Example sentences of "a company [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And as the Silver Jubilee drew near , the need to find a company to release the Pistols ' ‘ commemorative ’ recording was becoming acute . |
| 2 | But as soon as a company takes the first tentative steps from data to information , its decision processes , management structure , and even the way its work gets done begin to be transformed . |
| 3 | The tendency of legal doctrine to permit and even require the directors of a company to weigh the interests of groups other than those of the shareholders is closely allied with the claims that a revolution is occurring in the goals which corporate enterprise sets itself and that corporate managers are assuming for their companies ' social responsibilities . |
| 4 | Meanwhile , in Paris , GPT , the £1.8billion quasi-British telecoms combine , was launching a company to exploit the liberalisation of the French market . |
| 5 | Afterwards I learned that the three men were actors , part of a company called The Theatre of the Tube . |
| 6 | In that way , despite the fact that a company lost the capital allowance on the excess on its investment , it gained on the reduction in corporation tax , from — I believe it was — 42 per cent . |
| 7 | It is common practice to use a company to make the acquisition for reasons of limited liability ( where assets and business are being acquired ) , and because the procedure is well understood . |
| 8 | Present rates are running at 9.25% — equivalent to 12.33% gross for a company paying the small companies tax rate . |
| 9 | The committee of the Rugby club have recently decided in favour of holding further talks with a company representing the Argyle Group regarding an offer of £5 million to purchase the site for use as a supermarket and filling station . |
| 10 | Second , the British way of doing things makes it hard for a company to discover the identity of a suspected concert party-goer hiding behind a nominee . |
| 11 | A company following the marketing concept overseas , i.e. trying to satisfy the needs and wants of target markets at a profit , must keep abreast of changes in the cultural environment which affect people 's attitudes and values , and hence , indirectly , their needs and wants of products and services . |
| 12 | The question is how far a company exports the mores of its own country to another ( as the US tends to encourage by devices such as the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act , although this does at least exempt ‘ greasing the palm ’ of minor officials ) . |
| 13 | Geac maintains very conservative accounting standards and often writes off soft or non-cash assets when it buys a company to bring the acquisition 's books in line , he added . |
| 14 | Therefore it may be advantageous to sole traders or partners whose incomes from the business mean that they are taxed under Schedule D at a higher rate to convert the business into a company to minimize the amount of tax to be paid out of the profits made . |
| 15 | ‘ Disclosure ensures that all those with a legitimate interest in a company have the information which they need in order to exercise their rights and responsibilities towards it . |
| 16 | Disclosure ensures that all those with a legitimate interest in a company have the information which they need to exercise their rights and responsibilities towards it . |
| 17 | And until a company has the volumes , it will not be able to get the same good terms from suppliers . |
| 18 | Applying this principle to insider dealing , it could be argued that a company has the right to bring an action against an insider for any profit made by reason of the fact that he has ( i ) abused his fiduciary position by using unpublished price sensitive information which he acquired by virtue of his position as an insider ; or ( ii ) misappropriated corporate property ( it is essential under this head that unpublished price sensitive information be seen as property ; whether it is , is not entirely clear ) . |
| 19 | Under CA 1985 , s425 a company has the power to enter into a compromise or arrangement between itself and its members , or any class of them . |
| 20 | For example , it might seem curious that a member of the RICS could be a director of a commercial company offering a range of services to the public , yet not be permitted to occupy the same position in a company offering the very skill for which he has been trained . |
| 21 | One method for a company to identify the sources of stress is by having a ‘ stress audit ’ , which is a yearly check on ten to 20 per cent of the workforce , using questionnaires together with group and on-to-one interviews , on how they are doing and what problems they have had . |