Example sentences of "[to-vb] business " in BNC.
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| 1 | Flag-carrier SAS has extended its ‘ Fly SAS-Stay SAS ’ scheme to provide business class passengers with free and subsidised hotel rooms at Scandinavian gateways . |
| 2 | The company intends to provide business services in London via point-to-point fibre optic lines at all levels from simple ring down circuits to high capacity links of 2Mbps , 8Mbps , 34Mbps and 155Mbps . |
| 3 | If Grimbergen is closed , and developed as a residential area , or even worse , if factories are built there , the loss of a convenient airfield to attract business and executive aircraft will be far reaching to the ‘ hub of Europe ’ , ie Brussels . |
| 4 | Sun has also bundled a one-year on-site warranty into the system to attract business users . |
| 5 | Mr Hunt made a good effort to attract business to the state , but his political reforms floundered . |
| 6 | Unlike most of the other research reactors from which Dounreay is hoping to attract business , the Indian reactor bought its fuel from Dounreay initially . |
| 7 | A small firm in a suburban area where solicitors abound will , in times of recession , of high interest rates and high rents , be desperate to attract business from wherever it can find it ; and that means spreading the word among potential clients . |
| 8 | To attract business , an exchange has to meet participants ' business needs in the same way as any other market . |
| 9 | Other methods of stimulating volume might include controlling trading hours ( by concentrating liquidity in a particular time frame , as on the metal and cocoa rings ) or by lengthening the hours , to attract business from other time zones . |
| 10 | However , all of those concerned with public-policy formulation agree that the right way forward is to encourage business practices which minimize these conflicts . |
| 11 | The scheme , which is administered on behalf of the Department of National Heritage by ABSA ( The Association for Business Sponsorship of the Arts ) , seeks to encourage business sponsorship of arts organisations by providing financial awards to arts organisations to add to funds raised through business sponsorship . |
| 12 | GDA has achieved significant results in these areas : attracting major inward investment , developing programmes to encourage business start-ups , and helping existing companies adapt successfully to new technologies , management practices and export markets . |
| 13 | The project , established in tandem with a similar effort mounted by the US Administration 's Environmental Protection Agency , aims to encourage business to monitor its entire production process rather than looking for piecemeal solutions . |
| 14 | It calls on the government to : ( i ) provide financial incentives ( such as exemption from value-added tax for energy-saving equipment ) ; ( ii ) intervene to stabilize energy prices ( so as to encourage business and industry to make long-term investments in energy conservation ) ; and ( iii ) introduce specific energy-saving measures ( such as creating a large differential between the prices of diesel and petrol ) . |
| 15 | The new association has four main aims : to encourage business to get more involved in helping to address environmental problems , to promote the exchange of experience , to establish action plans , and to defend the business point of view relating to environmental issues . |
| 16 | David worked closely on the school 's Scribbles project , which produced headed notepaper and stationery as part of a nationwide project to encourage business development . |
| 17 | A £1.5m scheme of cash incentives to encourage business development , expected to attract £165,000 from Europe ; |
| 18 | It is intended that more trains will be run and the season extended in order to increase business revenue from all possible sources . |
| 19 | Just to show how busy things get , Juan and his colleagues recently took part in a 24-hour intensive workshop on looking at a strategy to increase business in Japan . |
| 20 | Competitive advantage can be gained from exploiting information at the strategic level so as to increase business efficiency or to highlight areas in the organisation which are particularly strong or weak , and thus lead to new business strategies . |
| 21 | Wide area networks , which may have been installed initially to link the geographically remote branches of a company , are increasingly expanding to enable the company to transact business with its customers and suppliers electronically — worldwide . |
| 22 | As well as linking branches of a company , WANs offer the opportunity to transact business electronically with other companies . |
| 23 | Gradually over the years the term has come to mean the minimum number of members who must be present if the meeting is to transact business . |
| 24 | In the event of an insurance company which is a party to the Agreement withdrawing therefrom or ceasing to transact business , it will under the terms of the Agreement , notify individual bank branches/organisations branches from whom they hold notices of interest where that insurance cover has been terminated . |
| 25 | Following de Klerk 's visit to Nigeria in April [ see p. 38851 ] the Nigerian Foreign Ministry announced on May 22 that Nigerians were free to transact business with South Africa . |
| 26 | Willing buyers and sellers should be able to transact business at prices that reflect supply and demand . |
| 27 | Are you allowed to transact business at the door Paul ? |
| 28 | Had he been one , he would know that a large part of the duties of anyone holding my office is to meet business men and their representatives to discuss their problems and concerns . |
| 29 | The existing programmes will not stand still , set in tablets of stone , but will need to improve continuously and evolve to meet business needs . |
| 30 | The principal can also give assistance to the agent by helping in the commercial negotiations between the agent and important customers , helping with special discounts or credit arrangements in order to secure business . |