1.   A lot of banks are unwilling to lend money to new businesses.

2.   A venture capital fund usually lends money but also demands the right to buy a big slice of the firm.

3.   Banks would lend money more freely and, in fattening their own balance sheets, would feed credit-starved economies.

4.   He was very good about it.

5.   I do not expect my father to lend me money simply because he is a father.

6.   I knew we were taking a risk when we lent him the money.

7.   Its business includes taking deposits and lending money and it has specialised until recently in second mortgages for home-owners.

8.   Markets-where money is lent and borrowed, and paper assets are bought and sold.

9.   No one would lend money to a company in such a precarious position.

10.   Our relationship became very strained because I had refused to lend him money.