Example sentences of "[noun] companies [verb] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many organisations including salary clubs , salary survey producers and even the specialist relocation companies produce their own statistics on cost of living . |
| 2 | GCCS made particularly good progress breaking the Japanese naval attaché cipher traffic , both in London and elsewhere in Europe , since many foreign cable companies routed their signals through repeater stations in places like Malta where GCCS could acquire all interesting traffic without having to go through the charade of obtaining a warrant . |
| 3 | A second bill , to revise the audit law , was also under consideration ; at present companies selected their own auditors and so were able to hide their assets and evade taxes . |
| 4 | Lager companies aim their advertising at C2s . ’ |
| 5 | From the point of view of the environmental impact of mining , if the state was prepared to allow the mining companies to export their profits tax-free , it certainly was not going to try and impose expensive pollution control , environmental and reclamation regulations on their operations . |
| 6 | A dispute also blew up over attempts by the mining companies to present their case in the local schools . |
| 7 | I am pleased to report that the Stoddard companies continued their growth , with profit before tax rising 28% to £1.4m on sales 17% higher . |
| 8 | The cheaper carriage rates forced the canal companies to lower their charges ; in turn this reduced the boatmen 's wages and many of them were obliged to move off the land and take their families onto the boats . |
| 9 | some record companies have their own in-house designers . |
| 10 | The new pop groups were expected by their record companies to construct their music as its own advertisement , as a video spot on MTV , Sky Channel , TV-am . |
| 11 | UK companies to monitor their own pollution |
| 12 | The Chancellor , Nigel Lawson , insisted yesterday that the economy was unlikely to slip into recession because of higher base rates as long as UK companies controlled their costs . |
| 13 | Consumer organisations warn that compulsory metering could lead to higher bills if water companies increase their charges to cover the costs of meter installation . |
| 14 | Within the next decade , as the privatized water companies develop their GIS , we shall see a massive amount of data conversion in this area . |
| 15 | It has the advantage of being simple and cheap to establish , and allows the water companies to predict their income . |
| 16 | Although there are some fairly minor local variations ( because of the quality of the local water , for example ) , most water companies base their bye-laws on a set of ‘ Model Water Bye-laws ’ , so there is a degree of consistency across the country . |
| 17 | If the European sales companies get their fingers out and get the languages checked for me then yes . |
| 18 | Premiums are as steep as this because insurance companies got their underwriting spectacularly wrong three years ago : in 1991 they lost £1.2bn on mortgage indemnity . |
| 19 | Such businesses are not going to survive in the face of the pressure being applied by insurance companies to have their customers only deal with approved repairers , particularly when it is becoming harder and more expensive to become an approved repairer and then maintain one 's company as such . |
| 20 | A ban on logging in Thailand , after a series of devastating floods , had led Thai logging companies to turn their attention across the irregularly policed border with Laos . |
| 21 | These showed that half of the manufacturing companies increased their R&D spending in 1992 — and that almost as many intended to continue this trend in 1993 . |
| 22 | Perhaps that increase reflects a decline in profits , the recession and the drive by tobacco companies to advertise their products even more fiercely . |
| 23 | Italy 's monarchy set up the agency 100 years ago to provide services to some 90 regional consortia that helped farmers and food companies sell their output and buy supplies . |
| 24 | WHERE THE BLUE CHIP COMPANIES FIND THEIR GREY MATTER . |
| 25 | In addition , there exists a small private sector where coal companies operate their own small mines under a licencing arrangement with state industry . |
| 26 | The American railroad companies boasted their own King Ludwigs and some of their creations succeeded in being both fantastical and architecturally exciting . |
| 27 | CRITICISM of the way companies present their accounts and the lack of interest in reform among investors was voiced last night by Robin Leigh-Pemberton , Governor of the Bank of England . |
| 28 | Insignia Solutions Ltd , a sturdy member of the tiny band of small UK computer and software companies making their mark across the Atlantic , reports from its Mountain View , California Insignia Solutions Inc base that it has raised $4.75m in ‘ mezzanine ’ financing from Technology Venture Investors of Menlo Park , California , which gets one seat on the board of the High Wycombe , Buckinghamshire company 's board ; the investment is its first in a foreign company . |
| 29 | Nintendo and Sega can control prices by insisting all software companies buy their cartridges from them . |
| 30 | In a parallel agreement three French nuclear power construction companies resolved their counter-claims against Iran for contracts broken in 1979 [ see also p. 37929 ] . |