Example sentences of "companies are [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many City pundits believe that new debt to equity ratios indicate how confident companies are about investments . |
| 2 | But the companies are considering picketing the gates of the park on its opening day . |
| 3 | COMPANIES are considering adopting a ‘ cafeteria ’ approach to benefits to allow employees to choose perks from a ‘ menu ’ of items , the Confederation of British Industry said yesterday . |
| 4 | A recent survey by law firm Eversheds shows that a quarter of senior executives of medium and large-sized companies are considering changing their accountants , bankers or solicitors because they do n't get value for money . |
| 5 | Companies are under no obligation to do so but , for those people lucky enough to work for an organisation willing to amend its pension scheme rules accordingly , this new provision could make an immense difference to the financial position of early retirees . |
| 6 | But so long as English law refuses to recognise that parent companies are under a legal as well as a moral obligation to meet the debts of their subsidiaries the group accounts are largely irrelevant so far as creditors are concerned since they normally have resort only against the individual company with which they have dealt . |
| 7 | Power companies are under an obligation to install at least 100 megawatts of wind power capacity by the end of the year under contract to the government . |
| 8 | Some of Italy 's largest companies are under investigation , and yesterday a group of shareholders announced the formation of an action group to see if any of the money disbursed in illegal payments could be recovered . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Moreover , Uzzell said , companies are of the opinion that there are always more important things to be done . |
| 12 | Many of the large Swedish industrial companies are of this type . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Indeed he stated that ‘ urban units seem to be to the process of reproduction what the companies are to the production process ’ ( 1977 , p. 237 ) . |
| 15 | Payment-by-results : Companies are to be encouraged to pay employees according to profits made . |
| 16 | Stocks held by the UK Group Companies are to be valued at the lower of cost ( including all relevant overhead expenditure and external sub-contractor costs of processing stock ) and net realisable value [ excluding freight costs ] after making due allowance for obsolete items , slow moving items , unusable items , unsaleable items and nonstandard items . |
| 17 | Stocks held by the UK Group Companies are to be valued at the lower of cost ( calculated as direct materials and labour and an appropriate allocation of manufacturing overhead ) and net realisable value [ excluding freight costs and disposal costs ] . |
| 18 | The companies are to be treated as shown below . |
| 19 | US car companies are to be given government help to produce more fuel efficient models . |
| 20 | ABOUT 1,000 companies are to be surveyed as part of a major study by the Robert Gordon University , aimed at improving the greening of Scottish industry and commerce . |
| 21 | Life companies are to be assessed each year on the gains on their units , and taxes spread over seven years . |
| 22 | A growing number of large companies are including information on environmental issues in their annual reports , although as the Institute 's Financial Reporting 1991–92 points out , it ‘ is as yet at an experimental stage and assessment of its value is still tentative ’ . |
| 23 | We have also seen how dependent these private companies are on public finance and how difficult they are to regulate . |
| 24 | Three of the UK 's privatised water companies are on the National Rivers Authority 's " top 10 " prosecution list , making them among the country 's most polluting companies in terms of court fines . |
| 25 | But companies are at last cottoning on to this , and beginning to produce equipment that does n't just make sense to the MIDI-literate studio engineer , but can be incorporated into guitarists ' setups and actually used . |
| 26 | Vauxhall points out that many companies are at present replacing company car schemes with a cash alternative . |
| 27 | This distinction is important , as cooperative joint ventures aimed at or resulting in co-ordination of the competitive behaviour of the parent companies are outside the Merger Regulation and are governed by Article 85 or 86 ( see Chapters 5 and 6 ) . |
| 28 | Growing companies are among those most at risk , she claims , when going down the old-fashioned selection route . |
| 29 | How long will it be before Britain 's three satellite companies are in that league ? |
| 30 | He is perfectly earnest when he says , ‘ I feel that the people who run the big national companies are in my way . |