Example sentences of "business [prep] be " in BNC.

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1 The threat from investment in the East is also being played down by TUC officials who say the biggest business to be done by investors will be in filling East European markets with much-craved products .
2 The European operation is too damned big a slice of the corporate business to be left to the locals .
3 No business to be in London , and you know it . ’
4 Tom Dreaper could not convince him that racing was a business to be taken seriously , and Foinavon had been sold for 2,000 guineas .
5 Gibraltar has less , and attracts a rougher class of tax avoider , but there is business to be done .
6 Any council member has a right to inspect any document held by or under control of the authority and relevant to any business to be transacted in council , committee or sub-committee .
7 The following pages of this Notice of the Annual General Meeting give details of the business to be transacted at the 1990 Meeting .
8 He was keen for more business to be taken at full Cabinet level and set about dismantling parts of the Attlee machine .
9 However , in the case of parish , town and community councils , the power to exclude the Press and the public applies to council meetings and committee meetings only , and may occur where the council formally resolve to exclude the public on the grounds that publicity would be prejudicial to the public interest by reason of the confidential nature of the business to be transacted , or for another special reason stated in the resolution and arising from the nature of the business or the proceedings .
10 Expect the cream of Allied Dunbar 's life assurance business to be attacked soon — by the three men who built its assets to £7.5 billion .
11 ‘ If there is a particularly nasty piece of business to be got out of the way , a quick dose of this will bring it to a head quickly .
12 ‘ But , ’ he adds , ‘ strategically , if you stood back and asked yourself if domestic appliances was a good business to be in , the answer was no , it was n't .
13 A young woman ran a pushchair into the back of her legs painfully and , when Meredith turned round , treated her to a furious glare which clearly said she had no business to be in the way .
14 The business world is one of constant change , and your business to be successful must be able to accommodate change without penalty .
15 Only junior representatives were sent to sessions of the Council in order for routine business to be carried out .
16 Last year , Sony Corp bought a licence to Apple Computer Inc 's AppleTalk network so that Macs could be networked with its News Unix workstations , and it has now taken the logical next step and its computer subsidiary will market Macs for attaching to networks of Sony workstations in Japan , with much of the business to be directed at use within the Sony group companies .
17 The Sun agreements were the first part of a strategy devised by Adobe 's four month-old Display Products Group to take the Unix field by storm — and there remains the Interactive Systems Unix side of Sun 's business to be mopped up , Ybarra reminds us .
18 It expects the bulk of its business to be in workstations .
19 This partly explains the desperate desire of nearly every function in the business to be represented on the board or the management committee .
20 I do prefer to wear smart clothes for work ; it 's still not easy for women in business to be taken seriously — I like to look the part .
21 What is required of the student is the capacity to identify with English : " Unless an undergraduate can identify himself in some sense with the subject he is studying , he is either reading the wrong School , or has no business to be at university at all .
22 Those in charge need to impose some objective , explicitly or implicitly ( for example , by imposing a breakeven constraint ) in order for the size of the business to be determined .
23 The Companies Act 1985 does not specify in detail the business to be transacted at an AGM but it will normally include :
24 As the amount of property owned by the city and the amount of public business to be transacted by the city increase , so does the opportunity for inefficient and corrupt government increase , and the greater will be the efforts of the administration to remain in control of such a political prize .
25 Caesar had no business to be coming downstairs three minutes after the commencement of Act Four .
26 Wizard King had no business to be hanging round freaksters .
27 I wanted my understanding of business to be entirely different , based firmly on analysis and deduction rather than any kind of weird visual intuition .
28 ‘ I make it my business to be happy , ’ said Lili .
29 She has no business to be there , but this is the way the story goes — ( And Serafine sighs . )
30 It is not enough for a business to be responsive only to its present environment .
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