Example sentences of "in [adj -er] firms " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a small practice this could involve the whole office : in larger firms individual line managers should regularly brief their own subordinates on all matters relevant to the work of the group including information generated by the partnership for general consumption . |
| 2 | They worked , however , in larger firms and in each the senior partner ( with whom I did not work ) had large commercial and industrial clients . |
| 3 | Until the early 1960s temporary and seasonal labour was used to supplement the workforce , but thereafter the relative share of temporary labour employed in larger firms began to decline as the role of external subcontractors increased . |
| 4 | Involuntary discharges through bankruptcy are though much less likely to be significant in larger firms where labour turnover is much more related to age . |
| 5 | Capital then emerges again more efficient , but concentrated in larger firms the successful absorbing the weak . |
| 6 | One aspect of this size function seems to be that the nenko system is surviving in larger firms while it is being eroded in the smaller ones ( Tachibanaki , 1982 ) . |
| 7 | The Disabled Persons ( Employment ) Acts 1944 and 1958 These make provision for the employment of a quota of disabled persons in larger firms ( with more than 20 employees ) . |
| 8 | In larger firms the matter is never quite so straightforward . |
| 9 | So much so , that practices of any size will usually need to recruit their own in-house accountants , not infrequently in larger firms giving them partner status as " directors of finance " or similarly impressive titles . |
| 10 | In larger firms , the latter is now commonly used as a stepping stone to the former . |
| 11 | Re-writing the partnership agreement will not be a practicable exercise in larger firms , although in certain circumstances it may become necessary , eg if in the course of negotiations with a new partner some hitherto unsuspected inadequacy is revealed . |
| 12 | Except in larger firms , unanimity might be thought to be desirable in the interests of preventing further splits in the firm , and even where a majority decision is available , a genuine attempt to achieve unanimity should always be made : save in any but the clearest case , exercise of the power by a permitted majority without consultation with the remaining partners would be regarded as being in bad faith . |
| 13 | We would give tax allowances on R&D partnerships to encourage large firms to take a minority equity stake in smaller firms where a smaller partner is primarily a research contractor . |
| 14 | Although there are specialist personnel and industrial relations roles , we found that in smaller firms the negotiations with trade unions were carried by a very few managers . |
| 15 | A further consequence of enterprise-based unions is that , although they permit a high degree of rank-and-file participation in decision-making , they nevertheless fail to organise large proportions of workers in smaller firms where unionism is discouraged by paternalistic employment relationships . |
| 16 | As we shall see the unequal power relations between parent companies and their subcontractors does mean that the burden of adjusting output in a recession can result in smaller firms going out of business . |
| 17 | As we shall see the unequal power relations between parent companies and their subcontractors does mean that the burden of adjusting output in a recession can result in smaller firms going out of business . |
| 18 | The CBI is also calling on the Government to establish a network of local investment companies designed to encourage equity investment in smaller firms . |
| 19 | It was thought by some that too great a burden might be placed on principals in smaller firms or on sole practitioners if such a proposal were made mandatory , and that either the ‘ net ’ of suitable signatories should be widened to include assistant solicitors or Fellows of ILEX , or that the category of undertaking to which the ‘ rule ’ might apply should exclude those of a routine or non-financial nature . |