Example sentences of "business it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shortly after the commission 's report was made public , Alan Soloman , a computer virus expert , invited hackers , and those whose business it is to keep them out , to a tournament which will test the expertise of both sides . |
| 2 | That depends only on its future earning power ( that is , how well it is run ) and on how risky is the sort of business it is in . |
| 3 | Kylie has managed to maintain her sense of humour because she more than anyone understands that in her business it is better to be written about than to be ignored . |
| 4 | I have sat with her for hours spooning broth into her and a tedious business it is to make sure any of it goes down . |
| 5 | As Lord Diplock pointed out in 1981 , on the one hand it constitutes ‘ a major invasion of privacy ’ , while on the other it is an important weapon available to the police and the security services , whose business it is to maintain law and order and protect national security . |
| 6 | Before a company can exist or do business it must obtain a certificate of incorporation from the Registrar of Companies ( in Cardiff ) . |
| 7 | ‘ My life is hard indeed ’ — the life of the leader of a feudal host , whose business it was to defend and protect his followers ; the ruler of fair France , la douce France , whose business it was to protect and govern his country ; the emperor of Christendom , whose business it was to maintain the fortress of Christian Europe and to expand its borders . |
| 8 | ‘ My life is hard indeed ’ — the life of the leader of a feudal host , whose business it was to defend and protect his followers ; the ruler of fair France , la douce France , whose business it was to protect and govern his country ; the emperor of Christendom , whose business it was to maintain the fortress of Christian Europe and to expand its borders . |
| 9 | ‘ My life is hard indeed ’ — the life of the leader of a feudal host , whose business it was to defend and protect his followers ; the ruler of fair France , la douce France , whose business it was to protect and govern his country ; the emperor of Christendom , whose business it was to maintain the fortress of Christian Europe and to expand its borders . |
| 10 | For the local business it 's the business |
| 11 | As a business it 's as circumscribed as any other , with A&R departments answerable to what Jeff Young describes as ‘ men in grey suits ’ shouting , ‘ Bottom line ! |
| 12 | If you are going to stay in business it is important that more comes in than goes out . |
| 13 | From my own experience and that of others , I knew that books about miscarriages of justice were always published in a kind of limbo where they remained for months if not years , totally ignored by those authorities whose business it was to evaluate and act on them . |
| 14 | And in the news business it is generally reckoned it could n't have gone to a nicer bloke . |
| 15 | Do you suppose there 's anything about a minister 's private life , particularly a minister in that Department , which is n't known to those people whose business it is to discover and document this kind of potential scandal ? |
| 16 | Thus Spencer Stuart has not been unduly dependent on the multinational business it originally brought with it , and has many loyal British corporate clients on its books . |
| 17 | As a strongly international business it is more appropriate that it appears beside the Big Four rather than with the British consultancies . |
| 18 | The figures imply that up to 80% of Sun Microsystems Inc 's total revenue was derived from workstation sales alone in 1992 — though Sun claims to have sold some 10,000 server systems in the last year or so — while IBM Corp 's $668m share is only around a third of the business it claims to have done on the RS/6000 line over that period . |
| 19 | Of the 1,000 subscribers , around 60% were customers of the original Cognito service , but the company says that the 40% of new business it has attracted puts it ahead of its business plan schedule . |
| 20 | The figures imply that up to 80% of Sun Microsystems Inc 's total revenue was derived from workstation sales alone in 1992 — when Sun claims to have sold some 10,000 server systems in the last year or so — while IBM Corp 's $668m share is only around a third of the business it claims to have done on the RS/6000 line over that period . |
| 21 | He had a distaste for violence , but in his business it was a necessity . |
| 22 | A few weeks ago it auctioned off a lot of its furniture and fixtures as unnecessary to the kind of business it would be doing . |
| 23 | Solbourne reckons its solutions compare very favourably with Sequent 's Intel Corp-based SMP systems , and is making aggressive noises about the amount of business it hopes to win . |
| 24 | What the alternative to today 's degenerate and evil society is presents no immediate problem : women are once again hidden from sight , or married ones have their hair shorn ; thieves are once again punished by having hands or legs cut off ; alcohol , or whatever else is ritually prohibited , is banned ; and Koran , or Bible , or whatever constitutes the authoritative compendium or eternal wisdom , provides complete practical and moral guidance on all subjects , as interpreted by those whose business it is to do so . |
| 25 | Even if IBM has a relatively weak market share in the burgeoning software business it is still very comfortably number one ; and while some of the Japanese giants and European champions occupy high positions in the software league , the huge array of US software insurgents ( led by such companies as Lotus , Microsoft and Sun ) has no equivalent elsewhere . |
| 26 | ‘ But in order to carry on business it is necessary that the reputation of such a corporation should be protected , and therefore in the case of libel or slander it must have a remedy by action . |
| 27 | But in order to carry on business it is necessary that the reputation of such a corporation should be protected , and therefore in the case of libel or slander it must have a remedy by action . |
| 28 | ‘ Escape ’ from hard times is a cultural necessity and the harder the times the more fantastic and precarious and desperate a business it becomes . |
| 29 | I was a partner in his business , and a dirty business it was , too . |
| 30 | Beyond the fact that most cases are likely to arise in the context of trade or business it is not apparent why liability should be confined to cases where those activities are interfered with . |