I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a desperate bid (= attempt )
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He was standing in the middle of the road in a desperate bid to get help.
a suicide bid (= a suicide attempt – used in news reports )
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The singer was rushed to hospital after an apparent suicide bid.
a vain attempt/bid/effort
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People close their windows at night in a vain attempt to shut out the sound of gunfire.
an escape attempt/bid
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She made several unsuccessful escape attempts before finally getting away.
an unsuccessful attempt/bid/effort
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We made several unsuccessful attempts to tackle the problem.
bid farewell to
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Mourners gathered to bid farewell to the victims of the plane tragedy.
bid...adieu
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He bid her adieu .
takeover bid
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Thornbury has announced a takeover bid of a regional TV company.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
competitive
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Moreover, departmental rivalries are endemic in the style of central government whereby competitive bids are made for limited financial resources.
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A top prison official ordered the contract approved without competitive bids and went to work for VitaPro several months later.
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A Court Scheme is not a practical option where one or more competitive bids may be made.
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Virginia -- $ 119. 4 million of Series 1996 general obligation refunding bonds, via competitive bid .
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Thursday San Antonio -- $ 51 million of Series 1996 securities, via competitive bid .
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Typically, public agencies have to secure competitive bids for any procurement contract over a set amount-say, $ 5, 000.
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There was -- Diamond interests received a 25-year extension on the contract to manage Old Tucson, without a competitive bid .
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The government last August said it was axing the contract because it was too expensive and was awarded without competitive bids .
desperate
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Or as a desperate bid to get Aviemore to come up with the money?
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Every so often a rabbit would make a desperate , lung-bursting bid for freedom, only to provide an easy target for the twelve-bores.
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Protestors had climbed lime trees in a desperate bid to stop them being destroyed.
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Then Vernage noticed Sergeant King staggering down the road in a desperate bid to flag down a car.
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Even though he could barely stand, John made one last desperate bid for survival.
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They meet again today in a desperate bid to sort out who gets what of next year's £244.5 billion spending cake.
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Singlewood, 17, ran into the courtyard of Durham Castle in a desperate bid to shake off his pursuer.
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Knox made a desperate bid to get in front at the last corner but Martin held his line and emerged the winner.
final
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War criminals kept from trial, page 8 Labour loses final bid to curb donations.
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They began to sell their land and, in a final bid to avoid starvation, started to flock to Calcutta.
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A fair number of final bids which came in under the reserve price were later accepted.
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However, the brothers filed through their shackles and made a desperate and final bid for freedom.
high
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It will allocate them in descending order from the highest priced bid to the lowest.
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Shares in Maybelline as investors had been anticipating higher bids .
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In the event of two or more applicants for the same franchise, both parties will be able to submit higher bids .
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The Mayor has decided that the nameplate will go to the highest bid received by post.
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The nameplate Preston Guild which can be yours for the highest bid .
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At auction the purchaser may have been able to acquire the site at a marginal figure above the next highest bid .
hostile
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In a hostile bid , very little will be forthcoming.
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The Abingdon-based Morland brewers will know tomorrow if they've managed to fight off a hostile takeover bid .
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But it's now facing a hostile takeover bid by a Suffolk based-brewery, Greene King.
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There have been a few hostile bids , most notably that by Paribas for a conglomerate, Navigation Mixte.
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But shareholding rules make hostile bids hard to win.
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Laporte won the battle with a £129.4m offer and Wassall responded by abandoning its hostile bid .
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The hostile bid has infuriated board members of the Dowty group, who claim that their company is being underpriced.
presidential
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The rumours killed Rachel Jackson before hubby took office, just as they had killed his 1824 presidential bid .
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Phil Gramm ended his presidential bid Wednesday in much the same way he campaigned: short on emotion and long on economics.
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Forbes, 48, a multimillionaire funding his presidential bid with his own money, has never held elective office.
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Dole, who needs conservative activists' support for his presidential bid .
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He contends that an independent presidential bid by the Rev.
successful
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The substantial sums which back the successful bids will be pocketed by the Treasury.
