Example sentences of "['s] [noun sg] [noun] under [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Enterprise Computer Holdings Plc fears it has been misunderstood : the company is keen to stress that Finance Director Les Kemp has the unhappy confusion over last year 's accounting figures under control ( CI No 2,162 ) but wants to know how accountants KPMG Peat Marwick managed not to sign the audit report for subsidiary Enterprise Computer Services ; apparently there was confusion at the time over the verification of certain bank loans ; all should be clear in the next report and the company says it expects to show a return to profit . |
| 2 | Care must also be taken to ensure that , if the price of the consideration shares falls , the total shares to be issued do not exceed 30 per cent of the purchaser 's share capital as the vendor may then be obliged to make an offer to purchase the remainder of the purchaser 's share capital under rule 9 of the City Code . |
| 3 | Milpitas , California-based Adaptec Inc says it has no immediate response to reports that competitor Distributed Processing Technology Inc , Maitland , Florida has slashed prices on its AT amd EISA disk controller boards : fear of a price war put Adaptec 's share price under pressure last week ; the company told Reuter ‘ Competitive pressure has always been there and we 'll respond as we always have ’ to it ; Adaptec 's manufacturing organisation could cut costs and pass the benefits onto its customers ; Distributed Processing is discounting its AT adaptors to $285 from $655 . |
| 4 | A local ballot was held in March 1984 in four of the five ‘ non-militant ’ fields ( Leicestershire was the exception ) to decide whether to follow Scargill 's strike call under Rule 43 ; the results were 32 per cent in favour in North Wales , 28 per cent in Staffordshire , 26.5 per cent in Nottinghamshire , and 17 per cent in South Derbyshire . |
| 5 | This development was part of a looming trade dispute , the Bush administration having announced on Aug. 21 that unless China removed barriers to the entry of US products into the Chinese market by Oct. 10 , it would impose punitive tariffs of up to 100 per cent of value on Chinese-made imports worth US$3,900 million [ see p. 39051 ; see also p. 38530 for opening in October 1991 of US investigations into China 's trade barriers under Section 301 of the 1988 Trade Act ] . |
| 6 | Town 's Christmas light under threat |
| 7 | But the five-figure sum paid for No 34 Smith Square , Westminster , will not reduce customers ' water bills under privatisation rules laid down by the Government itself . |