Example sentences of "companies have " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed such is the pressure for adequate car parking that there are a surprising number of cases where brewing companies have applied for permission to demolish not only outbuildings but adjacent cottages , some of them listed … ’ |
| 2 | In the past five or six years , foodservice companies have also been able to supply frozen pasta . |
| 3 | And many companies have developed packaging to prolong the shelf-life of chilled , fresh pasta . |
| 4 | Several of the larger equipment companies have a mail order service , which is useful if you are unable to get out to the shops . |
| 5 | Three companies have been mentioned as possible bidders : Philip Morris , the US-based food and tobacco concern and owners of Miller Brewing , Anheuser Busch of the US , the world 's number one brewer , and Hanson , the acquisitive UK company that once owned Courage . |
| 6 | Several of the quoted subsidiaries and associates also control other businesses , for example Solveg , a property portfolio management company , in which several CB group companies have stakes . |
| 7 | With Chinese wages still roughly one-seventh of those in the colony , so many companies have shifted production across the border that at least two million Chinese workers — twice the size of Hong Kong 's manufacturing workforce — are employed in Guangdong , processing goods for the textile , toy and electronics firms which are the backbone of Hong Kong 's industrial sector . |
| 8 | These companies have given Wehmiller a useful exposure to the US , where demand has been buoyant . |
| 9 | The doubt is really whether Western companies have put a sufficiently high price on the information they are providing . |
| 10 | Rodger Pannone , a solicitor involved in the Piper Alpha , King 's Cross and M1 air disasters , told the International Bar Association conference in Strasbourg : ‘ Unless there are damages awards — which must be uninsurable - of hundreds of thousands , if not millions , of pounds in certain circumstances , bad companies have no threat or incentive to make products and services safer . ’ |
| 11 | Modern audiences no longer accept plastic bushes , and the southern Californian suburban sprawl means the production companies have to take their horses and cows to locations far away in Arizona or Montana . |
| 12 | The French connection was also a factor behind the growth in the fastest growing areas of Guinness 's business , the Far East , where the two companies have joint distribution agreements . |
| 13 | Therefore ‘ all federated companies have a duty to see that the collection of the fund is made as difficult as possible for the CSEU ’ . |
| 14 | 23 October : Shares in Bond Corp and Bell Group are likely to be suspended if the companies have not published their preliminary profit and loss statements by this date . |
| 15 | All the companies have a sponsorship executive , and the commercial network has a sponsorship committee . |
| 16 | Most companies have a lackadaisical approach to recruitment — as if they 're doing us a great favour . ’ |
| 17 | If the trend continues , 1989 will be the first year in which UK companies have made more acquisitions in continental Europe than in the US . |
| 18 | Record companies have become far more adept at monitoring and exploiting new acts , and their links with the smaller labels — who they once only heard about by way of the left-field rock press — are now thoroughly institutionalized . |
| 19 | Most major record companies have experimented with selling other music-related items such as T-shirts , posters , calendars and books . |
| 20 | Almost all companies have decided that these items are best left to specialist manufacturers . |
| 21 | some record companies have their own in-house designers . |
| 22 | Like record companies , publishing companies have their contacts . |
| 23 | Larger companies have contacts throughout the world and reciprocal arrangements with foreign agencies . |
| 24 | This is to ascertain whether these companies have paid over the correct royalties to the band . |
| 25 | You can see it in our trade obviously in the way in which companies have amalgamated and merged and grown . |
| 26 | Many other companies have a more autocratic culture in that the chairman and chief executive will have a disproportionate say in what happens . |
| 27 | Conversely , if state-owned companies have been offered for privatization but few bidders have come forward , is this a ‘ failure ’ if the firms continue as loss makers in the public sector ? |
| 28 | It has also shown that they are only a part of the explanation of Africa 's problems ; a difficult agricultural base , the inequalities of the world trading system , the sometimes exploitative role of multinational companies have also had a major part to play . |
| 29 | Together with the lower than expected flotation price , the 10 companies have been given an attractive yield averaging as much as 8.55 per cent . |
| 30 | Together with the lower than expected flotation price , the 10 companies have been given an attractive yield averaging as much as 8.55 per cent . |