Example sentences of "[det] company have " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Hungarian trade ministry advises firms not to export to the Soviet Union without first getting bank guarantees ( so far , few companies have managed to obtain one ) . |
| 2 | Few companies have taken an interest in biological insecticides such as Bacillus thuringiensis ( its spores or toxin ) or the baculoviruses , because of lack of protection by patent and difficulties in producing formulations that are stable in the field . |
| 3 | Few companies have yet gone this far . |
| 4 | Even so , few companies have embraced it with the down-and-dirty relish of Converse — another spot features a girl getting the brand 's logo tatooed on her bottom . |
| 5 | FEW companies have fallen so far and fast as IBM . |
| 6 | Very few companies have talks to the company . |
| 7 | Sharon defended the decision , she argues that few companies have the resources to undertake the hefty capital investment needed . |
| 8 | In practice few companies have made use of the opportunity provided by the Act to start generating electricity on a substantial scale . |
| 9 | Some companies have entered the market with encouraging propositions , others not . |
| 10 | Of course , some companies have noticed these deficiencies and introduced high carbohydrate bars which offer a far healthier balance of carbohydrate to fat . |
| 11 | Some companies have tackled the task of connecting their different systems via electronic mail , but EDI is increasingly being used . ’ |
| 12 | Some companies have dispensed with the middle management function altogether . |
| 13 | Some companies have already voluntarily disclosed similar information . |
| 14 | Some companies have been set up and others reformed to offer an alternative to the limited liability structure , for example the John Lewis Partnership , the Scott Bader Co . |
| 15 | Some companies have sought mergers , others have sold off their defence factories or tried to convert them to other work ; some have simply shut them down . |
| 16 | But some companies have made big efforts to throw out less . |
| 17 | Some companies have successfully trained teams of staff based across the country who are able to speak for the company on everything but board level decisions . |
| 18 | This process of coalition building is so well-known that some companies have invented their own language around it . |
| 19 | Peterborough PPC : We can see where you 're coming from , and indeed , some companies have already done what you suggest with regard to demonstration versions of their software . |
| 20 | Surely we all believe enough in BAIE to hope it will be a yardstick of professional competence and status — after all , some companies have more than one IPR member in a department or consultancy ? |
| 21 | Some companies have a department labelled ‘ marketing ’ to discharge this responsibility . |
| 22 | ’ Some companies have been very conciliatory , ’ though they 've still come out with lines like ’ if only you 'd talked to us first … ’ . |
| 23 | Some companies have an automatic deletion of all e-mail messages more than three months old with the proviso that any important messages can be taken out and incorporated into a formal , structured system ( for example , a word processing system or individual accounts ) if that message needs to be retained or is a key part of another , more important story . |
| 24 | Shadow environmental protection minister Ann Taylor claims that some companies have been allowed " blanket relaxations of toxic and microbiological standards " with the result that drinking water in some areas may be unsafe . |
| 25 | But it has also begun to create a corporate culture where some companies have become a kind of economic prison where senior management can legally abuse and ill-treat their employees , and silence any protest with the threat of the sack . |
| 26 | However , David Chadwick , a member of the Liberal Democrats group on the council , said : ‘ All my requests to the chief executive of the council for financial details about this company have been turned down . |
| 27 | The directors of this company have therefore ignored the legal requirements now attaching to the allotment of shares and are liable to a default fine for each infringement ( see Sch 24 , CA1985 ) . |
| 28 | ‘ All the departments who are successful in this company have used these methods , so why do n't we ? ’ , |
| 29 | They bought out , this company have bought out a new tile and he said they 're looking for a sort of nice house to have as a sort of a show house and then he thinks he 'll get them for nothing . |
| 30 | Such companies have at times faced a petroleum revenue tax rate of over 90 per cent , considerably in excess of anything they were led to expect when they first went into the North Sea . |