurance ’ ( Vlassoff 1982 , Nugent 1985 ) . |
| 30 | One that failed to capture or otherwise dissipated half the benefits would still bring social returns over 50 times its cost . |