How To Use Businesslike In A Sentence
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His tone became brisk and businesslike.
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There is something cool and businesslike about you and people take what you say seriously.
The Sun
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If any employee is sinking on the job, you need to respond in a businesslike way.
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She seemed very efficient, and wore short but businesslike skirts and collared blue shirts.
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Coffee was characterized as businesslike rather than frivolous, as reasonable rather than impulsive.
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It's a sad fact, but the opera world has become so businesslike, singing styles so generic, and the stars so homogenized, that there is virtually nothing left to make fun of.
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Your blend of ideas and a businesslike way of presenting them gets results.
The Sun
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Wearing a suit made him feel more businesslike.
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June Huntington's allegation that these practitioners are businesslike rather than professional questions the selection procedure of the committee.
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The blocky, black, businesslike appearance of the stock pistol has been replaced by a two-tone visage that testifies unambiguously to extensive alteration.
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She had a strict, businesslike appearance about her.
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Otherwise the insurer is merely left to a cross-claim in a matter which goes to the risk itself, which is unbusinesslike.
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Sure she was wiry, but her businesslike combination of grey slacks and white blouse suggested someone quite demure.
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She had honey blonde hair and a short businesslike suit that showed off her nice looking legs.
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Roemer represented the best hope for a businesslike climate in Louisiana.
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On the other end of the line Logan is brisk, businesslike.
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Don't be "gushy" and kiddish, but just facts and businesslike about everything
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You are smart and businesslike and ready to turn big ideas into a step-by-step action plan.
The Sun
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It is perfectly possible to look businesslike and smart without a heel'two to four inches' high.
The Sun
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The matronly Judith, unable to hack off Holofernes's head, carves through it with businesslike concentration, pinioning him to the blood-weltering bed with the help of her equally brutish maidservant.
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The main com channel, only moments before so busy with professional, businesslike voices, now echoed with a distant electronic hollowness, meaningless clicks and scratches of static.
Delta Search
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Your businesslike mood helps you impress at work.
The Sun
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The second interesting part of this letter is its businesslike approach to soliciting further support for scientific research.
A Short Guide to Writing About Science
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The charities are brutally businesslike in coaxing dollars from the wallets of the super-rich.
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As I remember, quite commonsensical, businesslike, liked everything cut and dried and insisted on a price-tag on everything she did.
DEATH IN PURPLE PROSE
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I'm enormously proud of what was achieved there, especially the much more businesslike approach to managing the park.
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The second interesting part of this letter is its businesslike approach to soliciting further support for scientific research.
A Short Guide to Writing About Science
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His determination to improve the quality of colonial workmanship and to impose a businesslike system of payments incurred many enemies.
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There is something cool and businesslike about you and people take what you say seriously.
The Sun
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Sure she was wiry, but her businesslike combination of grey slacks and white blouse suggested someone quite demure.
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She answered in a businesslike manner .
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You will have a businesslike attitude that helps you handle the trickiest tasks at work.
The Sun
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Drab, dark-coloured fabrics, favoured by many makers to give their cars a businesslike look and dirt-resistant functionality, are hard-wearing but dreary.
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Your businesslike approach to life helps solve problems.
The Sun
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Every session is different - some sessions race by, others drag, some are quite businesslike, others get very emotional.
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He has become more businesslike in his approach.
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Major businesses all over the world are starting to act in some very unbusinesslike ways.
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Lifting an eyebrow, Lenore resumed her pose as businesslike and efficient.
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Your leading light the moon goes to the top of your chart to ensure you appear businesslike.
The Sun
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‘Yes, I understand that,’ he nodded, turning to face her again, his face composed and businesslike.
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Your mind is sharp and businesslike as you reorganise your life so you can do more of what you want to do.
The Sun
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No wonder the students are now revising busily and everyone is keen to impress their businesslike attitude and the desire for foreign investment upon any foreigner who will listen.
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Last week, with scarcely a lifted eyebrow, that changed to the more businesslike approach that we are all grown-ups together and should behave as such.
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It is unbusinesslike to arrive late for meetings.
