11.   For the previous few years the soap factory had been losing business because of imports of synthetic detergents, mainly through Lever Bros, the local branch of Unilever.

12.   A Meetings Industry association poll confirmed fears that Britain is increasingly losing conference business to Europe.

13.   Officials from all US exchanges have thwarted further derivatives industry regulation which might have entailed higher costs and lost business to overseas exchanges.

14.   Accountants are losing their businesses, old people are losing their pensions, families are losing their homes and farmers are being thrown off their land.

15.   A PIZZA restaurant-owner has claimed he lost business after police impounded his car.

16.   Eddie Ramsay, managing director of the Powderhall greyhound track in Edinburgh, said he did not expect to lose much business if the bookmakers did extend their hours.

17.   But as I say, the boss had er lost his business by then you know.

18.   Some more far-sighted members feared that the restrictive practices of the ISE meant that business was being lost to overseas exchanges, and changes were required.

19.   Moreover those institutions excluded will be tempted to take their business elsewhere and the UK could lose business to overseas markets.

20.   Although these small firms have lost business, Quigley said many are nimble enough to switch to civilian manufacturing.