Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun pl] company " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 The change in the formula for grossing-up net interest caused some uncertainty , though it is not expected to have any significant impact on the level of net dividends companies pay .
2 In such circumstances by colluding or in virtue of the structural properties of oligopolistic markets companies are able to obtain variable degrees of protection from competitive pressures .
3 CHAIRMAN Bill Goodall bowed out of industrial materials company Scapa Group with record annual results .
4 The foreign companies traded have the nominal values expressed in the native national currencies ; for example , the shares of Dutch chemicals company Akzo have a nominal value of 20 florins .
5 BT believes it still has some way to go before it can match the performance of American telecommunications companies and is also anxious to stay ahead of European public sector rivals .
6 The tax treatment of financial instruments companies use to manage interest rate risk is to be reformed .
7 Schiffer , Turlington and Crawford this year signed exclusive multi-million dollar contracts with top cosmetics companies .
8 The company has also signed with special effects company Industrial Light & Magic Inc , which produced the award-winning effects in Death Becomes Her and the liquid Cyborg in Terminator 2 .
9 • Also in Sweden , Kabi Pharmacia , the pharmaceutical arm of Procordia , is to acquire Fermenta 's 84 per cent stake in Italian drugs company Pierrel , for SKr500m .
10 This would send signals via the craft to American telecommunications companies such as AT&T .
11 The De Haan family , which owns 63 per cent of the travel to financial services company , said it was considering an offer to buy the remainder of the shares at about £3 each .
12 Companies are keen to adopt the ‘ open ’ moniker simply for that purpose : how many suppliers these days describe themselves as open systems companies , when just a few years ago they would probably have sneered at the term .
13 Press reports pointed to efforts by Western arms companies to expand this market to compensate for falling sales to the USA and Europe since the end of the Cold War .
  Next page