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The Literary Examiner, founded in 1823, was short-lived, and in the same year John's long collaboration with his unbusinesslike brother, who owed him large sums, ended in unhappy litigation.
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Dressed in a dark blue suit, he attempts, successfully at first, to project a businesslike air but it never quite manages to stifle the puckish charmer within.
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I'd rather keep the relationship strictly businesslike.
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I'd rather keep the relationship strictly businesslike.
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All these things are completely unromantic, very sober, very businesslike - the members are registered, trained, controlled.
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We also would be better served if we went back to a more businesslike approach to our elected officials' private lives once we've hired them.
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Your mood is businesslike so you could find smart solutions while others still fret about the problems.
The Sun
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Even now he could see her laughing face, which had also carried a very serious, businesslike edge to it.
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The front is strong in execution too, and the detail of the style elements has an elegant cohesion that looks very businesslike when approaching in the rear view mirror.
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Your mood is businesslike so you could find smart solutions while others still fret about the problems.
The Sun
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Stay on the cutting edge of change but maintain a businesslike approach.
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He had a hard, flinty, businesslike look to him.
Times, Sunday Times
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Due to her strict and pious upbringing Edith was a brisk, businesslike and rather straight-laced woman, serious with a no-nonsense attitude but still well liked by all who knew her.
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Your mood is businesslike and your smart ideas will get you noticed.
The Sun
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‘A clear and businesslike approach will insulate decisions from political whims,’ he adds.
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June Huntington's allegation that these practitioners are businesslike rather than professional questions the selection procedure of the committee.
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Directors are taking a more businesslike approach to everything they do.
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His wife is aware of his encounters and he discusses them in a businesslike manner.
The Sun
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You can make them look businesslike by adding a sharply tailored jacket and wedges.
Times, Sunday Times
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In contrast to the businesslike tone of the letters received by businessmen, the email is more personal in its appeal to the readers.
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Your leading light the moon goes to the top of your chart to ensure you appear businesslike.
The Sun
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Your mood will be calm and businesslike when you think and talk about money.
The Sun
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They are the most unfriendly, clueless, disorganized, unbusinesslike set of people I have ever encountered.
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Drab, dark-coloured fabrics, favoured by many makers to give their cars a businesslike look and dirt-resistant functionality, are hard-wearing but dreary.
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Later, it struck me that the Orthodox davening that I'm so used to, while often passionate and powerful, has a certain macho and businesslike quality that can use a little softening up -- a little feminine energy, if you will.
David Suissa: A Woman's Spiritual Edge
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Your mood is businesslike and straight talking replaces guessing games.
The Sun
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To then refuse to meet to consider altering the deal to fulfil his requirements was illogical and unbusinesslike.
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It is perfectly possible to look businesslike and smart without a heel'two to four inches' high.
The Sun
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A piece of larger size than the rest he took and carried in the most businesslike manner back to his home.
A Little Princess
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This activity was carried on in a businesslike manner.
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In a business suit, with a businesslike manner, he jumped into conversation.
The Tribes Triumphant
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The town coroner, Horace is a nervous, businesslike man who is haunted by the people who died in his medical care during the war.
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The experience is relaxing but businesslike rather than luxurious, and would suit anyone on a busy schedule.
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You stay calm and businesslike no matter how fast things change at work.
The Sun
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June Huntington's allegation that these practitioners are businesslike rather than professional questions the selection procedure of the committee.
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That businesslike approach does help cash flow, and, in a calm world with a reliable supply chain, it needn't impinge on care.
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Talk of smaller government is seen as a businesslike suggestion rather than an appeal to the hallowed teaching of our ancestors.
Times, Sunday Times
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We believe we should get a more professional, businesslike approach as a result of that, and I believe there will be a closer look at roading and the rail-track.
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The docks here in Gyo weren't much different from those in Shukumei, though perhaps more… friendly, and less strictly businesslike.
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I was swiftly scolded for my tone: “unbusinesslike, unmannerly, and just plain unaesthetic.”
