Example sentences of "as a business [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In practice the price obtained will be less than the generating cost , so as a business proposition it is a non-starter . |
| 2 | This ‘ business ’ characteristic does not require that he should regularly carry on business as an agent but simply that on the occasion in question he was acting as a business proposition . |
| 3 | Note in the last example there was a similar situation except that in that case the car was being used exclusively for the business and in our answer we classified it as a business asset . |
| 4 | I could not resist a walk around the Harbour at Castlebay in an attempt to resurrect memories of my visit in 1973 as a Business Development Officer . |
| 5 | E-mail as a business communication network poses some issues for the records manager , user and lawyer and , because implementing any solutions will lie in their hands , for the computing managers . |
| 6 | And does anybody now doubt that , as our sister publication , Computergram International , has been arguing since its foundation in 1984 , the inadequacies of Unix as a business operating system are irrelevant . |
| 7 | ( This is no doubt in some way concerned with the employee 's honesty. ) 2 The nature of the information itself Information will only be protected if it can properly be classed as a business secret or as material which , while not properly described as a business secret is , in all the circumstances , of such a highly confidential nature as to require the same protection as a business secret eo nomine . |
| 8 | ( This is no doubt in some way concerned with the employee 's honesty. ) 2 The nature of the information itself Information will only be protected if it can properly be classed as a business secret or as material which , while not properly described as a business secret is , in all the circumstances , of such a highly confidential nature as to require the same protection as a business secret eo nomine . |
| 9 | The restrictive covenant cases demonstrate that a covenant will not be upheld on the basis of the status of the information which might be disclosed by a former employee if he is not restrained , unless it can be regarded as a business secret or the equivalent of a business secret . |
| 10 | 3 Whether the employer impressed on the employee the confidentiality of the information Thus , though an employer can not prevent the use or disclosure merely by telling the employee that certain information is confidential , the attitude of the employer towards the information provides evidence that may assist in determining whether or not the information can properly be regarded as a business secret . |
| 11 | It covers ICI policies , national and EEC legislation , ‘ Green politics , ’ management techniques for improving environmental performance and the environment as a business issue . |
| 12 | That organisations as diverse as shipbuilding , meat processors , training agencies and hotels saw fit to participate must be encouraging and some degree of recognition that marketing as a business philosophy is making some impact on the Scottish psyche . |
| 13 | For example , para 10(d) on p 12 states that the selling of shares is ‘ normally a business activity but exempt from VAT ’ and that ‘ if a charity becomes actively involved in buying and selling shares … that will be regarded as a business acitivity ’ . |
| 14 | However , as members of the Channel Tunnel Research Unit and others have pointed out , the longer term dynamic effect may be much greater if the image of Kent as a business location undergoes a transformation as the result of related investment in supportive infrastructure , especially transport . |
| 15 | But there is little doubt that charter-train profit can be read in seven-figure sums rather than six and that as a business venture , InterCity has not done badly at all . |
| 16 | To own a boarding house required capital in the first instance and to maintain the boarding house as a business venture in the early years the husband had to work as a taxi driver or have a part-time job during the winter . |
| 17 | However , it must be remembered that the technology providers see this as a business venture and it is therefore important to establish intellectual property rights at the outset and to produce an adequate return on any investment . |
| 18 | As a business man , Jack had all of you licked . |
| 19 | When asked if he sees himself as a business man or a sailor , he replies without demur that he is ‘ a businessman ’ , but he also professes , a touch pugnaciously , to being ‘ a socialist ’ and believes that opportunities for the ordinary person to take part in ocean racing have become even fewer since large scale sponsorship . |
| 20 | Among other things you might get his view of the bookshop and of his father-in-law as a business man . ’ |
| 21 | By the time he had completed his forty-second plate he was forced to face up to his inadequacies as a business man . |
| 22 | Eventually the north and south works will be redeveloped as a business park , creating up to 5,000 new jobs . |
| 23 | ‘ Think of them as a business suit , ’ Trent said . |
| 24 | As an organization of businessmen , the CBI — naturally perhaps — looked on the inner city primarily as a business opportunity . |
| 25 | I do n't call these er interviews I call them discussions because they are self employed positions and er I seem them as a business opportunity rather than a job quote job . |
| 26 | Share prices began to rise steeply in 1927 as people with money to spare increasingly saw the stock market as a gambling casino rather than as a business centre . |
| 27 | Zurich 's importance as a business centre grew , as did its reputation as a place of refuge , so that it rivalled even that of Geneva . |
| 28 | Company contributions are fully deductible as a business allowance against Corporation Tax . |
| 29 | and things like that and it only , it 's only become and really it 's only actually set up as a business school quite recently as well , I mean what in the past ten years or something |
| 30 | If you reduce the seating capacity below 12 then you will be liable for 10% car tax and repaying the 15% VAT which as a business user you have reclaimed , as in the UK the 12 seater is classed as a commercial vehicle and the 10 seater is not . |