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Schoellkopf responded with a successful bid of $ 71, 000.
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His successful bid was for £190,000 although he had made a higher prior offer which had been turned down.
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Mr Mates was the efficient stage manager of Michael Heseltine's almost successful bid for the premiership.
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A few successful bids for his liberty, to tearful disappointments.
unsuccessful
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The move follows an unsuccessful bid by Mr Foster to get the board to reinstate the facility Teesdale farmers regard as essential.
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Hilton and Boomtown previously made an unsuccessful bid for a license in Lawrenceburg, Ind.
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Currys was taken over in 1984, two years before the unsuccessful £1.8billion bid for Woolworths.
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They danced, and he made an unsuccessful bid on a weekend at Hilton Head.
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He waged an unsuccessful primary bid for president in 1988.
■ NOUN
price
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There is a minimum bid price of entry to a second phase.
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The largest spread allowed between offer and bid prices is 15 percent of net asset value.
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It is usual practice for the management of the trust to set the bid price above the limit set by the formula.
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The minimum possible bid price is equal to the cancellation price.
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If the shares are retained, the investor is offered a mid-market rather than a bid price .
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Otherwise the investor will get the bid price less charges, although the sale commission will be waived on larger amounts.
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The current plan is for single pricing , in place of offer and bid prices, with the initial charge added on for buyers.
takeover
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Knighton is reported to be ready to abandon his takeover bid .
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And initial notification of such a takeover bid is almost never made by letter, for secrecy reasons.
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The rise in the Tonka bond was helped by a takeover bid from another toymaker, Hasbro.
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We're vulnerable to another takeover bid , especially if there's another recession.
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The Abingdon-based Morland brewers will know tomorrow if they've managed to fight off a hostile takeover bid .
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Last year Pilkington was regarded as the company still most likely to face a takeover bid , according to analysts.
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The definition of insider dealing would be expanded to include those contemplating a takeover bid as well as people using inside information.
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Time allowed 00:18 Read in studio A brewery which fought off a hostile takeover bid last year has announced record profits.
■ VERB
accept
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The government subsequently decided not to accept any of the bids for Land Rover during April 1986 amid considerable political embarrassment.
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Last month, the Council on Competitive Government voted to accept bids on a contract.
announce
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Quackenbush, 43, has not announced a reelection bid but has formed a campaign committee.
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The price has risen by 119p since Caradon announced a possible bid on 31 August.
consider
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When considering bids , preference will be given to bids involving significant employee participation.
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The measure, considered a long-shot bid , failed when the Communists could not muster enough votes to pass it.
fail
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Here, the District had few branches and had failed in its bid to secure funding for its own tutor-organiser.
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He and his wife Sandra contributed a total of $ 750 to her failed bid for county office.
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The parents of Allitt's victims have already failed in a court bid to force a public inquiry.
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He failed in his first bid in 1994.
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Carol Embury failed in her bid to win control of Swindon three years ago.
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Since a failed bid for the 1992 team, she became a mom.
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Dalglish switched his sights to Marker after failing in a £2.5million bid for Craig Short.
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He is from Sao Paulo, but failed in a bid to become the city's mayor in 1996.
launch
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It has also launched a bid to overturn a ban on the use of vast factory whaling ships.
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Edinburgh-based Dragon launched the all-paper bid for its rival Far Eastern trust last month.
lose
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And every lost bid is systematically examined to determine the crucial factors for next time.
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She could not, however, save his losing bid for a second term.
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War criminals kept from trial, page 8 Labour loses final bid to curb donations.
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Jim Gonzalez, the only Latino on the board at the time, lost in his re-election bid .
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Mark Chapman, who shot John Lennon dead 20 years ago, has lost his first bid for parole.
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Powell lost his bid to have his ally Richard Armitage, appointed as deputy defence secretary under Rumsfeld.
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Even if the race-track owners lose their bid , neighbouring tribes will get the machines too.
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In October, the performers lost a three-month legal bid to replace Kipperman.
make
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Mr Clerides, 73, who was making his third bid for the presidency, was far more reserved about the proposals.
