Example sentences of "companies be in " in BNC.
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| 1 | How long will it be before Britain 's three satellite companies are in that league ? |
| 2 | He is perfectly earnest when he says , ‘ I feel that the people who run the big national companies are in my way . |
| 3 | One source close to the company said : ‘ We always have to keep to our side of the deal , but , as the private companies are in administration , they do n't . |
| 4 | One source close to the company said : ‘ We always have to keep to our side of the deal , but , as the private companies are in administration , they do n't . |
| 5 | Longer-term decisions in the six companies are in general made as a result of discussions of strategic issues . |
| 6 | These companies are in the business of selling , not in the business of education . |
| 7 | Most insurance companies are in the risk of their prime business and they are in the risk of investment — which can go up and down dramatically as you well know . |
| 8 | A spokeswoman for Softlab , however , told the US paper 's German sister publication , Computerwoche , that the figure had been plucked out of the air and , while confirming that the two companies are in discussion , said that negotiations are no further advanced than those it is currently having with at least four other US firms . |
| 9 | The principal weakness of these provisions is that companies ( especially , but not exclusively , private ones ) are deplorably dilatory in delivering returns to the Registrar so that at any one time a majority of companies are in arrear to a greater or lesser extent . |
| 10 | The national and regional survey figures indicate that the large companies are in a better position than small companies to expand their export activity to compensate for a recession in the home market . |
| 11 | Society might also have views on two other aspects on monopoly performance : the amount of political power that large companies are in a position to exert , and the distributional issue of fairness in relation to the large supernormal profits that a monopolist can earn . |
| 12 | more companies are in receivership and when manufacturing investment is down by 19 per cent. , how can the Government justify taking such a listless attitude to the needs of British industry ? |
| 13 | , The chair of the Water Service Association , John Bellak , has told a conference in London that British water companies are in danger of being forced to over-invest in environmental clean-up operations to counter " alarmist fears " about the quality of drinking water . |
| 14 | ‘ Conversely few companies are in a position to compete strongly in the auction when subsidiaries are put up for sale , ’ they said . |
| 15 | In the north , the question of naturalization was not so black-tinted : Egyptian , Tunisian and Moroccan immigrant workers were a higher proportion of the labour force ; and Libyans did not fear many American or European employees would apply for Libyan nationality — petroleum and foreign companies were in any case outside the scope of legislation . |
| 16 | Furthermore , the mining companies were in an extremely weak position because of the major religious significance of Croagh Patrick and the annual pilgrimage there . |
| 17 | Nonetheless , many medium-sized ( by world standards ) European companies were in difficulties in the 1980S . |
| 18 | Secondly IBM found itself facing a steadily growing Japanese challenge , especially from Fujitsu , NEC and Hitachi — all three of which companies were in the first six in the world league for mainframes and for data processing overall . |
| 19 | At one time the two water companies were in active competition and any person paying the rates , whether landlord or tenant , could change his water company as easily as his butcher or baker … although this state of things has long since ceased , and the companies have come to an arrangement so that the people can not now change their supply , all the same , the result of their earlier competition remains . |
| 20 | Oil companies were in the news that year . |
| 21 | TWO Northern companies were in the limelight last week as Tyne Tees Television recommended to its shareholders that they accept merger proposals with Yorkshire TV . |
| 22 | This proportion of one company doing sophisticated scanning out of a sample of seven companies is in line with the US study by Fahey & King ( 1977 ) which found that two companies out of a sample of 12 maintained separate environmental-scanning units . |