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61. A number of banks and building societies are paying generous rates to cash Isa customers.

62. The risk was to be shared by central government, local authorities and building societies.

63. The mutual structure of building societies means that capital resources to finance expansion can only be built up out of retained surpluses.

64. Building societies are legally obliged to sell repossessed properties at the best possible price.

65. The major contrast with building societies is the destination of the funds.

66. Some institutions, such as building societies, have few if any short-term assets.

67. Despite competition from the building societies, banks are still the biggest lenders in Britain.

68. The table below shows the best deals currently available from offshore banks and building societies.

69. The climate of deregulation made it necessary to remove restrictions on the ability of building societies to compete in financial markets.

70. During the 1980s building societies found themselves under increasing competitive pressure.

71. In practice(Sentencedict.com), it is only the largest of building societies which can offer a real competitive challenge.

72. The Tories are proud of the way they let the building societies wrestle the banks for customers, and viceversa.

73. Banks now opened on Saturdays because the building societies had gone on the attack.

74. Early registration figures are also said to be disappointing for the banks and building societies which have set up share shops.

75. The focus of interest here is the extent to which the building societies are likely to make inroads into traditional banking business.

76. That gives an annual return of eight percent - more than from most building societies.

76. Sentencedict.com try its best to collect and make good sentences.

77. About half of the 290 million pounds of assets in building societies now will be controlled by banks in two years.

78. Small is beautiful Predictably, the smaller building societies figure prominently in the upper echelons of the result tables.

79. While others advertise building societies, he has enough problems securing a loan.

80. Ease of access to money has been transformed recently with the introduction by building societies of cheque accounts.

81. Building societies would respond to a base rate increase with a hike in their mortgage rates.

82. Why do building societies hold a higher proportion of liquid assets than do pension funds? 2.

83. Building societies couldn't stomach losing millions of pounds from accounts.

84. The Halifax still chafes, occasionally, at the restrictions which the 1986 Building Societies Act imposes on the mutually-owned thrifts.

85. Some of the smaller, less well-known building societies can offer very competitive deals.

86. Building societies were converting into banks, insurance companies were changing their status, the air was thick with windfalls.

87. But some societies fear hostile bids - a subject on the agenda at the Building Societies Association council meeting tomorrow.

88. These operations were largely financed by the building societies.

89. Leeds and Melton Mowbray building societies offer alternatives.

90. Last week, banks and building societies were hanging fire on interest rates.