Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] [prep] company " in BNC.
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| 1 | The more the activities of companies are transparent , the more accurately will their securities be valued . ’ |
| 2 | The growth of intra-industry is deemed to require a considerable amount of Europeanisation of the activities of companies by merger and acquisition , and DFI . |
| 3 | The Ethical Investment Research and Information Service ( EIRIS ) , an independent organisation which advises investors on the activities of companies , has found that nearly a quarter of Britain 's major companies breached the limitations on discharges into rivers and waterways on numerous occasions in the last three years . |
| 4 | On the other hand , the openings in companies ' legal departments are much fewer than in private practice ; and in any case you should not consider articles in commerce or industry unless you are keen to make this your career . |
| 5 | Pursuant to the Directives ' aim to promote comparability of the accounts of companies of the various member States , companies are required to adopt one of two prescribed formats for the balance sheet and one of four for the profit and loss account but in doing so they may use either the prescribed ‘ historical cost accounting rules ’ or the ‘ alternative accounting rules ’ which pay greater recognition to the impact of inflation by a type of current cost accounting . |
| 6 | To develop an awareness and understanding of the interactions between company operations and the environment for both itself and the general public . |
| 7 | Both may find new partners instead from the ranks of companies eyeing the sudden boom in aerospace : including those from Japan ( see below ) . |
| 8 | A survey just completed , sponsored by the Board for Chartered Accountants in Business ( the BCAB ) and the Institute 's Research Board , sought to obtain the views of company accountants on many of the R&D accounting and disclosure issues raised by these developments and recommendations . |
| 9 | Mr Lamont increased the scales for company car taxation by 8 per cent , costing drivers an extra £100 million in total in 1993/4 . |
| 10 | Not only does it normally require an exceptionally large financial injection , but the rules of company law are considerably more demanding for public companies than for private ones or partnerships . |
| 11 | It is with the legitimacy of this discretion , and particularly with the form that the rules of company law should take in order to control it in the public interest , that this book is principally concerned . |
| 12 | If this is so , the legal model of the company as so far described needs to be rejected in favour of one which does not explain the rules of company law exclusively in terms of the rights of owners , but which instead regards members and employees as joint stakeholders , each with legitimate demands that the company be run for their benefit . |
| 13 | This issue is taken up in the next chapter where some of the rules of company law that support the functioning of the market are examined . |
| 14 | We should recall here how alive the Chicago School was to this link , even if they saw people 's careers and mobility as largely products of their own actions rather than also the products of companies and other institutions . |
| 15 | Laws Laws that affect the operations of companies within the country . |
| 16 | It is developed from research into the characteristics of companies at risk that best differentiated those which ultimately failed from those which were able to recover . |
| 17 | The merger of Mills and Boon and the Harlequin imprint acts as a paradigm for the sequences of company mergers and takeovers that took place in the sixties and seventies in publishing in Britain and America , a period in which the ownership structures of publishing underwent a profound shift away from specialist producers and distributors of books , towards groups of publishing houses owned largely by corporate organizations whose primary interests were not in publishing . |
| 18 | Above , an awkward shuffle up a short steep wall deposited us on a flat-topped summit of the lesser Drug , with only the choughs for company . |
| 19 | Instead their reports should stick to investigating and reporting the facts , he told the MPs ' inquiry into the methods of company investigations . |
| 20 | Mr Kelman believes that the net result of the Law Commission proposal will be to increase the risks to companies because hackers who often tell their ‘ victims ’ about their insecure systems will be afraid to do so . |
| 21 | The maximum fees that companies can charge for inspection or copies are now prescribed by regulations ( the former practice of stating them in the primary legislation did not work well in an inflationary climate ) and these regulations clarify the obligations of companies regarding inspection and copies . |
| 22 | Second , the pace of technological development meant that the advantages to companies from new products or improvements were short-lived and soon overtaken by others . |
| 23 | Pressure was put on some MPs who are the directors of companies from the bosses of the companies , warning them not to vote against the Government . |
| 24 | Sometimes when I 've come home from the pictures and I let myself in , it 's so quiet I 'd nearly talk to the statues for company . ’ |
| 25 | A pilot investigation into the effects of company and employee motivation of the self teach Open Learning Scheme at Jaguar Cars Ltd . |
| 26 | In addition , employees share the proceeds of company success either through general productivity bonuses or bonuses attributed to their particular section . |
| 27 | The sale of the Express Group by Fleet Holdings ( ex-Trafalgar House ) to United Newspapers in the mid-1980s , the sale of the Telegraph to the Canadian Conrad Black , the re-launch and closure of the Evening Standard ( 1987 ) , the launch and demise of the London Daily News and the purchase of Today by Murdoch ( 1987 ) amongst other recent changes , have all the appearances of companies engaging in long-term strategic planning rather than political machination on behalf of any specific political faction . |
| 28 | The past year has seen much debate in the UK about the duties of company directors , both executive and non-executive , and about the structure and functioning of boards . |
| 29 | The areas of company activity mentioned are targeted by the company as being the most important in our efforts to progressively improve overall environmental performance . |
| 30 | Stage II benefits arise from the removal of technical and regulatory rules which increase the costs of companies . |