| Rushdie's borrowings from Dante consist of topographical and stylistic devices. |
| There have also been borrowings of dishes such as blood pudding and other ways of dealing with pork. |
| Like linguistic systems, it is open to individual inventions and borrowings that expand the language, and redundancies that contract it. |
| For example, interest on borrowings to purchase buy-to-let property can be offset against rental income for individual property investors. |
| Offset and current account mortgages work by setting your savings against your borrowings. |
| In both cases, large foreign banks will underwrite these borrowings and take a charge on the company's assets. |
