Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [noun pl] of companies " in BNC.
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| 1 | These include very practical interests such as the contaminated land legislation , as well as more general cultural reasons such as the needs of companies to sustain reputations and human societies to explore their own identities and pasts . |
| 2 | Here again there is a vital difference between the powers of companies and partnerships . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Also , some of the profits of companies attempting a takeover may be captured by insiders , and the acquiring company may find it more difficult to buy up shares in the target company as a result of insider dealing . |
| 6 | It is also consistent with the requirements of companies legislation ** . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Both may find new partners instead from the ranks of companies eyeing the sudden boom in aerospace : including those from Japan ( see below ) . |
| 9 | What is more , officials in the department have become more , not less , involved in the affairs of companies . |
| 10 | It is clear from s.1(2) that once deemed an insider , the individual can be held liable for dealings in the securities of companies with which he has no direct relationship . |
| 11 | Levine , an investment banker at a prestigious Wall Street firm , was alleged to have been involved in insider trading over a period of six years , during which time he made huge profits while trading on the basis of material nonpublic information in the securities of companies . |
| 12 | Rent from landownership and shares in the profits of companies have been the twin foundations of the wealthy upper class . |
| 13 | On May 25th he resigned after admitting that he had speculated in the shares of companies associated with Daimler-Benz while sitting on its supervisory board . |
| 14 | One of the major risks stems from an ‘ information asymmetry ’ ( Dixon 1989 ) where the knowledge of investors as to the prospects of companies is extremely low . |
| 15 | The conclusion can only be this : that if a ‘ radical extension ’ of industrial democracy means the appointment of trade union representation to the boards of companies , then the case for it — always improbable in principle — has been shown by events to be insupportable . |
| 16 | But the collapse of the junk-bond market is a big blow to the scores of companies which were planning new offerings . |
| 17 | For convenience , however , auditing shall be described with reference to the requirements of companies . |
| 18 | Competitive pressures are intense and economic fluctuations are highly significant to the fortunes of companies . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Above-average yields can sometimes be spotted on the convertibles of companies that are going through a bad patch , and these more risky recovery situations appeal to speculators . |
| 21 | Democratising pension funds , putting workers on the boards of companies , sponsoring the international worker networking described by Gary Herman in last week 's issue ( ‘ Hooked on IT ’ ) , and making foreign-language training obligatory for company executives ( as well as MPs , especially left Labour MPs ) would do more to make the economy socially progressive and productionist than any campaign to turn the pound into a peseta . |
| 22 | But it often provides the guiding principle for a series of proposals for putting representatives of employees , consumers , environmentalists and the neighbouring community on the boards of companies . |
| 23 | If they would not or could not , at the request of a Government sympathetic to them and their aspirations , give sufficient support to the economic policy advocated by that Government in the general interest , it could not with confidence be supposed that trade union representatives on the boards of companies would give sufficient support to the policies of those companies . |
| 24 | As is often the case in matters of corporate governance , the lead is likely to be taken by the chairmen of companies in which standards of governance are already high , rather than by those who head companies with the greatest scope for strengthening their public accountability . |
| 25 | The amounts which may be charged to share premium account are determined by the requirements of companies legislation . |