Example sentences of "company the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In five of the six companies the environmental issues are determined mainly by the planners within the planning department itself and in a totally informal way . |
| 2 | The shareholders in non-profit institutions and publicly owned companies in both cases are more or less synonymous with the customers of the firm ; they provide no additional constraint apart from this , though in publicly owned companies the relevant government department will impose its own constraints ( see chapter 4 ) . |
| 3 | For many companies the first pay and file deadline is now less than 12 months away . |
| 4 | In many companies the normal management accounting system will only pick up a currency exposure when the sales entry has been made and by that time adverse currency fluctuations could have eroded or wiped out the profit margin . |
| 5 | When they engage in partnership activities with a company or companies the commercial aspects of their activities are often overlooked or under-rated . |
| 6 | Despite the fact that small companies promise substantially faster growth , the survey revealed that for large companies the median price to earnings ratio was a heady 20.6 , compared with 15.4 for smaller firms . |
| 7 | The EC rules give EC companies the same rights as individuals . |
| 8 | In nine other companies the top director had received an increase of 30 per cent or more . |
| 9 | ‘ If you consider that out of the 1,800 listed companies the top 200 account for 85 per cent of the equity market by market capital , and that once you get to the next 100 companies like ourselves they already have comparatively few qualified people in the finance function , the addition of equally qualified internal audit people looks like overkill . ’ |
| 10 | In all six companies the corporate planning department formulated a list of environmental issues which were considered to be of key importance to the company as a whole . |
| 11 | ‘ What will give companies the competitive edge is the quality of the way their people treat customers and that is linked to the way they are treated by managers . |
| 12 | The deal is the largest cash advance in music publishing history , and gives the company the sole rights to market John 's catalogue of music from 1974 to the present as well as material from his next six albums . |
| 13 | The Publisher shall pay to the Company the following royalties on sales of the Work . |
| 14 | By adopting a contractual conception of the company the legal model gives as the reason for the vesting of centralized authority to manage the company in the board of directors the contractual agreement of the owners of the company . |
| 15 | As the purpose of an administration order is to give the company the necessary breathing space to achieve one or more of the purposes for which the order was made , the Act contains provisions designed to preserve the status quo and protect the property of the company against claims by creditors while the administrator attempts to achieve the purpose of the administration order . |
| 16 | To ensure that the internal auditors have a significant degree of independence within the company the chief internal auditor should report to the chief executive and to a financial reporting and audit committee ( FRAC ) made up entirely of non-executive directors . |
| 17 | Often the smaller the company the greater the propensity for this particular weakness to develop . |
| 18 | Accordingly , makers and dealers in ‘ bootleg ’ recordings did not commit this tort even though their activities very seriously affected the value of a contract giving a recording company the exclusive right to exploit live performances . |
| 19 | Inspector Brian Jaggs , of Braintree police , said yesterday that according to the alarm company the only way the £8,000 car could have been taken was to be physically removed by trailer , and it was likely it was stolen to order . |
| 20 | We have the same contract for all of our products whichever company the only difference is that they 're slightly colour coded . |
| 21 | But once the size of companies expanded further it was very easy to accommodate the fact that whilst directors remained responsible for the formulation of the overall policy of the company the ordinary management was entrusted to executives . |
| 22 | Amersham is paying $61.3m ( £38.3m ) to acquire Medi-Physics , the loss-making radiopharmaceuticals subsidiary of Hoffman-La Roche , to make the UK company the largest player in the £300m world radiopharmaceutical market , whose products are used for imaging organs of the body for diagnostic purposes . |
| 23 | I was keeping a glass of chablis company the other day with Jonathan Hayden and Fiona Brownlee from Pavilion Books , and we got talking about what might have happened in grown-up life to the heroes and heroines of the children 's books of our youth . |
| 24 | So we suggested that for the production phase it might be better if one company was to build one wing and the other company the other er and that 's . |
| 25 | He says that although it 's a large company the other young men preferred other parts . |
| 26 | For at a conference in London , Russian space scientists awarded a British company the first foreign franchise to sell pictures from their most powerful orbiting cameras . |
| 27 | In contrast a site within the county of Hertfordshire was considered an ideal area for relocation since this appeared to offer the company the best opportunity to fulfil most of its objectives . |
| 28 | When the decision is made to approach a target company the best way of doing this should be considered . |
| 29 | Meanwhile Nat Cohen , who had brought his Anglo-Amalgamated company under the EMI umbrella , brought to the company the slick thriller , Get Carter ( 1971 ) , directed by Mike Hodges , another TV graduate . |
| 30 | However , for the Gosville Company the general picture was of increase from 1939 to 1949 , then a period of stability , followed by decline in service frequency of just over 15 per cent during the 1970s . |