Example sentences of "[noun] companies [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ultimately , this enabled Sony to make huge inroads into US electronics companies ' sales and profits . |
| 2 | Socialists line drug companies ' pockets |
| 3 | The whole lesson of the events of the past 20 years is that doctors can not be re-educated , so long as their training is drug-based their journals utterly dependent upon the revenue from the drug companies advertisements , and their leisure activities agreeably subsidised by the drug companies ' slush funds . |
| 4 | Health services are lining drug companies ' pockets |
| 5 | Clinton fears affecting drug companies ' shares |
| 6 | It is hardly the drug companies ' fault that the purchasers do not know their strengths — or their minds . |
| 7 | Problems similar to those in Amazonia have been experienced in Costa Rica , but concern about forest demise stimulated in part by lumber companies ' realisation that a resource vital to their enterprise is rapidly diminishing , has resulted in the establishment of a series of national parks within which local industry ( such as small-scale farming and logging ) is encouraged ( Simons 1988 ) . |
| 8 | The combination of repossessions and building companies ' inability to sell their newly built homes has resulted in an estimated 200,000 properties standing unoccupied . |
| 9 | Erm , David , that really er is about er four point four , the parallel activity necessary sister companies er to erm make sure that the same message is getting across , and that whatever they are saying to the continental is actually supporting our attempts to er erm become the preferred supplier . |
| 10 | A report from consultancy Ovum Ltd forecasts that by the end of the decade nearly a third of telecommunications companies ' revenues will come from intelligent network services . |
| 11 | I will not make a Second Reading speech now , but simply say that a safety culture built around individuals and the operating companies ' involvement and responsibilities is the only way to ensure the safest possible working environment . |
| 12 | But the ITV companies ' disinclination to schedule sport is more critical . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Teletext — Ceefax and the ITV companies ' Oracle — is a fairly big success . |
| 15 | This change would also break the ITV companies ' monopoly over advertising revenue ( a change much favoured by the Peacock Committee and advertisers , amongst others ) . |
| 16 | Currently , major record companies ' A&R departments are a lot more efficient than musicians realize . |
| 17 | The accounting for royalties by a music publisher , for a world-wide or territory-by-territory contract , is very similar to record companies ' methods . |
| 18 | I am sure I am not alone in lamenting the major record companies ' gross neglect of Earl Wild 's pianism in recent years . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | This is not the place to outline these in detail but , to put it simply , in the late 1970s the record industry faced a ‘ crisis ’ ( a stagnation in record sales after twenty years of expansion ) brought on by two simultaneous developments : on the one hand , an economic recession which hit particularly hard the most important sector of the record buying market , working-class youth ; on the other hand , technological developments in the leisure industry which meant either new sorts of competition for people 's leisure resources ( home computers and video recorders become as significant in young people 's lives as record players , for instance ) or disrupted record companies ' profit-making routines ( home taping thus became the industry 's chief bogey ) . |
| 21 | The record companies ' mouthpiece , the BPI , told us : CDs cost less in the UK than many European countries . |
| 22 | Devaluation benefits will coincide with a recovery in the US economy and provide UK companies ' most tangible benefits from sterling 's devaluation . |
| 23 | Each controversial issue is examined by leading experts and illustrated by extracts from major UK companies ' recent accounts . |
| 24 | And there 's been quite a bit of success in in that area both of the newspaper companies er , are doing better than last year and er Longmans for instance expect er expect their operating cash flow erm their working capital rather to be lower this year than last year by by year end . |
| 25 | The water companies ' average prospective price earnings ratio is around five . |
| 26 | Following a recent demonstration at the City stockbroking firm James Capel ( where water companies ' finance is influenced ) , the SAS is now buying shares in the British water companies in order to attend their AGMs and have a say . |
| 27 | The Water Companies ' Association was obviously pleased with Mr Byatt 's performance . |
| 28 | From the water companies ' point of view , the advantage of indirect systems is that they reduce the effects on the mains of heavy demand ( first thing in the morning , for example ) and that they keep most of the householder 's water system separate from the mains supply . |
| 29 | The Council 's comments followed the issue of a consultation paper from the Office of Water Services on how households should pay for water after 2000 , when the water companies ' right to use domestic rates as a basis for charging ends . |
| 30 | 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 . |