Sentence examples for big bookmakers from inspiring English sources

Big bookmakers monitor accounts with the aim of creating a no-risk business.

The Government, understandably, is fed up with the antediluvian funding mechanism that so often requires ministers to bang heads together, amplifying as it does the antipathies dividing the sport and the big bookmakers.

The gravel-voiced frontman for Bet365, the online betting company, is set to lose his ubiquity during matches as part of a "whistle-to-whistle" ban agreed by the big bookmakers.

And on quiet days, the big bookmakers were able to manipulate the course markets, in particular by shortening the odds on the favourites by placing bets just before the race started.

By G. F. T. Ryall The New Yorker, October 31, 1970 P. 138 In England, the Gold Cup race at Doncaster is a blue-ribbon affair for two-year-olds and is sponsored by William Hill, one of the big bookmakers in England.

Such stories can be manna to the press officers of the big bookmakers.

Many pension funds, for example, now hold shares in a big bookmaker.

But it would be immensely attractive to a big bookmaker too, and as such, a big carrot to dangle in front of dithering executives as they weigh up the pros and cons of ABP status.

Even one of Britain's biggest bookmakers condemned the research by KPMG.

The relatively high rates explain why Britain's two biggest bookmakers, Ladbrokes and William Hill, have moved their online operations overseas.

Campbell is currently favourite to win, according to the UK's biggest bookmakers Ladbrokes and William Hill, which are both offering odds of 7/4.