Example sentences of "business [adv] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A successful £13.1m rights issue in January this year helped offset the £14.2m spent on acquisitions designed to focus the business on over the counter products which now comprise 25pc of group turnover . |
| 2 | For years Caleb conducted his failed building business entirely for the benefit of his assignees , |
| 3 | The Corporals then disappeared to the different section bars which were doing business all over the camp . |
| 4 | She 'd spread my business all round the neighbourhood but she 'd lend a hand without grudging it . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ He recovered after that business down by the river ? |
| 6 | Of course , Sar n't Major James Graham Biggleswade could n't exactly go back to Blighty and expect them to hang out the welcome mat in Fulham , not after that tricky bit of bloody buggering business down in the Falklands — oh , excuuuuse meeee , the Mal -bloody-buggering- vinas — back in ‘ 81 . |
| 7 | ‘ The will was made about a year ago and this is what it amounts to : ‘ The shop premises and stock and all assets pertaining to the business together with the contents of my studio excepting only my tube of Winsor blue to my niece and dear friend Cathy Carne ’ . ’ |
| 8 | He said , ‘ We could discuss business better in the bar . |
| 9 | It is accepted that the corridor effect may well operate in the years immediately after 193 and the current rush of development is , of course , partly designed to offset the loss in employment caused by general economic decline and the likely transfer of business away from the Channel ports to the Tunnel . |
| 10 | Standing committees , especially , tend to conduct their business away from the glare of publicity and the debate tends to be efficient , rational and frequently unpartisan . |
| 11 | ‘ The store would increase traffic along Carmel Road , destroy the important rural Tees conservation area and take business away from the town centre , ’ he told the meeting at All Saints ' Church Hall in Ravensdale Road . |
| 12 | The problems of the switching of business away from the banks is known as disintermediation . |
| 13 | Having set up the functioning New Business teams and created the essential facilities for servicing in the first few months , much further development was still needed to create procedures to service business once on the books . |
| 14 | This second interpretation of the originally American concept of search , and how it could be applied to Britain , sees the business more from the client 's point of view than that of the would-be consultant . |
| 15 | ( 1 ) Make sure that the committee starts its business promptly at the time announced . |
| 16 | Preliminary estimates suggest that insurance claims could reach between £200 million and £300 million after taking into account the damage to buildings , the cost of reconstruction and loss of business both in the City and at Staples Corner . |
| 17 | Under the new arrangement , CNP anticipates taking over the business later in the year . |
| 18 | difficult people to deal with they get much commitments out they 're so frightened they wo n't actually say no , they wo n't point out what is the objection to that and none of us got very much business out of the guy at all . |
| 19 | Others record that she patiently concluded the business then before the court , and went off with a reliable escort to hold a council with Bothwell about the taming of Liddesdale and empower him to hold courts in Hermitage itself . |
| 20 | The structure of the company has been changed to bring the business closer to the customer by moving to a divisional structure , with each divisional director responsible for 150 contracts , and with 18 UK divisions . |
| 21 | Notts had Agana sent off for using bad language but they came closest to winning … that man Paul Reece did the business again with the save of the game … |
| 22 | The shower curtain business previously under the name Associated Products , was relaunched as Dawson Home Fashions to reflect the business ' stronger drive into co-ordinated bathroom products . |
| 23 | SCO claims 28% of all Unixes sold on all platforms against SunSoft 's 25% , though Open Desktop sales remain stuck at around 35% of its business instead of the 60% it envisaged at the launch of Open Desktop 2.0 this time last year . |
| 24 | Stiffer government regulations are persuading American hospitals and drugs firms to stop using small , local laboratories to test medical samples and new drugs , and to give their business instead to the kind of nationally known laboratories acquired by Corning . |
| 25 | Each of the 12 regional electricity companies is free , in theory , to compete for any business anywhere in the country , requiring 1MW |