Example sentences of "company ['s] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many industrialists concede that a large part of the responsibility for British companies ' lame performance must lie with management . |
| 2 | Auditors will be able to comply with the Cadbury recommendation that they report on directors ' statements with regard to companies ' internal controls but only if there is clear guidance for both sides on a number of scope , technical and reporting issues , an analysis by the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales concluded . |
| 3 | The FoE survey , based on water companies ' unpublished returns to the Drinking Water Inspectorate , showed that 14.5 million people received drinking water breaching the standard for pesticides and 3.5 million had supplies containing nitrate above the legal limit . |
| 4 | As regards BS 5750 , s 401 gives a similar relief for companies ' pre-trading expenditure incurred ( as for the sole traders and partnerships ) within five years of commencement , and this section ought to validate such expenditure for tax purposes . |
| 5 | On the other hand , the openings in companies ' legal departments are much fewer than in private practice ; and in any case you should not consider articles in commerce or industry unless you are keen to make this your career . |
| 6 | Britain 's manufacturing base is declining not just because the Conservative party seems to care so little about it but because of so many companies ' wilful refusal to respond to changing market signals . |
| 7 | ACRI and Cray will convert applications for both companies ' parallel computer systems — Cray is also designing parallel machines around the Alpha RISC . |
| 8 | Advanced Computer Research — ACRI — and Cray will also collaborate to convert and optimise applications codes on both companies ' parallel computer systems — Cray is also designing parallel machines around the Alpha RISC . |
| 9 | The end of the bland three-line statement and of the understated ‘ subject to ’ comment comes into effect for companies ' annual accounts with year-ends on or after 30 September with the introduction of the Auditing Practices Board 's first statement of auditing standards . |
| 10 | Each controversial issue is examined by leading experts and illustrated by extracts from major UK companies ' recent accounts . |
| 11 | Inspired by the success of Film On Four and the ITV companies ' recent forays into film-making ( like Granada 's My Left Foot ) , the BBC has finally taken the plunge into the feature-film market , in partnership with Palace Pictures and British Screen . |
| 12 | However , allied to the improvement in companies ' financial position has been an increase in large companies ' liquidity ratios , to their highest level since the end of 1987 ( though this may have been partly at the cost of the liquidity of smaller companies , because of trade credit effect ) . |
| 13 | Company liquidations have increased more sharply recently than at the same stage of the last recession , when defaults significantly lagged the deterioration in companies ' financial position , but corporate indebtedness has been much higher both at the outset of the recession and subsequently . |
| 14 | There also needs to be much clearer reference to the limitations in the audit process and , in particular , in relation to collusive or immaterial fraud and sudden changes in companies ' financial positions , as these are also fundamental to the expectations gap . |
| 15 | Dealers have talked their companies ' financial administrators into giving them an advance , then have left . |
| 16 | What disclosure should be made in the respective companies ' financial statements ? |
| 17 | But the change will further enhance the power of companies ' sponsoring brokers , who are already frequently the only analysts providing research on these illiquid shares . |
| 18 | Export factoring has been held back by gaps in the companies ' international networks . |
| 19 | This section is therefore designed to show how the companies scan their environments to identify these fundamental and broad-ranging changes that might have an impact on the companies ' future outlook . |
| 20 | Even prudent companies ' reasonable expectations have been destroyed by the Government 's actions . |
| 21 | And the trouble , at least in the regulators ' view , is the companies ' casual attitude towards fraud . |
| 22 | It investigates the effects of Quality Circles on Management style and attitudes , how they fit into companies ' overall strategies towards improvement and innovation and how they help the present organisation to work more efficiently . |
| 23 | It does not set individual drug prices , but rather limits companies ' overall profits to 25 per cent . |
| 24 | The purchaser will use its reasonable endeavours to obtain the release of any personal guarantees made by the Directors in respect of ABC and its subsidiary companies ' existing obligations relating to the business of ABC and subsidiaries ( which after investigating such guarantees and terms of release it agrees to obtain the release of ) and pending such release will indemnify the Directors against any claims under such guarantees . |
| 25 | But it questions whether pollution levels have truly fallen in that period , since the figures are based on companies ' revised interpretations of what they are required to report . |
| 26 | To provide a national and worldwide news service , the ITA set up Independent Television News , under the companies ' joint ownership . |
| 27 | The rating agency says that the action follows Philips ' agreement to sell to Matsushita Electric Industrial Co its 35% stake in the companies ' joint venture . |
| 28 | Branson 's suspicion that the chart had been ‘ fixed ’ to prevent the embarrassing spectacle of an anti-royalist song reaching number one during Jubilee week was lent weight by an anonymous telephone call , alleging that the British Phonographic Industry ( the record companies ' professional body ) and the BBC had colluded to keep the record off the top of the charts . |
| 29 | A pro-forma statement of the combined companies ' net assets was £294m . |
| 30 | Does he agree that there is an important role in publicly quoted company board rooms for non-executive directors to ensure that companies ' long-term interests are reflected in management agreements with senior executives ? |