Example sentences of "[noun] for [noun] [adv] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Spending on capital items and allowances for depreciation also affected the cash flow differently last year . |
| 32 | The hon. Member for Linlithgow also mentioned the issue of dry versus wet forests . |
| 33 | The hon. Member for Ogmore also raised the question of the Robert George case . |
| 34 | The hon. Member for Garscadden then considered the Scottish Enterprise and the Highlands and Islands Enterprise budgets and , because that was good news , he immediately tried to take the Lanarkshire component out of it . |
| 35 | I understand that the hon. Member for Dagenham also refused a similar offer from my right hon. Friend the Member for Henley ( Mr. Heseltine ) . |
| 36 | The hon. Member for Eastbourne also quoted a Price Waterhouse survey at some length , and referred to shortfall between what we pay and the fees charged . |
| 37 | The prospect of exporting live horses for meat still causes a greater outcry than the continued export of half a million live British sheep each year . |
| 38 | ‘ He took me to his hotel for dinner then spent the first half of the evening trying to get me drunk and the second half trying to get me upstairs . ’ |
| 39 | By Captain Becher MAIDEN races for two-year-olds frequently offer the punter tremendous scope for making money . |
| 40 | For example , if the price of BP October calls with an exercise price of 220p were only 10p then investors could buy the calls and exercise by buying the shares at 220p making a total purchase price of 230p and selling them back to the market for 237p thus making a profit of 7p per share . |
| 41 | In the absence of transactions costs and the option premium this series of contracts would permit the investor to buy the shares at 220p from the writer and sell them in the market for 237p thus gaining a gross profit of 17p per share . |