Example sentences of "firm [vb mod] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the long run firms may compete in physical investment or in R&D , leading to duplication of capacity or innovation expenditures . |
| 2 | Firms may enter into formal information agreements , under which they undertake to exchange information on costs , outputs , prices , and discounts . |
| 3 | The project investigates this more fully , and asks why British and French firms should rely on different types of adjustment , and how far this is caused by differences between the two countries in the organisation of vocational training , and that of skilled work , in collective bargaining arrangements , and in labour market organisation . |
| 4 | Though the expressed aim of this policy was to improve efficiency , ministers went to considerable lengths to make sure that private firms could compete on favourable terms , in the end to little effect since private firms succeeded in gaining only one in four contracts by 1990 ( NAHAT 1990 ) . |
| 5 | It was maintained that small amounts of assistance to firms could result in measurable improvements in the sales of products of assisted firms . |
| 6 | Its consistency and coherence were supposed to encourage a common view about the future to which firms would respond with bold investment plans — nudged , if necessary , by government tax and credit policies . |
| 7 | As long as people want to buy cakes which suggest that an old lady wearing a mob-cap is baking them in a Victorian farmhouse , the food firms will continue with dotty deceptions which add nothing to the nutritional value of our food . |
| 8 | The promotion of Peru 's telecommunications firms will begin in earnest next month after the regulatory framework and methodology for fixing rates have been established , Reuter reports from Lima : investment advisers Morgan Grenfell and Coopers & Lybrand will begin pre-qualifying firms interested in acquiring 100% of the state 's shares in Entel Peru SA and 20% of the government 's stake in the Compania Peruana de Telefonos SA ; Peru has just 2.3 lines per 100 inhabitants . |
| 9 | Where oligopolistic market structures remain it seems likely that some firms will resort to informal agreements and the other collusive devices examined in Chapter 10 . |
| 10 | Firms can help in other ways too , such as by providing company housing for employees who are unable to find property in the new area before the date of their transfer . |
| 11 | Although the firm may negotiate within pre-agreed negotiating parameters or instructions on behalf of a client , it is not part of the firm 's role to take decisions for a client . |
| 12 | Although the firm may negotiate within pre-agreed negotiating parameters or instructions on behalf of a client , it is not part of the firm 's role to take decisions for a client . |
| 13 | For example , a clause that states that the firm may act as principal or agent may be interpreted as defining the firm 's duties , excluding liability for breach of duty in the event that it should act as principal , or disclosing that it sometimes acts as principal . |
| 14 | This was required by the SIB in order to protect customers of smaller firms , which might need to rely on the larger firm with or through whom they are dealing ( although it is doubtful that a small securities firm should trade in complicated derivatives at all if it does not have the necessary expertise ) . |
| 15 | Like Eddie Bleasdale , Xionics 's chairman , Mike Bevan , is keen that his firm should concentrate on new products , rather than spend a lot of time setting up mechanisms for producing and selling goods in massive numbers . |
| 16 | Yet Continental plays down the benefits that the merged firm might get from expanding sales in America and Europe , the world 's two biggest tyre markets . |
| 17 | The firm will ask for voluntary redundancies . |
| 18 | The new firm will specialise in civil telecommunications . |