1. Bao Dai did indeed have gilt-edged credentials.

2. She looked up into the gilt-edged mirror above the basin and cursed silently.

3. The market soared, especially in government gilt-edged stock, and the pound emerged ever stronger.

4. The sterling bond market apart from gilt-edged had all but ceased to exist.

5. Farrington Stead dealt in gilt-edged securities, investments also offered by Barlow Clowes which went into liquidation in June 1988 owing ￡190million.

6. Gilt-edged securities are among the safest of all investments.

7. Foliaceous strip is gilt-edged, brightness of colour and lustre.

8. Mikel missed a gilt-edged opportunity for number four when he failed to finish off Ballack and Drogba's flowing move, instead drilling straight at the keeper.

9. Bowls brimmed with fresh fruit, and gilt-edged religious books were everywhere.

10. They sensed that the germ theory provided a gilt-edged opportunity to amass a huge fortune.

11. Put some into property, some in gilt-edged stock, and the rest in a high - interest account; that way you don't put all your eggs in on basket.

12. It was a little red leather book with gilt-edged pages, and I was most intrigued by its little gold lock.

13. The practice of buying gilt-edged securities after they have gone ex-dividend and selling them cum-dividend, thus transforming the interest return into capital gain.

14. At times during the 1980s, yields on short-dated eurosterling bonds even fell below those on gilt-edged stocks of similar maturity.

15. Normally this activity is not noticed by the investing public, only by those market professionals intimately concerned with the gilt-edged market.

16. The new team must have some response which goes beyond tamely printing and busily marketing ream after ream of gilt-edged stock.

17. Then they will sit straight and eat up all their nourishing gilt-edged stock.

18. The Bank also intended to continue the tax arrangements available to gilt-edged jobbers under the old system: 1.

19. She crossed the room to a low dressing table with a gilt-edged mirror above it.

20. In other words, three generations might take a family from hard toil through private education to gilt-edged respectability.

21. It is understood that the Government has done nothing to discourage City expectations that it will curtail its gilt-edged buying programme.

22. That is why such debt is regarded as risk-free (or in Britain, gilt-edged), although only inflation-linked bonds may merit that description.

23. While satisfied with Liverpool's performance and result, the Dutchman spurned a gilt-edged chance to win the game late on.

24. Many of the best applications come from accomplished programmers who have working product demos but lack gilt-edged Valley Rolodexes.

25. Every morning, as I awoke, I somehow felt the day coming to me like a new gilt-edged letter, with some unheard-of news awaiting me on the opening of the envelope.

26. Ark of brunet woodiness bed, the head of a bed and edge ark build a calm bedroom like America style, tie - in blue sets gilt-edged bed to taste, reflect America low - keyly coastal characteristic.

27. There is a harrowing moment when each middle-class families first starts to undertand that its gilt-edged securities and War Loan will never recover.

28. Steven Gerrard and Joe Cole contrived to miss a gilt-edged chance late on and Cole then fired wide with the outside of his foot from close range as England finished strongly.

29. His relative neglect, a decline from a heyday of gilt-edged uniform editions and soul - stirring fireside perusal, he would have regarded philosophically.