Open the brackets, putting the verbs in the correct forms.

1. You can find out this bank’s phone number by (look) in the directory.

2. Last year our company attempted (take over) its nearest competitor.

3. The growth in multinational corporations (to manufacture and trade) on a worldwide basis has led to the growth in the overseas operations of major banks over the last twenty years.

4. As is known, a bank’s size is a significant factor in (determine) how banks are organized.

5. One of the most important functions of a central bank is to accept responsibility for (advise) the government.

6. (Earn) profits cannot be the responsibility of business, because its main exercise is to create organizations with a real commitment to the community.

7. The Anti-Monopoly Minister was accused of (to be inefficient) because he discourages original ideas and postpones decision-making.

8. (Increase) its range of services to private individuals, our bank (install) and is continuing to develop its own electronic transaction card system.

9. (Hope) to restore investor confidence, the US administration has adopted a law (tighten) regulation of companies’ financial reporting.

10. Deposits, payments and credits are the basis of the services (to offer) by banks.

11. The services make it possible for banks to generate profits and achieve their (to operate) aims.

12. The necessary information is (to provide) by the profit and loss account for the period in question.

13. A bank's (to account) systems are (to design) to record and present the many transactions that take place every day.

14. A bank should have (to retain) profits in the business for future operations.

Infinitive or the ing-form

Infinitive or the ing-form

(continued)