Example sentences of "[prep] exchange for " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was alleged that the accounts should have shown a turnover of £2.19m and not £23.69m and that bills of exchange for £2.39m ( referred to as the ‘ Gimco ’ bills ) , included as ‘ bills receivable ’ , should have been treated as irrecoverable . |
| 2 | In 1952 a scheme ( known as ROBOT ) was devised by the Treasury and the Bank of England for a floating rate of exchange for sterling and for the full convertibility of the currency subject to the funding of 80 per cent of the sterling balances held by non-dollar countries . |
| 3 | Near the foot of the Chilterns , Aylesbury was the natural point of exchange for the two regions of Buckinghamshire . |
| 4 | The smith was a key man under the old farm-horse economy ; and the smithy in addition to being an essential and regular place of call was also a kind of exchange for horse and farming news in the district . |
| 5 | Trading results of overseas subsidiaries are translated into Irish pounds at the average rates of exchange for the year . |
| 6 | This first and second method of raising bills of exchange is used where the exporter wishes to raise two bills of exchange for the same debt — this has uses if payment is refused on the first bill or indeed if one bill is lost in the post . |
| 7 | This implies that for any investment asset the marginal rate of exchange between the expected return and the risk ( standard deviation ) of that asset must be equal to the marginal rate of exchange for the market as a whole . |
| 8 | In the private sector its notes were the main medium of exchange for London transactions ; circulation reached £6 million in 1785 , backed by a sizeable fraction of the country 's bullion stock . |
| 9 | Further , as Norman Ginsburg in Class , Capital and Social Policy ( Macmillan : 1979 ) suggests , the role of land law is primarily " to facilitate the process of realisation of surplus value for the builder and the process of exchange for the consumer " ( p. 129 ) . |
| 10 | Also participating are the money dealing departments of commercial and eligible banks and Accepting Houses ; the latter accept bills of exchange for a fee . |
| 11 | Mind you their rate of exchange if if you 'd have bought all pesetas in this country it would have probably been a better rate of exchange for you . |
| 12 | The understanding reached between them and the catholic — nationalist lay leadership resulted in schooling in the future state being allocated to the domain of the church , in exchange for the legitimation of that state by the church leadership . |
| 13 | In 1928 , these schools entered the system of maintained schools , whereby , in exchange for full payment of current costs and 65 per cent of capital expenditure , the former owners and managers , usually churches , were allowed two-thirds representation on the local board of management , with the other third coming from the local authority . |
| 14 | For those who wish to buy their cars , Motability offers a finance scheme under which both new or used cars can be purchased in exchange for part of the mobility allowance . |
| 15 | in exchange for whistles |
| 16 | Venables continues to pursue Mark Wright , Derby County 's England defender , and is giving serious consideration to the swap proposed by Everton which would take Paul Stewart , Tottenham 's blunt instrument of a centre-forward , to Goodison Park in exchange for Tony Cottee . |
| 17 | If Prost wins , then he takes the title with him to Ferrari and , in exchange for the highly desirable numbers 1 and 2 the Italians will present 27 and 28 to McLaren , a particularly irksome detail for such a dominant team to accept . |
| 18 | Hoffman has sold a US company to Amersham in exchange for shares . |
| 19 | In exchange for $1,000 , each ‘ partner ’ was promised a three-night stay at the hotel every year for the rest of their lives . |
| 20 | BOGOTA ( Reuter ) — The Colombian government said it had rejected an offer last year from drug traffickers to give up the drug trade in exchange for not being extradited to the US , and firmly ruled out any dialogue with the traffickers . |
| 21 | It was constrained by a clause in financial arrangements agreed two years ago between all five research councils and the Government whereby in exchange for more flexibility in approving most research grants , they relinquished independence in sponsoring some key research . |
| 22 | The old man was delighted with the packet of cigarettes Sid had given him in exchange for the cider . |
| 23 | When the colony ran short of horses , the manager of the Economic Section of Rabkrin offered to lend some in exchange for wheels and wheat . |
| 24 | Thus the BSA attempted to extort over £20 million from the new government of Zambia in 1964 in exchange for its mineral rights , but was ultimately forced to accept £4 million . |
| 25 | After all , businesses can insure against the exchange rate risk on particular deals — for example , their exports to France — by accepting less sterling today in exchange for the known future quantity of francs . |
| 26 | Once incorporated into Stalin 's Soviet bloc , the economy was reorientated to rely on its own resources as much as possible , while exporting heavy machinery to the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe in exchange for raw materials . |
| 27 | And as for women in their 30s and 40s , Time claims they feel the feminist movement betrayed them by failing to warn them about the sacrifices women had to make in exchange for equality and by pursuing the wrong goals — pushing more strongly for the equal rights amendment than for child care or flexible working hours . |
| 28 | Midland estimates that it will be able to trade its debt for equity stakes at between 30 per cent and 40 per cent of the face value of the loans — getting equity stakes valued between $30million and $40million in exchange for an existing $100million loan . |
| 29 | The five-country meeting at San Jose has assumed a critical atmosphere because of the possible breakdown of last August 's Tela accord , which agreed contra demobilisation in exchange for democratic Nicaraguan elections . |
| 30 | VOLVO is taking a £2.4billion stake in the Swedish state-controlled industrial conglomerate , Procordia , in exchange for the motor giant 's Provendor food division and a 29 per cent holding in the Pharmacia drugs company . |