Example sentences of "of a company " in BNC.

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1 I must confess I find being a complete freelance is a strain and I love the family feeling of a company .
2 They are often most valuable members of a company because of their ability to sink their own personalities in order to play a range of entirely unusual characters such as the comic Alain in La Fille Mal Gardée , the tragic Bratfisch in Mayerling , Kolia , the son , in A Month in the Country and the ridiculous short dancer in Elite Syncopations .
3 When choreographers wish to be patriotic by displaying the national origins of a company , school or ballet , they must not only be thoroughly conversant with that country 's uniquely traditional folk arts but also be very sensitive to the way that native performers play in the popular theatre .
4 Just a short distance away , where the Whitechapel Road has turned into the Mild End Road , was another East End concern whose name had become part of a company with national interests — Mann Crossman and Paulin of the Albion brewery .
5 For now they sit like shareholders at the annual general meeting of a company whose profits have fallen on last year 's .
6 The decision to expand outside national boundaries is therefore usually taken at some later stage in their development , and this section reviews the factors that may be taken into account in arriving at a decision which fundamentally alters the nature and scope of a company 's activities .
7 Although a transfer of the ownership of a company is unlikely to be well received by the board , care should be taken before making the decision on how to react ; agreeing to increase national control can be less harmful than ( for instance ) withdrawing from the country altogether .
8 This varied experience served to convince Sir Adrian that no top executive can really be successful without an in-depth understanding of the finer points of a company 's operations .
9 I also think it 's a question of being able to provide , certainly at the top of a company , a sense of direction and I find it hard to see how you can have an absolutely clear sense of direction unless you yourself are able to assess the essentials as you see them for success in your particular trade .
10 There is a widely held view among many business experts that selling off a business to a management buy-out team is the easy way out and is not in the best interests of a company 's shareholders .
11 It was to prevent bad development and to show that you could build decent houses with gardens at rents people could afford and also that you could develop a community , which is why he was never in favour of a company town .
12 It invests in all the major points of change in the life of a company , from start-ups through to flotation .
13 Laing feels strongly that the chief executive of a company should define , as he has done at United Biscuits , exactly what its responsibilities to the community are .
14 The chairman of a company like British Aerospace has to anticipate change on a global scale .
15 The same day an early start was made by those men of A Company and Fire Support Company Who were involved in the Parade and Equipment Display at Vaerlose Airfield near Copenhagen .
16 Hence the rule that anyone buying five per cent of a company must say so publicly .
17 Four people could each buy almost five per cent of a company .
18 Sir Donald Acheson , Chief Medical officer Production at Dairy Crest 's creamery in Cambourne , Cornwall , has been suspended until the completion of a company investigation into how mercury got into a tub of Sainsbury 's butter .
19 For Big Blue , OS/2 is just one piece of a grand vision about how all of a company 's computers can work together .
20 The most bothersome political breeze is the idea that , on public-interest grounds , officials — whether in Britain or the European Community — must consider ( ie , reject ) a takeover by Hanson of a company of the size and prominence of ICI .
21 Yet one of the alterations effected in English law by the European Communities Act 1972 is that a person in good faith will not be prejudiced by any ultra vires transactions of a company , provided that the transaction was authorized by the company 's directors .
22 It may prevent extraordinary powers , like that of compulsorily acquiring land , from being abused for unauthorized purposes ; it may prevent a corporation , constituted for purposes of public utility , from endangering those purposes by engaging in other activities ; it may protect the creditors of a company from the dissipation of the company 's capital , to which alone , in the case of a limited company , they can look for payment , and the members from seeing their contributions applied to purposes for which they did not bargain .
23 Accounts were no longer automatically fully trusted to give a clear and unbiased representation of a company 's performance , the Governor told the institute 's annual dinner in London .
24 The latest figures show they are comfortably the best-paid duo at the head of a company quoted on the London stock market .
25 SIR — As director of a company which supplies market research data to the pharmaceutical industry in the Republic of Ireland , I am looking forward to the forthcoming explanations from United Kingdom opinion poll organisations .
26 It covers brand shares , new products , customer satisfaction and the lucrative area of corporate image ( research into what investors , potential employees and the public think of a company ) .
27 The picturesque result and subsequent offers to purchase , for substantially more than the couple had paid , were not lost on Jill 's father , chairman of a company which already specialised in timber frame building .
28 The brothers went on to operate as secret agents in the Republic of Ireland under cover of a company called Whizz Kids , which supposedly specialised in women 's hot pants .
29 It is very difficult to see how Germany is less centralised and it should be clear that the ‘ subsidiarity ’ principle is merely an allocation of competence , as in the hierarchy of a company , rather than a distribution of power .
30 A man who had made his name by his own imagination and energy , not in just one skill but three : as choreographer , as deviser of revues and other shows , as director of a company that he had brought from obscure provincial competence to world-wide acclaim .
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