Example sentences of "and business [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Government officials committed themselves to ensuring that there would be no net loss of US wetlands and expressed the hope that the proposals would end the stalemate between environmentalist and business groups on the wetlands issue .
2 ‘ From today the title and emblem of The Scotsman will be carried by this locomotive as it carries thousands of Scots , English and other nationalities on their leisure and business journeys between the great cities of Scotland and England , ’ he said .
3 Fifty local authority and business leaders from the North-West were guests of Cleveland County Council and British Rail , which has linked Teesside into its successful TransPennine Service .
4 Fifty local authority and business leaders from the North-West were guests of Cleveland County Council and British Rail , which has linked Teesside into its successful TransPennine Service .
5 The removal of a large section of the landed and business sections of the community would have had a devastating effect on the province as a whole , and especially its economy .
6 We now look after the needs — financial , certainly , but much more besides — of private and business customers throughout the UK and abroad .
7 Among positive features were the growth of service-sector employment , including notably public services in the 1960s and early 1970s and financial and business services in the 1980s ; the increase of North Sea oil production from 1979 to 1985 ; and the recovery of overall output , reflected in the real growth of disposable income from 1982 to 1989 .
8 Institutions engaged in higher education are now expected to be much more aggressively entrepreneurial , and they are also being invited to help their students to acquire marketing and business skills through the Enterprise in Higher Education Initiative .
9 The project requires a flexible approach , demanding not only an analysis of the law but an economic and business approach to the nature of the small business and an understanding of small business computer systems .
10 As far as the knowledge and business enterprise of the producers reach , they in each case choose those factors of production which are best for their purpose , the sum of the supply prices of those factors which are used is , as a rule , less than the sum of the supply prices of any other set of factors which could be substituted for them ; and whenever it appears to the producers that this is not the case , they will , as a rule , set to work to substitute the less expensive method .
11 Without a doubt ‘ information technology ’ has become the most rapidly developing area of industrial and business activity in the Western world .
12 the need for more information about environmental conditions and business conditions in the countries researched ;
13 An ardent member of the Free Church of Scotland , he developed a close personal and business relationship with the Hendersons , a Glasgow shipowning family and also members of the Free Church .
14 The sufficiency of this must depend on circumstances , as , for example , the ramifications and complexities of the transaction , the amount of deception practised by the husband upon his wife and the intelligence and business understanding of the woman .
15 This requirement reflects the policy of risk spreading so that the Law Commission First Report on Exemption Clauses in Contracts No 24 , para 82 ( 1969 ) justify distinguishing between private and business purchasers on the basis of the : … ability of the business purchaser to take into account the likelihood of defects , to reduce their incidence by arrangements for re-examination and servicing ( which may be allowed for in the price paid ) and to make suitable dispositions , by insurance and in his costings , to cover the risks which he has to bear .
16 Already Darlington and South-West Durham authorities had joined forces to increase their service-buying power and other districts were keen to follow suit , said Mr Gary Smith , director of finance and business strategy with the NRHA .
17 Even his great friend and business partner in the Second Dominion , Hebbert Nuits-St-Georges , called Peccable by those who knew him well , a merchant who had made substantial profit from the superstitious and the woebegone in the Second Dominion , regularly remarked that the order of Yzordderrex was less stable by the day , and he would soon take his family out of the city , indeed out of the Dominion entirely , and find a new home where he would not have to smell burning bodies when he opened his windows in the morning .
18 Secondly , the 1988 Local Government Finance Act replaced domestic rates by the Community Charge ( or ‘ poll tax ’ ) , and business rates by the National Non-domestic Rate ( or ‘ uniform business rate ’ ) .
19 Aimed primarily at the fleet and business sectors of the market , Safrane replaces the Renault 25 which was first introduced in March 1984 .
20 Certainly , EDS 's flurry of activity in Italy and Spain over the last few months is proof that it had no dire need of BT to capture the interest of new customers and business partners in the southern reaches of Europe .
21 It seems likely they met in their respective offices or possibly at the Salisbury Club which was a new , but important , social and business focus in the town .
22 The strategy has been to abolish national protectionism in the sales of terminal equipment , to lay down one set of technical standards throughout the EC , to separate the regulatory and business sides of the telecoms authorities , and to open public purchasing of equipment to pan-European tender .
23 If the salesperson is to build up a close personal relationship with his or her customers , he must understand the cultural , religious and business practices of the country .
24 The myriad differences between accounting procedures , fiscal requirements and business practices within the Community have evolved over hundreds of years , and despite the promise of European harmonisation , are not about to disappear overnight .
25 Company law and business regulation in the context of the single market
26 I had been a dutiful daughter , an elegant accessory , a nurse and business manager in the service of three men .
27 In the same year I was elected as president of the Junior Common Room , and presided at debates and business sessions of the student body .
28 A great deal of work has been done in academic and business schools on the track record of success of those who have diversified totally outside their own fields of experience .
29 The seven economists , drawn from the City of London and universities and business schools around the country , presented their preliminary report to the Treasury yesterday , less than two weeks after they were commissioned to debate the issues and give the Chancellor the benefit of their conclusions .
30 The seven economists , drawn from the City of London and universities and business schools around the country , presented their preliminary report to the Treasury yesterday , less than two weeks after they were commissioned to debate the issues and give the Chancellor their conclusions .
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