Example sentences of "companies be of " in BNC.

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1 And some companies are of such eminence in the world that , for an appropriate emolument , retired politicians , diplomats and higher civil servants are more than happy to bestow on them the benefits of the business acumen and personal probity for which they are rightly renowned .
2 At first , this suggestion seemed to apply to all accounts — which certainly would have been taking a sledgehammer to crack a nut — but it has now been narrowed down to those of ‘ public interest ’ companies , with a fairly generous definition of which companies are of public interest .
3 Moreover , Uzzell said , companies are of the opinion that there are always more important things to be done .
4 Many of the large Swedish industrial companies are of this type .
5 The withdrawal showed how scared companies are of the negative publicity they might receive if they do not clean up their acts right down the line .
6 Only a handful of British companies were of a size to contemplate it , and among them there existed a curious air of parochialism , of not wanting to venture into foreign-language recordings , or markets which were unfamiliar .
7 ‘ The danger otherwise in many companies is of top management being cut off from people right at the front end . ’
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