Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the absence of transactions costs for trading futures and assuming no risk aversion or preference , the current price of a futures contract for delivery at time T in a competitive market will equal today 's expectation of the spot price at time T , that is , F t = E ( S T ) . |
| 2 | The futures contract for June expiry stayed close to its ‘ fair value ’ premium of 29 points for most of the day . |
| 3 | However , the fact that the futures contract for June settlement continued to trade at a 26-point premium to ‘ fair value ’ ( 23 points — the notional premium for buying all Footsie stocks now , but not paying for two and a half months ) indicates that most pundits see the market making further headway after Easter . |
| 4 | The reasons given for involvement follow a clear pattern : ‘ mobilise the masses around precise objectives ’ , ‘ unifying the country ’ , ‘ to help educate the masses and rally support for the government ’ , 'to mobilise the people behind the president and party' , and so on . |
| 5 | But curiously , as he perused once more the reasons given for Murphy 's rejection , they hardly seemed to be the tall boy 's fault . |
| 6 | The proportion of students decreased and the proportion who cited ill health increased with age , and there were significant sex differences in the reasons given for unemployment — more women than men were not in paid employment because of either ill health or homemaking ( table III ) . |
| 7 | Stress , illness , poor morale , family commitments , back injuries sustained at work and the need to prevent cross infection with patients are the reasons given for absence . |
| 8 | Steward cites the medical reasons given for rescue team callouts by friends of youngsters who have collapsed in the hills . |
| 9 | For example , the spread ratio may be unity , the ratio of the contract values , the ratio of contract values adjusted for responsiveness to the general level of market prices , or the ratio of contract values weighted by some factor such as p . |
| 10 | 5000 American pros to gather for C.A.A . |
| 11 | For present purposes it suffices to say that futures contracts undertaken for investment purposes ( as opposed to commercial purposes ) are investments subject to the FSA . |
| 12 | The Buid and Semai examples should also serve as a caution against theories about violence and aggression which treat them as typically involving a contest between two balanced opponents competing for access to a scarce resource . |
| 13 | The number of UK recycling centres has risen from 24 in 1988 to 320 , whilst 163 local authorities registered for aluminium can recycling programmes . |
| 14 | They travel in large concentrated groups to search for food , particularly when herding shoaling pelagic ( open sea ) fish . |
| 15 | On the facts of Modupe the accused was guilty of inducing his creditors to wait for payment when he had obtained credit by stating that he owned property when he did not and by exaggerating his employment status . |
| 16 | The rock garden is dismantled , beds filled in , and borders are reduced to ragged strips struggling for survival along the boundary fence . |
| 17 | There are also signs that in the new era of competitiveness between them , institutions are becoming reluctant to open their course offerings to the critical gaze of panel members drawn from institutions competing for contracts with the funding bodies . |
| 18 | Owner occupiers account for 23pc of households and the inclusion of work to their properties would have a beneficial effect on the overall scheme , members heard . |
| 19 | The defendant formed a company to lease builders skips for rubbish . |
| 20 | Only in Albania was the scenario of dynastic communism and vendetta carried on with more brutality and verve than in Romania , but at least there were two rival clans struggling for control of the Albanian Communist Party . |
| 21 | MAFF 's 1988 report on pesticide residues stated that residues were far higher than originally thought , particularly in the case of fruit and vegetables treated for storage . |
| 22 | Problem 1 Assuming , for the moment , the truth of the assertion of uniqueness made in Remark ( iii ) above , one deduces that , amongst the axioms listed for Z , there must be at least one which can not be satisfied by Q. Can you identify which axiom(s) from A1 through to I are not satisfied if one attempts to apply them to Q instead of Z ? |
| 23 | And remember that times given for stages in guidebooks and on mountain path signposts are estimates for typical , more lightly equipped walkers . |
| 24 | These would best be resolved by a form of cost-benefit which pays close attention to the social ‘ externalities ’ involved in investment projects , which compares the time profiles of return on projects competing for resources at non-usurious rates of discount , and which does not operate with the technocratic pretension that all factors in an investment decision can be rigorously quantified ( i.e. which does not disguise as purely technical questions matters which should properly be open to political debate ) . |
| 25 | Other projects competing for company resources should be analysed in the same way and ranked according to the levels of pay-off for each . |
| 26 | Other projects competing for company resources should be analysed in the same way and ranked according to the levels of pay-off for each . |
| 27 | But it also , to a greater extent , relates to content as well : for example , the Local Government and Housing Act 1989 effectively determines how local authorities account for capital expenditure . |
| 28 | Local authorities account for capital expenditure in a unique way . |
| 29 | He governs , so far as he is able to , on borrowed time because none of the groups contending for power yet feels strong enough to make a grab for it . |
| 30 | Another rare work of note , an oil on linen view of Malacca ( circa 1880 ) , was executed by an anonymous Chinese artist working in the tradition of Chinese port views intended for export to the West . |