Example sentences of "company [vb mod] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some electricity companies may be able to offer you a token meter , operated by a token or rechargeable key depending on the type available . |
| 2 | Such influenced companies may be subject to controls on borrowing , party political activity , conditions in contracts and other matters yet to be decided . |
| 3 | ITV companies may be wrong to worry . |
| 4 | Finally , as will be seen below , a restrictive view towards the use of companies may be a disincentive to expansion in so far as the corporate form permits greater flexibility in the raising of outside finance . |
| 5 | More radical action by companies may be required if audit committees are to be the agent of real improvement in standards of corporate governance . |
| 6 | Some companies may be disqualified at this stage , and the remaining companies will then have three weeks to cost their bid . |
| 7 | Where the record companies may be right , however , is in arguing that ending the import ban might not affect prices much anyway . |
| 8 | In economic terms , the continued strength of large companies may be contrasted with the relative ineffectiveness of the anti-monopoly agency . |
| 9 | Companies may be created by the state , by corporations , by companies without corporate personality , and by private individuals whether Hungarian citizens or not . |
| 10 | Private companies may be divided into limited and unlimited companies , and private limited companies can be further subdivided into those limited by shares and those limited by guarantee . |
| 11 | A central element in the charge that companies are ‘ short-termist ’ is that the stock market undervalues projects with a long-term pay off , and therefore that companies may be deterred from investing to the extent that is socially desirable for fear of an adverse effect on the market value of their shares . |
| 12 | In order to boost short-term accounting profits companies may be tempted to cut expenditure on items such as training , research and development , and investment in productive capacity , all of which are essential to a healthy economy , on the basis that they will show a positive return only in the longer term . |
| 13 | Some companies may be reluctant to comment on their experiences for internal reasons . |
| 14 | Payments to the smaller labour and material sub-contractor may be included with the weekly labour-only payments whereas the larger companies may be paid monthly or on a monthly account basis with or without cash discount . |
| 15 | The benefits offered by the AA are not as substantial as they may , at first sight , appear since the free legal representation scheme may be withheld altogether at the discretion of the Association ; the AA will not negotiate in respect of the defence of claims made against members ; the AA can not give advice or act where the Association or any of its subsidiary companies may be involved . |
| 16 | Unlike the previous law , companies may be convicted of offences under this Part of the Act , so that the perpetrators of racial hatred are unable to hide behind their organisation 's corporate nature to avoid personal liability . |
| 17 | In the absence of few if any other UK acquirers with their own distribution outlets in the Abbey National-style , the only hope , apart from closure , for these companies may be to seek out other Aegon-type deals . |
| 18 | Large scale may be necessary to achieve minimum efficient plant size , and the cost of breaking up large companies may be considerable , an argument we develop in Section 17–4 . |
| 19 | Even with inflation as low as five per cent on average , the rate of return reported by individual companies may be substantially distorted . |
| 20 | Consequently offers for unlisted public companies and even for private companies may be of interest to the Panel if the shareholder base is sufficiently wide for minority protection to be relevant . |
| 21 | The large property investment and development companies may be prepared to finance a project by direct loan or guarantee , usually in return for an equity share in the project . |
| 22 | Oh , right , erm , I think Shropshire 's well placed for this sort of work , I remember when Shrewsbury was , was chosen for Christmas Carol , I mean not Stratford , not Chester , not the obvious places that spring to mind , but somewhere different , and I , I think Shropshire may be full of places which are not the obvious place , but which film companies may be able to find if they 're shown in the right direction , so I would certainly propose that we , you know , follow this line . |
| 23 | The government 's Drinking Water Inspectorate suspects that Britain 's 39 water companies may be adopting different standards when it comes to reporting pollution incidents which threaten the safety of domestic supplies . |
| 24 | Such companies may be attractive to a prospective bidder though , as the board will be able to deliver control to the bidder through a shut-out ( see para 8.2 below ) and guarantee a successful offer without abortive costs . |
| 25 | If the single market is to be effective , companies must be able to provide goods or services across state lines without setting up agencies , branches or subsidiaries where this would be superfluous , and without being subjected to more burdensome rules in the host state than are absolutely necessary . |
| 26 | All members of both companies must be com-prehensively informed of all relevant particulars of the other company . |
| 27 | The cost of developing new innovative products is extremely high ; companies must be able to defray the high front-end cost associated with translating inventions into commercially successful products by marketing them as widely as possible around the world . |
| 28 | It is possession of this kind of power that gives rise to a distinct need for justification , and which forms the basis for the claim that companies must be required to act in the public interest . |
| 29 | In assessing the suitability of any credit insurance underwriter , companies must be satisfied with a number of key issues . |
| 30 | The key decisions on diversifying in defence-related companies must be taken by those companies . |