Example sentences of "negotiations [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 The disclosure letter is just as important a part of the negotiations as the sale and purchase agreement , and it would be a mistake for extensive work to go into the due diligence exercise and subsequent negotiations of the sale and purchase agreement , only to be undone by an inadequate disclosure letter .
2 The churchmen were less buoyant , having presented Mr de Klerk with a memorandum in which they listed six steps he had to take ‘ immediately ’ before negotiations about the government 's much-vaunted new political dispensation could start .
3 NATFHE members had threatened strike action in April but it was avoided when management agreed to start negotiations about the contracts .
4 The new EC Framework Programme for 1990–94 was adopted earlier this year and since then negotiations about the individual programme lines have been taking place .
5 Investigation was a lengthy process taking many months , a delay during which company share prices could move considerably and upset the original negotiations about the terms on which the relative shares of the companies should be valued .
6 On the subject of negotiations with the government , Mandela emphasized that he himself had at no time entered into negotiations about the future of the country — thus attempting to calm black fears arising from his various meetings with government ministers and the then President P. W. Botha .
7 Together with the negotiations about the future of the ministries and the economy , the State Council was negotiating the future structure of the Union .
8 The placement of the bolts by the Crowden Outdoor Centre , which is based just below the quarry , follows private negotiations between the landowner , North West Water , and Crowden Outdoor Centre , which is run by Peter Noble .
9 The crash , on 12 December 1985 , occurred before the Iran-Contra connection became public , and in the midst of sensitive negotiations between the White House , the Iranian government and Islamic Jihad , which claimed responsibility .
10 ‘ Their departure will be subject to bilateral negotiations between the GDR and West Germany , ’ it said .
11 Mr Calfa , aged 43 , has taken part in this week 's negotiations between the government and opposition on the new cabinet line-up .
12 After many long hours of negotiations between the key delegations , however , and increasing support among South American and African countries for a total ban on drift-nets , a compromise text was agreed which involved substantial concessions by Japan .
13 According to the RTC , negotiations between the two parties are underway .
14 This view could not easily be maintained as the evidence mounted that , despite their negotiations with Sir Herbert Samuel and the TUC 's meeting with the Prime Minister on 12 May , the strike had been called off without any guarantees that those who had been involved would not be victimized by employers and that there would be no immediate resumption of negotiations between the coal miners and the coal owners .
15 Between August and October 1963 , negotiations between the appropriate powers led to a Treaty being signed in Moscow for a partial ban on testing nuclear weapons in the atmosphere , in outer space , or under water .
16 A factor which evidently weighed with the committees and the ‘ General Assembly ’ considering the line during the complex negotiations between the newly established ‘ Grand Union ’ ( in which the Grand Junction and the Leicester and Northants .
17 Negotiations between the parties were protracted and expensive .
18 The guilty plea — a surprise about-face by Hitachi which had strongly denied any wrong-doing — follows several weeks of negotiations between the company and the
19 This opens up the possibility of negotiations between the Commission and the parties concerned and the Commission has shown itself willing to resolve cases on the basis of undertakings in [ two ] of the [ five ] proceedings it has brought to date .
20 The following month negotiations between the residents and the IDA led to a compromise , allowing interim dumping at Barnahely until an alternative permanent dump site was found .
21 Plessey unsuccessfully attempted to put together a consortium takeover bid for the much larger GEC and there were abortive negotiations between the two companies for the sale to GEC of Plessey 's stake in GPT .
22 After the news of the secret negotiations between the government , Leyland Vehicles and GM broke in February 1986 , the government allowed alternative bids to be put in for the different parts of the firm .
23 Those humble seeds were the sticking point in negotiations between the US and EC which led to Washington walking out of the Gatt trade talks in Chicago this week .
24 PUBLIC SPENDING is to be harshly curtailed after a tough round of negotiations between the Treasury and Ministers .
25 Negotiations between the National Trust and MoD have been taking place for two years and have reached a critical stage .
26 Assistant county planning officer Alfreda Thistlethwaite said negotiations between the National Trust and Government departments over buying the land were at a crucial stage .
27 Contract negotiations between the trust and consortium , which pays for patient care in the area , have reached deadlock and are likely to go to arbitration .
28 The other site referred to is presently subject to negotiations between a local authority in the North West of England and the BMC , and due to the need to avoid jeopardising negotiations between the council and the present landowner , no further details can be given at present .
29 Only hurried negotiations between the Scots and the British Embassy produced the necessary clearance papers in time for the keeper to play .
30 Negotiations between the Republic and the Vatican languished ; many Spanish bishops , including the primate , Cardinal-Archbishop Segura of Toledo , made little attempt to conceal their hostility to the Republic , Segura himself being eventually declared persona non grata by the government ; and in May 1931 Catholic sensibilities were outraged when the Provisional Government appeared unwilling to crush an outburst of church-burning and anticlerical violence in Madrid and several southern cities .
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