Example sentences of "business [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 The Group says the results are due to better business strategies over the last three years , new models , better use of plant and good labour relations .
2 Managerial business strategies in the North-West , 1900-1980
3 She was still exhausted from the night before , shattered from trying to keep up her bravado with Steve , trying not to let slip what she knew and trying to sound enthusiastic over Steve 's business plans for the future which she knew with a certainty she wanted no part of .
4 LWT was bulging with production talent , headed by Michael Peacock , one of the BBC 's golden boys ; performance talent , with David Frost a star ( and an important shareholder ) ; and a string of business tycoons on the board .
5 Business experts in the town are now increasingly worried about Swindon 's future without a development focus .
6 Will the Minister use his powers to enable local authorities to provide houses for homeless people , whether through local authorities or housing associations , jobs for redundant construction workers , and new business contracts for the building companies which are going bankrupt ?
7 ( vi ) all business contracts for the hire or barter of goods , and for the supply of labour and materials .
8 Category of contract : business contracts for the hire , rental , lease or bailment of goods .
9 Category of contract : business contracts for the barter of goods , for the supply of labour and materials , and for the hire , lease rental or bailment of goods .
10 Category of contract : business contracts for the barter of goods , for the supply of labour and materials , and for the hire , lease rental or bailment of goods .
11 Despite this local work , Fothergill adds his voice to the current vociferous debate , overseen by Teesside Chamber of Commerce , about keeping business contracts in the region .
12 Institutions engaged in higher education are now expected to be much more aggressively entrepreneurial , and they are also being invited to help their students to acquire marketing and business skills through the Enterprise in Higher Education Initiative .
13 To take privatisation further , and bring private business skills to the aid of the public sector .
14 Thus TWW had to compete not only with the mundane but necessary business skills of the Harlech consortium but with the presence of famous Welsh names from the arts — Richard Burton , Stanley Baker , Geraint Evans — and the authority of Lord Harlech himself , a former minister and Ambassador to the Kennedy White House .
15 Mr Fitzpatrick had been looking forward for months to the holiday with his son , who attended business meetings in the US capital .
16 When Nicolae Ceauşescu first arrived in the city , Bucharest contained a dazzling array of buildings of all styles : examples of its older Balkan heritage could be found side by side with grandiose business palaces in the style of Central Europe 's Griinderjahre of the 1870s , with Art Deco and Cubist designs around the corner .
17 We sketch briefly the legal definition of casual working and go on to consider the special features of certain business operations within the hotels and catering industry which explain why casual workers are to be found there .
18 These gloomy conclusions are reached in a study of small businesses and their use of new technology by Christine Edwards of Kingston Polytechnic , who interviewed small business owner-managers on the process of adopting and implementing new technology and the benefits and difficulties experienced .
19 Tutors may wish to explore the fact that in many cases these are not included in business accounts on the basis of materiality and cost/benefit of keeping track of them .
20 The National Westminster bank , for example , opened 76,000 new small business accounts in the first six months of this year , which suggests a robust small firms sector .
21 A joint declaration , " Partnership for the 1990s " , was signed on Jan. 30 , which pledged co-operation on nuclear weapons and nuclear materials and in defence matters ; the UK would lift the 18-month freeze on export credit insurance for business projects in the former Soviet Union , and would continue to advocate Russia 's membership of the IMF .
22 Government officials committed themselves to ensuring that there would be no net loss of US wetlands and expressed the hope that the proposals would end the stalemate between environmentalist and business groups on the wetlands issue .
23 The following documents , which are available for inspection during normal business hours at the registered office of the Company on any weekday ( Saturdays and public holidays excluded ) from the date of this Notice until the date of the Annual General Meeting , will also be available for inspection at the place of the Annual General Meeting from 12.30 pm on the day of the Meeting until the conclusion of the Meeting :
24 Copies of directors ' service contracts of more than one year 's duration must be available for inspection during normal business hours at the registered office from the date of notice of the annual general meeting until the date of the meeting and must be made available for at least 15 minutes prior to and during the meeting .
25 A statement of directors ' share transactions and copies of their service contracts are available for inspection during normal business hours at the registered office from the date of this notice until the date of the annual general meeting and will be available at the place of the meeting for fifteen minutes prior to and during the meeting .
26 The third and final phase of the project will be devoted to the construction of an interactive training package which will be used to alert business personnel to the kinds of problems they are likely to encounter , the reasons why people on the continent behave differently , and the most effective approaches to take when doing business on the continent .
27 This not only wastes time and money in sending the executive abroad but also business contacts in the foreign country can lose confidence in the company and valuable business ventures may be lost .
28 Each registration covers all the business activities of the registered person .
29 In this example , whilst the market has to some extent been created by the regulators , the safety technology has been transferred mainly through the business activities of the safety consultants .
30 the Network member submitting the suggestions has provided full corporate details to the initiating member ( ie full corporate name of prospective purchaser , address , telephone number and name of senior office to contact ) , a brief summary of the current business activities of the prospective purchaser , and reasons why the prospective purchaser might be interested .
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