Example sentences of "[noun sg] on banks " in BNC.

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1 The London Inter-Bank Offer Rate ( LIBOR ) therefore represents the marginal or opportunity cost of funds to the banks and is the major influence on banks ' base rates .
2 The first limitation on banks ' ability to lend is the demand for bank lending .
3 This could be done by imposing a statutory ‘ cash ’ ratio on banks ( where ‘ cash ’ is M0 : i.e. notes and coin and banks ' balances with the Bank of England ) .
4 Because of their apparent similarity to banks and their rapid expansion of recent years , there has been much discussion about their impact on banks , as competitors , and upon the money supply .
5 1 ( a ) From car park on banks of River Wharfe cross bridge at refreshment pavilion and continue straight ahead for 70 yds on other side , avoiding riverside footpath .
6 This caused a panic rush on banks and created such a shortage of new cruzeiros that the black market for dollars was reported to have collapsed .
7 This agreement , in the form of a declaration by governments to change their criminal law , would mean placing an obligation on banks to check the identity of any customer carrying out a one-off transaction worth more than 15,000 European currency units ( ECU1.00=US$1.37255 as at Dec. 17 , 1990 ) , and to report any suspicious dealings to the national authorities .
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9 Even America , where the squeeze on banks is tightest , is still a long way from a banking collapse like that of the 1930s .
10 As with open-market operations and ordinary funding , the sale of securities to the private sector leads to a squeeze on banks ' balances at the Bank of England .
11 The ability to alter dividends is said to give companies more freedom relative to the external dependence on banks who may impose unilateral changes in interest rates or loan allocation .
12 Depths less than this can be explained by the infilling of lagoons and the deposition of some material on banks .
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