Example sentences of "of business " in BNC.
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| 1 | This so impressed the then president of the Canadian branch of the Anglo Jewish Association that he invited the young man , scarcely more than a boy , to be its secretary ; the start of a highly successful and very wide range of business and charitable interests . |
| 2 | This emphasised not only the importance of the distinct types of business but the difference between the businesses and the operations . |
| 3 | It is a matter of history that as the 1980s drew to a close , a few extra HSTs to cope with the unprecedented levels of business by now on offer would have been very welcome . |
| 4 | This enabled InterCity to introduce additional HSTs to Aberdeen , a pair of business services to Hull and Cleethorpes and an entirely new service The Highland Chieftain between King 's Cross and Inverness with a journey time of seven hours . |
| 5 | To cope with its new level of business the Great Western has a fleet of thirty-one supplemented by some sets of locomotive-hauled stock . |
| 6 | The six-day Royal Scotsman promoted by the L & R Leisure Group under the trading name The Great Scottish & Western Railway Company , was either a remarkable piece of opportunism , or a very shrewd example of business judgement . |
| 7 | One worrying aspect concerning the reopening of freight lines to passengers is that invariably where such revivals have taken place , BR has badly underestimated the level of business . |
| 8 | the increasing stranglehold of the big brewers has led to high prices , poor choice and pub closures ; and many new small breweries have been driven out of business . |
| 9 | Because of business commitments he 's cut down on his rescue work . |
| 10 | One development was a network of stakes in the principal companies in each type of business . |
| 11 | ‘ We have no ratio in the mix of business . |
| 12 | Australian Mutual Provident said yesterday that this type of business was a declining sector of the UK . |
| 13 | Though the issue no longer commands the same urgency it did immediately after Tiananmen , ‘ right of abode ’ has been adopted as a cause by a wide variety of business and professional lobby groups . |
| 14 | A year later , he played a central role in founding the Group of 89 , a faction made up of business and professional members of the BLCC who wanted to see a conservative model for Hong Kong 's political development . |
| 15 | A Kenyan chartered accountant threatened to sue for loss of business . |
| 16 | Despite his lack of political experience , Clouthier 's 20-year leadership of business organisations stood him in good stead . |
| 17 | Both the P-E Inbucon annual survey of executive salaries , and the much smaller Jonathan Wren city salary survey , confirm that salary increases have been bigger at the top end of business and the City than at the bottom . |
| 18 | An overseas company dealing in works of art which used premises in London for viewing and storing works of art and controlled access to a secure vault at the premises had an established place of business in Great Britain on the premises , although other works of art not belonging to the company were also on the premises and no outward sign of the company , such as a nameplate , was displayed on the premises . |
| 19 | The writ was served at the London address on the basis that it constituted a place of business established by Capricorn as an overseas company in Great Britain , rendering such service valid under section 695 of the Companies Act 1985 , Capricorn had not registered the name and address of a person authorised to accept service . |
| 20 | Capricorn applied for the service of the writ to be set aside on the ground that the London address did not consitute a place of business in Great Britain or that if service was good , Capricorn sought a stay on the ground of lis alibi pendens in Ohio . |
| 21 | MR JUSTICE HIRST said that the criteria in determining whether an overseas company had established a place of business in Great Britain were summarised in Palmers ' Company Law , 24th edn ( 1987 ) page 1658 . |
| 22 | The museum had demonstrated a sufficiently substantial scale of those two activities to make good its case that Capricorn had an established place of business on the premises . |
| 23 | Along with the merger , Postbank shareholders will be asked to approve a change to the bank 's articles of association so that it can engage in wider areas of business . |
| 24 | The decision is part of a much wider shift in government thinking , in which Mr Patten has clearly been given Cabinet permission to distance his own policy from that of predecessors , such as Michael Heseltine , and , to a lesser extent , Mr Ridley , now Trade and Industry Secretary , who believed that economic success depended on getting the planner off the backs of business and citizen alike . |
| 25 | But damages awards like Mrs Sutcliffe 's would put out of business all but the biggest media moguls . |
| 26 | Take along a prosperous adviser on all shopping sprees , demonstrate a high degree of trust and strong reliance in what they say and you may have unexpected protection should the seller go out of business and the goods fall to pieces . |
| 27 | That is why figures produced by credit insurer Trade Indemnity , showing the rate of business failures soaring by more than a third in the second half of this year , are so worrying . |
| 28 | KENSINGTON PALACE 6 October : The Prince of Wales , President , Business in the Community , held a meeting with members of Business in the Community which was followed by a luncheon at the Palace of Holyroodhouse . |
| 29 | It will still contain plenty of business and mortgage borrowers to kick up a stink about base rates . |
| 30 | The company has a large number of Business Expansion Scheme investors who backed the company before it was on the Third Market . |