Example sentences of "firms that have " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the current round of licences expires at the end of 1992 , new licence-holders will be ( more or less ) the firms that have paid most for them . |
| 2 | That method is exactly the one best suited to LBOs or recapitalised firms that have overpaid for themselves and can not meet their debts . |
| 3 | Firms that have employed women in this way are , for example , the American concerns , the maquiladoras , that have been set up in northern Mexico near the US border . |
| 4 | Firms that have particular local difficulties , through perhaps having a plant that is environmentally unfriendly , may offer generous school industry links to boost the firm 's image in the community . |
| 5 | Predictably , below the top 20 firms , it is the larger firms that have the greater number of listed clients , and there are no firms with fewer than seven partners acting for more than two listed companies . |
| 6 | Because of the long-term nature of the business ( many funds run for five years or more ) , there are comparatively few firms that have been going long enough to supply relevant data . |
| 7 | Firms that have directors on their boards , who have headed failed organisations , will also not be eligible for membership because of the instances when companies have gone bust and then resumed trading almost immediately under a different name . |
| 8 | Sun — which admits its latest strategy is similar to the route trodden by MIPS Computer Systems Inc that now has half a dozen semiconductor companies selling its R series RISC designs — says it is just awaiting clearance to announce the names of several firms that have agreed to take on the Sparc . |
| 9 | Like other firms that have announced ACE boxes , there is no ACE operating system yet available for the box , though an early version of Microsoft 's NT will be available in June — the complete offering from December — with Unix System Labs ' SVR4 due at the beginning of 1993 . |
| 10 | Aleks ( Russia ) , a Moscow-based security company , is marketing a computer database of business partners to avoid : rather suspiciously launched on April 1 , the service — Conduit — has information on what it calls ‘ untrustworthy commercial partners ’ and the database is apparently updated by aggrieved entrepreneurs and firms that have been victims of fraud or deceit and are seeking redress ( or revenge ) — canny Aleks says it can not be responsible for the data contained on the database ; users must pay 5,000 roubles as an initial fee , plus another 100 roubles a month and 20 roubles for each reference . |
| 11 | For firms that have already invested abroad , there is a third motivation : efficiency-seeking from investments that transform the workings of their international network . |
| 12 | The evidence shows that , when adjusting output during a downturn in the economy , many firms that have taken advantage of regional assistance contract operations at those plants placed in areas that previously had high unemployment choose to close these plants . |
| 13 | Therefore , the impact of manufacturing employment in rural areas will depend on the precise nature of the firms that have been established . |
| 14 | However , it is difficult to see how they might generate significant welfare losses ( and , indeed , may involve some welfare gains — see Waterston ) , unless practised by firms that have significant market power , in which case they may be used to exploit and sustain a dominant position . |
| 15 | As we saw in the previous section , there is an understandable reluctance to move against firms that have competed successfully and won market share . |
| 16 | There are no bureaucrats going round counting the jobs that never happened , the jobs that went away or the small firms that have packed up because they could no longer make a profit under the new controls and restrictions on their work force . |
| 17 | This situation allows a comparative study of the performance of small firms within much larger vertically integrated companies with the small firms that have retained their autonomy . |
| 18 | The finalists of the 1981/82 and 1982/83 Competitions for the Prince of Wales Award for Industrial Innovation and Production provide a self-selected sample of firms that have been successful in innovation , ie in developing commercially viable new products . |