Example sentences of "companies that have " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having proved the value of a design-led business , Conran saw the logic of applying the same approach to other retail companies that had perhaps got left behind in the high-street revolution . |
| 2 | But his horizons were dramatically broadened when he joined British Steel and was asked by the late Lord Melchett , who was then chairman , to reorganise the fourteen widely dispersed companies that had been put into the same melting pot under the nationalisation programme . |
| 3 | Companies that had previously been prepared to pay the Institute 's tuition fees , which are higher than for other professional qualifications , now queried it . |
| 4 | One authority in the Brazilian Mineral Institute claimed that ‘ Congress felt that foreign mining companies that had already made huge investments here should be differentiated from newly arrived companies ’ . |
| 5 | In contrast , he selected those companies that had data in the PIMS system for at least seven and up to thirteen years ; this gave him data on 460 US companies . |
| 6 | In terms of regional differences , East Anglia reported the highest proportion of companies that had raised R&D spending , and the southwest of England the lowest . |
| 7 | None of the overpayments were to companies that had directors in the second category . |
| 8 | Mr Kerr added that none of the companies that had received the irregular payments had been required to repay money . |
| 9 | He said Wellcome could not benefit from tax breaks enjoyed by companies that had set up manufacturing facilities in Puerto Rico . |
| 10 | In fact , there are now more companies with no plans for future investment ( 52 companies ) than companies that had not made any investment over the previous three years ( 43 ) . |
| 11 | Golden shares will prevent the French water companies that have been investing in the British water industry from bidding outright for five years . |
| 12 | Independent transport companies that have sought to win business away from existing contractors in the Fulton market have had their lorries damaged and their workers hammered with loading hooks . |
| 13 | The lion 's share of Singapore 's exports is produced by the 3,000-odd foreign companies that have set up on the island . |
| 14 | Most of the companies that have bought STMs are still working out what to do with them . |
| 15 | And the figure includes only those companies that have publicly admitted their readiness to sell . |
| 16 | Earlier in the day , Mr Jack Cunningham , Labour 's campaign co-ordinator , said on BBC TV 's Breakfast Time , that Labour ‘ have made no decision about further sales of the Government 's holding of stocks in companies that have been privatised ’ . |
| 17 | Among companies that have opted for a total or partial switch to diesel in recent months are Philips Electronics , Dunn & Bradstreet , the Milk Marketing Board , London Electricity Board and Alliance & Leicester Building Society . |
| 18 | The companies that have used computer data bases most successfully for competitor intelligence have kept the data bases small and simple . |
| 19 | To complicate the issue , observers predict that not all the American companies that have applied for slots will actually launch satellites . |
| 20 | Companies that have used Sunsail for corporate hospitality include TWA , Toshiba and Citibank . |
| 21 | For companies that have kept at a specified size over the years , working to budgets that they know and understand , are forced to expand to deal with the increased flow . |
| 22 | KPMG Peat Marwick , Sakura Global Capital and BDO Binder Hamlyn are among the companies that have paid £1,000 for a table to seat their team of 10 contestants . |
| 23 | A number of companies have gone to great pains to point out to the shareholders that the goodwill adjustment does not affect the company 's net asset value , but Company Reporting named a number of companies that have actively avoided showing the full extent of losses on disposal . |
| 24 | There has also been significant criticism of companies that have entered into transactions that were unsuitable for their needs and that increased their financial risk . |
| 25 | And the severity of the recession has made it difficult for those companies that have reached the end of the five-year period to find an exit route for their BES investors . |
| 26 | This study is based on a population of 2,079 UK domestic and Irish companies listed at May 1992 , which comprises 1,664 continuing companies and 415 companies that have joined the market since 1987 . |
| 27 | Assured tenancy companies that have raised money under the BES to invest in properties for letting are having trouble valuing their properties . |
| 28 | The nature of the financing of overseas subsidiaries is also a key factor , given the large number of UK companies that have maintained substantial foreign currency borrowings ( particularly dollar ) and sterling cash deposits . |
| 29 | As a result , there has been a steady growth in the number of companies that have an audit committee — around two-thirds of the top 150 UK listed industrial companies and the great majority of UK listed financial institutions now have audit committees , and in more than half these cases , the committees were established within the past five years . |
| 30 | After all , Wang Laboratories Inc and Prime Computer Inc are just two of a string of companies that have opened and later closed in the south of Ireland , but Amdahl Corp is still there , Intel Corp is investing heavily and expanding , 3Com Corp and Cabletron Systems Inc are among the new arrivals , and several other chipmakers are still doing assembly and Sun Microsystems Inc has just followed ICL Plc and Sema Group Plc in establishing software development operations in the Dublin area . |