Example sentences of "company now [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not possible to go into the details of the technology involved or to mention all the companies now producing hardware and software for the hotel industry , but to name a few : |
| 2 | The state-owned textile companies now operating with insufficient working capital are even more vulnerable to price gouging by Asian wholesalers ( Coughlin , 1987 ) . |
| 3 | It found that more than half of companies now use contract hire compared with only three in 10 during 1991 . |
| 4 | Other factoring companies now use terms such as Cash Flow Management ( RoyScot Factors ) and Business Finance ( Alex Lawrie ) in their promotional materials . |
| 5 | That , coupled with an estimated 50 million working days a year lost to smoking-related illness , means companies now list smoking as their main health concern for male employees and second most important , after VDU and computer worries , for women . |
| 6 | It shows up in the way our best run companies now organize their work , regard their workers , design their enterprises . |
| 7 | In other words , companies now spend fewer pounds to get a million instructions per second ( mips ) from their machines ( see table ) . |
| 8 | Britain 's car manufacturers and oil companies now accept the inevitability of lead-free petrol . |
| 9 | Some major companies now seem , however , capable of finding ways around the obstacles . |
| 10 | While the top three or four companies now seem to be in reasonable financial shape it is the medium-sized firms in the top thirty that are feeling the pressure . |
| 11 | With companies now planning their entertainment strategy for the coming year , some will be looking for a more exciting day out . |
| 12 | In Britain , we now have three publishing houses committed to women 's writing and at least two of the large publishing companies now carry a separate list for books of special interest to women . |
| 13 | The biggest cut comes in Germany where its packaging plant in Braunschweig is to close at a cost of 275 jobs , and the decision highlights the growing structural problem in the German economy : growing numbers of German and international companies now find that the high cost of employment makes it too expensive to manufacture there . |
| 14 | X/Open says 500 products from 27 companies now comply with its XPG brand . |
| 15 | American car companies now reckon they will use about half the number of suppliers they once did . |
| 16 | An insurance company can choose whether or not to insure anyone , and all companies now refuse insurance to people with HIV . |
| 17 | Some companies now include a clause on the envelope stating they offer a special service under which they accept extra liability for a higher price . |
| 18 | The same , he says , applies to Windows emulation , and there are at least four companies now working on that technology , including the Apple Mac-to-Unix house Quorum Software Systems Inc and Bristol Technology Inc in Ridgefield , Connecticut . |
| 19 | The biggest 1,000 British companies now owe a total of £114.4 billion between them . |
| 20 | Many of the larger UK listed companies now have special arrangements with brokers to offer a cheap dealing service in their shares . |
| 21 | There is a need for a more vigorous competition policy both in manufacturing industry and services but especially with respect to public sector monopolies , and for a change in fiscal policy to remove the artificial incentives which companies now have to retain earnings . |
| 22 | As a result , Japanese companies now have less room for manoeuvre . |
| 23 | For a career in public relations in the future , experience with word processors , computers , and an understanding of information networks , which many large manufacturing companies now have on a world wide basis , will be mandatory . |
| 24 | Most Wood Group companies now have BS5750 and specific certification relevant to their individual activities . |
| 25 | New blood has come into the industry , and many of the companies now have the opportunity to become independent production companies . |
| 26 | According to the Washington Post , more than a third of America 's companies now have some kind of drug-testing programme . |
| 27 | Most of our companies now have BS5750 recognition and in addition specific certification relevant to their specialist activities . |
| 28 | BRITISH scientists and businessmen are trying to break into a vital slice of the semiconductor industry which foreign companies now dominate . |
| 29 | Companies now need to ensure much greater co-operation between their operating departments and their accounting function if they are to make accurate reports properly to Customs . |
| 30 | In Uzzell 's opinion , ‘ companies now want their investment in computers and telecommunications to relate to business volumes ’ as a way of ensuring that they get value for money . |