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The paddle is used to make a bid .
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It was the same outfit Archer had told Newman that made the bid for Bennington.
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Hilton and Boomtown previously made an unsuccessful bid for a license in Lawrenceburg, Ind.
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But shareholding rules make hostile bids hard to win.
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They laughed, made jokes and bid on auction items such as a 1980 bottle of Parducci Cabernet Sauvignon.
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But the grand design was torpedoed when Lord Hanson made a bid for Imperial that shareholders found impossible to resist.
mount
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However, if we continue to have a milder climate, it could mount a takeover bid in the garden.
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Conservative Washington commentator Patrick Buchanan, 58, is a perennial contender, having mounted losing bids in 1992 and this year.
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They would rather mount their own bid .
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A crucial factor upon which it will depend is the speed at which management-employee buy-out teams can mount bids .
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The fans are mounting their own bid for a voice in the game.
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Tomkins shares fell 7p to 276p on fears it is planning to mount a bid .
put
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But Mr Hooke says until the deal is closed he will continue to try to put his bid before BAe's board.
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Mter months of work and many meetings, the Mosher team put in their bid .
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Comsat, the Washington satellite firm, has put in a bid for all the craft.
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When the land came on the market, a dozen or so serious purchasers put in bids .
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People put together their bids only to find that the work invariably stays with the in-house team.
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Instead, AHAs would be expected to put in appropriate bids for development.
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Local authorities will have until the end of September to put in bids for funding.
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Only when a firm is put into play or bid for is the management's performance given any scrutiny.
raise
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You simply set a starting bid and leave an instruction to raise the bid in preset increments up to a ceiling.
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But then it would realize that the other firm would have also worked that out, and it should raise its bid .
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GEC/Siemens raised their bid to £2 billion in August 1989 and this proved sufficient to end the long running battle.
receive
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The airline received 14, 760 bids during the auction, which lasted 2 1 / 2 months.
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Pemex received three bids on its Cosolacaque operation, which produces ammonia in southeastern Veracruz state.
reject
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Your Board and its financial advisers Purchase and Szell continue to recommend strongly that you reject the bid .
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Wagenbach rejected a bid by Elliott to introduce as evidence an offer made to Mrs Moon to take a lie detector test.
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Police chiefs were asked to return to the drawing board after the Treasury rejected their bid for more than £200m.
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A Superior Court and state appeals court rejected her bid for parental rights.
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Morland rejects: Small independent brewer Morland last night rejected a £101.3m takeover bid from larger rival Greene King.
save
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Also there, Captain Oates, the man who was to make the ultimate sacrifice in a bid to save his colleagues.
submit
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The government has set June 11 as the deadline for submitting bids , and hopes to select a concessionaire by July 3.
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On a large construction project, for example, the estimating process begins with the decision to submit a bid .
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It was awarded to us by the Independent Television Commission after we submitted an unopposed bid for the franchise.
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Three times Public Works submitted bids , and three times it lost.
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In the event of two or more applicants for the same franchise, both parties will be able to submit higher bids .
support
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We actively support Manchester's bid to bring the Olympic Games to Britain.
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Dole, who needs conservative activists' support for his presidential bid .
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We will actively support Britain's bid to host the 2000 Olympic Games in Manchester.
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And the Friends of Eastham Country Park are supporting their bid .
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Is my hon. Friend aware that, as polytechnics are to disappear, we now support its bid to become a university?
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Finally we would like to thank all our neighbours who have consistently supported us in our bid to settle permanently in Passfield.
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I really don't think I could support a bid for a supplementary allocation.
win
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Rabo owns an independent facilities management firm, Facet, which will run the network should it win the bid .
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The winning bid of R $ 279.6m was almost seven times the government's minimum of R $ 36.2m.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
hostile takeover/bid
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But some societies fear hostile bids - a subject on the agenda at the Building Societies Association council meeting tomorrow.
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Jobs under threat ... Dowty loses the hostile takeover battle.
