Example sentences of "profit and [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The financial plan showed the investment impact on sales , profit and return on investment per year over the next ten years , while the financing plan described how the investment was to be financed : namely , from borrowings in the early years until the plan became self-financing from funds accrued from current operations , in year four . |
| 2 | He then described his proposals to reduce that cost penalty and turn the division from an operating loss into a satisfactory profit and return on investment . |
| 3 | Unemployment in the sector would be reduced by two hundred thousand , and existing manufacturing capacity , previously made idle by imports , would once more be fully utilised , thus improving operating profit and return on investment . |
| 4 | Capitalism is a system of producing profit and gain for a few at the expense of others . |
| 5 | This was the case in Lord Rothermere v Bernard Levin & Times Newspapers , where the defendants had published an attack ( " Profit and dishonour in Fleet Street " ) on Rothermere 's integrity in closing down a newspaper . |
| 6 | Until now we have assumed that banks decide for themselves upon the appropriate ratio in the light of their desire for profit and need for liquidity . |
| 7 | He asks that states be committed to rejecting all ‘ temptations to secure economic dominance over other nations , ’ thus renouncing profit and opting for solidity . |