Example sentences of "[adj] to the city " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dealers regarded the punters ' concern to make a profit on , say , £500 worth of Rolls Royce shares with a contempt peculiar to the City whizz-kids they aspired to become . |
| 2 | Why Australian Mutual Provident wants the Pearl , which is fighting the bid , is not entirely clear to the City . |
| 3 | Roger Davis , head of audit at Coopers & Lybrand , has called for a corporate governance panel — similar to the City 's Takeover Panel — to be set up to ensure that the voluntary system of corporate governance , recommended in the Cadbury report , is effective . |
| 4 | In addition , the ICAEW ethical guideline on corporate finance advice , effective from 1st September 1989 , precludes our acting as the lead adviser ( for example , confirming that the terms offered to the client disposing of the business are fair and reasonable ) in situations where the transaction is subject to the City Code and both parties are clients of KPMG . |
| 5 | Where a document is also subject to the City Code , then six copies of the final document should be sent to the Takeover Panel . |
| 6 | Where the lead adviser 's role is in respect of the acquisition of a listed company and is , therefore subject to the City Code , due diligence should be considered carefully . |
| 7 | However , it would be undertaken predominantly outside MAS , with inputs from MC , and provided to clients not subject to the City Code . |
| 8 | The economic impact of the arts in New York has not however been obvious to the city 's business leaders or to its city government , says William Luers , president of the Metropolitan Museum . |
| 9 | Certainly Forster 's powers of demagoguery were equal to the city 's economic distress . |
| 10 | Normally it went about its business either on foot or in an arabeah , the horse-drawn cab distinctive to the city . |
| 11 | General Accident 's new riverside offices , for example , are complementary to the city 's traditional architecture . |
| 12 | On average this represented around 35 per cent of the annual operating budget available to the city . |
| 13 | Given that much traffic such as goods deliveries and rubbish removal is essential to the city 's functioning , the purpose was to filter-out non-essential movement so that necessary traffic would flow more smoothly not more slowly . |
| 14 | The canal feeds waterworks at Purton , north of Bristol , which handles 50 million gallons a day , supplies vital to the city . |
| 15 | He seemed to think that Nathan was new to the city . |
| 16 | Conflicts of both interest and duty are not new to the City of London ; indeed , they have traditionally been of great concern to financial market regulators . |
| 17 | Because they were so close to the city , the trucks travelled through the night and , by dawn , Cable announced over the intercom to everyone sitting in the back that Arcady 's higher domes were now visible on the horizon . |
| 18 | But when we looked at the location , our feeling was that it was close to the City and there were professional couples living nearby . |
| 19 | The railway station is close to the city centre , and the motorway is nearby , giving rapid and easy access to Manchester , Liverpool and North Wales . |
| 20 | In the undergrowth at the side of the road something moved — a wild pig maybe , Jehan thought , although game this close to the city was unusual . |
| 21 | He was the last of the Americans loyal to the city when New York was assuming its predominant role in the contemporary art world . |
| 22 | Further on down , near to the city , a single felucca was gliding gracefully in towards the bank . |
| 23 | ‘ That 's why we chose this site near to the city centre . ’ |
| 24 | Pope Clement III had repossessed the city in 1188 and made the senate his vassals , but Pope Celestine III , an Orsini , had been more or less confined to the city . |
| 25 | The archive contains documents of a non-ecclesiastical nature , not only relative to the city itself , but also the county and , indeed , the properties of the Minster elsewhere in England . |
| 26 | In assessing the impact that rail travel 's going to have in terms of travel patterns form the new settlement , I think that one important consideration that the panel should have regard to is the location of York 's s station relative to the City Centre . |