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Most bids were hostile , or were responses to actual or threatened hostile bids.
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Round one to Morlands ... brewery fight off hostile takeover.
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The only difference with hostile takeovers may be that the prices are higher.
top an offer/a bid etc
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A number of companies have submitted bids to buy the supermarket chain.
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The highest bid for the painting was £400.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A Superior Court and state appeals court rejected her bid for parental rights.
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But it's now facing a hostile takeover bid by a Suffolk based-brewery, Greene King.
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If he does not, analysts are already talking about recommending the shares on bid hopes.
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McCormick would not rule out the possibility of making a bid for the business.
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Secretary of State Christopher is to join IsraelSyria peace talks today in Maryland in an intensified bid for progress in the negotiations.
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That is being provided and I look forward to meeting the bid committee again towards the end of this month.
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The bids value Burmine shares at A $ 4. 00 each and Gasgoyne shares at A $ 2. 67 each.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
company
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More than 60 companies have bid for access.
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The bid is conditional on Aberdeen shareholders deciding to reject their company's bid for Brabant Resources, another small oil company .
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Together the two companies bid almost £53m to retain their 10 year broadcasting licences in last year's franchise auction.
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The company had to bid for its new broadcasting licence at auction and won it with a bid of £2,000.
contract
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Maenwhile, Group 4 says it will bid for any future contracts .
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Instead, the city should be preparing to bid on the contracts to provide services to the new communities.
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Mr Hamilton added that several law firms had asked whether they could bid for contracts as consortia.
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We maintain the authority to adjust the bid if contracts are not formalized in that period. 15.
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Likewise, voluntary bodies need funding to enable them to bid for contracts .
investor
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Soon after the opening on Nasdaq yesterday, investors had bid the stock up to a high of 373 / 4.
price
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And as we all know, bids push up share prices .
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However, a surplus or excess supply still exists and competition among sellers will once again bid down the price of corn.
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Instead of spurring more output and a stronger economy, those dollars would merely bid up prices .
takeover
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The emergency consists of a takeover bid by a larger and more aggressive company.
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Also rumoured they used strong-arm tactics during one of Buckmaster's many takeover bids to build up his conglomerate.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
at sb's bidding
do sb's bidding
hostile takeover/bid
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But some societies fear hostile bids - a subject on the agenda at the Building Societies Association council meeting tomorrow.
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Jobs under threat ... Dowty loses the hostile takeover battle.
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Most bids were hostile , or were responses to actual or threatened hostile bids.
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Round one to Morlands ... brewery fight off hostile takeover.
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The only difference with hostile takeovers may be that the prices are higher.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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At the auction, I bid £50 for a small antique mirror, but it ended up selling for over £200.
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Baxley International said Friday that it bid $11 million in cash and stock to acquire the Los Angeles-based company.
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Competition between the two companies bidding for the contract is fierce.
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San Diego is asking private companies to bid against city workers to run one of the city's three water treatment plants.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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If Richemont should buy out the Philip Morris stake it would trigger an obligation to bid for the rest of the shares.
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Lawrence was saying that Man City have bid 1.5 million, but he has recommended that the offer is rejected.
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The airline asked five airplane makers to bid on an order for $ 1 billion worth of new jets.
III. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
farewell
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And after designing 72 issues of Zzap! 64 I bid you all fond farewell and big hello to Commodore Force!
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Some wept as they bid the popular Aristide farewell .
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Sailing away: Middlesbrough residents have bid their final farewell to their adopted ship.
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I bid a fond farewell to the stack of porno mags beside my bed.
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She had bid her old mistress farewell the day before.
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Fast-food restaurants on International Speedway Boulevard used sign space usually reserved for specials to bid Earnhardt farewell .
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To the right lithographer Enid Randles bids farewell to friends and colleagues at Eagle Pottery after 15 years' service.
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When we rose to bid farewell , the mood was one of excitement, pleasure, satisfaction.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Phil Gramm of Texas, who lost a presidential primary bid against Dole.
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The airline asked five airplane makers to bid on an order for $ 1 billion worth of new jets.