Example sentences of "a company is " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The black and white approach used in this country , where a company is either wholly in the public sector or wholly in the private sector , is not mirrored on the Continent . |
| 2 | Tax rates differ enormously from country to country , and therefore the territory in which taxation is levied on a company is of great importance . |
| 3 | Although a transfer of the ownership of a company is unlikely to be well received by the board , care should be taken before making the decision on how to react ; agreeing to increase national control can be less harmful than ( for instance ) withdrawing from the country altogether . |
| 4 | Rapid changes in the market place put a great strain on top management to ensure a company is keeping pace and is sufficiently aware of what is happening around the world . |
| 5 | RACAL is the company which proves beyond a shadow of doubt that share prices say nothing about what a company is worth . |
| 6 | If a company is to become enduringly successful , says Mr Chandler , it must make two kinds of what he calls ‘ first-mover ’ investments . |
| 7 | Priority , as between successive mortgagees of shares , is determined by the date at which the mortgages were effected , as a company is under no obligation to accept notices by mortgagees . |
| 8 | Shindler will carry out an environmental compliance audit , to establish how well a company is complying with existing legislation . |
| 9 | The simple truth is , though , that you will never be in a better position to arrange suitable contract safeguards than during the period when a company is anxious to secure your services . |
| 10 | Compliance audits to ensure a company is complying with all relevant environmental regulations and company policy . |
| 11 | A company is often in danger of losing the expertise for ever if the expert retires , dies or changes employment . |
| 12 | For the rules apply throughout the Community , and many of the company law and competition rules apply irrespective of whether or not a company is engaged in interstate transactions . |
| 13 | In the UK , a company is viewed as a creature that is answerable to , and for the benefit of , the shareholders . |
| 14 | The most usual form of joint venture is a jointly owned company whose activities and sphere of operations are defined by a series of agreements and industrial property licences , but a company is not essential if the agreements between the parties result in a separate , jointly controlled business entity . |
| 15 | A going concern qualification on a company is an assertion made at a point in time about the distribution of future cash flows associated with the bundle of assets that comprise that company |
| 16 | FRED 2 also proposes that the policy adopted should be disclosed , and draws attention to the requirement to apply the normal rules governing the recoverability of assets in those circumstances in which a company is contemplating the recognition of a deferred tax asset in respect of a provision of post-retirement obligations . |
| 17 | A company is in the process of making compulsory redundancies . |
| 18 | ‘ I am appalled , ’ he told ACCOUNTANCY , ‘ that when a company is trading £0.5m in the red , when it has failed to file its accounts , and when it has been reported to a DTI Minister , there is still no failsafe mechanism to pick the matter up . ’ |
| 19 | This often occurs where a company is paying significant dividends from profits earned overseas . |
| 20 | The incentive to reclaim the overpayment is lessened if a company is lucky enough not to need the cash immediately . |
| 21 | In addition to normal responsibilities , which include making new investments , approaching new potential customers and keeping existing customers happy , Mr Queen says that they have been trying to educate the professional community to recognise when a company is going to need more working capital . |
| 22 | A company is allowed to carry on business in the usual way until steps are taken to enforce the charge . |
| 23 | Section 123(1) of the Insolvency Act 1986 provides that a company is deemed unable to pay its debts if a creditor ( by assignment or otherwise ) to whom the company is indebted in a sum exceeding £750 then due has served on the company , by leaving it at the company 's registered office , a written demand ( in the prescribed form ) requiring the company to pay the sum so due and the company has for three weeks thereafter neglected to pay the sum or to secure or compound for it to the reasonable satisfaction of the creditor . |
| 24 | Two other ways in which a company is deemed unable to pay its debts must be mentioned : |
| 25 | A key element in the constitution of a company is the notion that all members of the board are responsible to the company as a whole . |
| 26 | However , the value of a company is based on more than just short-term profitability . |
| 27 | It should need no stressing that even today , when more and more actors ( those in work ) are aiming at the regular working-day/mortgage belt , affairs , amours and just plain sex inside a company is not unknown . |
| 28 | A search will reveal if a company is carrying a heavy burden of debt , for example , but remember , this does n't mean it 's about to go into liquidation . |
| 29 | Unless a company is progressing the whole time , it is , in fact , moving backwards . |
| 30 | At the end of the day a company is no more ( but even more importantly , no less ) than the sum of the people and the skills that comprise it . |