Example sentences of "firm had [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These firms had either splintered off from American companies — as in the case of Norman Broadbent — or they had been set up on their own from scratch , in a variety of forms such as MSL , EAL , Tyzack , Alexander Hughes , Goddard Kay Rogers , John Stork , Merton and Whitehead Mann , to name but a few . |
| 2 | Moreover , in 1973 one deputy minister of foreign trade described the deficiencies in Soviet marketing as follows : ‘ While we were only beginning to understand that before entering the marketplace we had to study it , determining which machinery could or could not be supplied where , as well as how to organise the work involved , capitalist firms had already created a whole science to deal with the question , coordinating production , advertising and commercial activity into a single discipline ’ ( N. Smeliakov , Novy mir , 12 ( Dec. ) 1973 , 216–17 ) . |
| 3 | Michael Jensen and Kevin Murphy of Harvard Business School found , in a 1990 study , that the average pay of chief executives of big American firms had barely caught up , in real terms , with what similar bosses received in the 1930s . |
| 4 | Moreover , the privatised firms had seldom showed the expected gains . |
| 5 | Mr Erlund said the firm had already initiated a number of action plans and streamlining measures but ‘ these can only alleviate some of the mentioned negative external conditions ’ . |
| 6 | The CAJEC document , issued last November ( see ACCOUNTANCY , December 1992 , p 11 ) proposed the rotation of audit partners , not only because it would help avoid situations that could lead outsiders to question the auditor 's objectivity , but also because it would give the client the benefit of a fresh , objective scrutiny and new ideas without losing the benefit of the knowledge of the business that the audit firm had already acquired . |
| 7 | Speaking at the latest in a series of milk producer meetings , Alan Wiseman said that the firm had just exchanged contracts on a nine-acre site . |
| 8 | Neither Mr. Lawrence of W. H. Hopkins & Co. , not anyone else from that firm had ever communicated with her regarding the sale of the property to the Hammonds . |
| 9 | He masterminded the sale of foreign rights to John Hunt 's The Ascent of Everest , the biggest book the firm had ever published , to publishers in 26 countries . |
| 10 | The firm had never said , ‘ Well , we 're discharging an effluent containing zinc . ’ |
| 11 | It was a Stavanger tradition to finance their ships by careful management and frugal living for themselves , and through the difficult years between the wars , the firm had never had an overdraft . |
| 12 | This woman 's firm had totally ripped it off for one of the midmarket youth fashion houses . |