Scents & Sensibility
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Some people like bare airfields and the brisk, businesslike talk that surrounds them: but Joe Mahoney was a sub-tropical man.
SEIZE THE RECKLESS WIND
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Amelia said in her most serious and an even businesslike way.
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She adopted a brisk businesslike tone.
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She rubbed the spittle into his skin in a businesslike way, bent close enough that he could smell the ancient sweat of her and see the lice crawling in the grizzled hair that keeked from the edge of her rusty-black shawl.
A Breath of Snow and Ashes
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With the opinions of others being canvassed as well it all points to a mature and businesslike approach to filling a vacancy that does have unique requirements.
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His manner is businesslike breezy, and although he talks quickly, he is not nervous or awkward.
Times, Sunday Times
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Your mood is businesslike so you can discuss money in the calm way that gets good results.
The Sun
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Negotiations were conducted in a businesslike manner.
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There is something cool and businesslike about you and people take what you say seriously.
The Sun
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The general atmosphere was one of businesslike order and purpose.
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The idea of a television show about the White House in an hour-long drama format, which, given the vast attendant costs, needs the broadest possible audience that exists in any medium today, is, at best, unbusinesslike.
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There is something cool and businesslike about you and people take what you say seriously.
The Sun
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Your blend of ideas and a businesslike way of presenting them gets results.
The Sun
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The British should maintain a businesslike relationship and resist the temptation to be arrogant.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Chief summoned me downstairs. He was brisk and businesslike.
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Hammond has scoured the world looking for on-the-ground examples of his businesslike approach to social change.
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The answering tone was brisk and businesslike, as if this happened ordinarily and every day.
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Your blend of ideas and a businesslike way of presenting them gets results.
The Sun
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We have seen a change over the last probably 10 or so years to a certainly more businesslike approach to pastoral enterprises.
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If any employee is sinking on the job, you need to respond in a businesslike way.
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The conversation as recorded is, to anybody who has done real business, implausibly vague, unbusinesslike and frankly unlikely.
Times, Sunday Times
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His manner is businesslike breezy, and although he talks quickly, he is not nervous or awkward.
Times, Sunday Times
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A student of smarm, he roamed the land dispensing jam tins of cash to people who at first glance appeared to be businesslike.
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Occupied with her task she became a different person: calm, businesslike, and driven.
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You have a businesslike attitude mixed with a creative flair that ensures people take your plans seriously.
The Sun
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This is unbusinesslike behavior and you don't think you can trust people who are so partisan.
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You are able to stay businesslike and friendly when others get frazzled.
The Sun
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Although the navy blue suit no longer rules the business fashion world, businesslike clothing is making a comeback.
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This activity was carried on in a businesslike manner.
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To then refuse to meet to consider altering the deal to fulfil his requirements was illogical and unbusinesslike.
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(Changing his tone abruptly to businesslike briskness.)
THEFT
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He kept the tone of the letter formal and businesslike.
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You think fast and talk in a businesslike way so deals hit by delays get moving.
The Sun
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Your mind is calm and mood businesslike now the moon goes to the top of your chart.
The Sun
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You have a strict businesslike attitude at work that gets good results.
The Sun
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This is a new sight compared to the order he has lived under before, when everything seemed to operate so smoothly and with businesslike efficiency.
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The atmosphere was more churchlike than businesslike and only a handful of shoppers strolled the aisles.
Times, Sunday Times
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You will be businesslike and efficient and some spare time work could change the way you live in exciting ways.
The Sun
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He spoke, in a very businesslike tone, the sudden flare of anger gone from his voice and attitude.
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Your businesslike approach to money helps you take control of your life.
The Sun
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Today's smart jacket and dark trousers are infinitely more businesslike.
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Madeline was dressed professionally and fashionably, in a businesslike skirt and blouse.
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The matte blue finish on the barrel and receiver and the textured finish on the gray stock give an understated, businesslike appearance.
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They looked to be efficient and businesslike in the way they ran their affairs.
Broken Lives
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To then refuse to meet to consider altering the deal to fulfil his requirements was illogical and unbusinesslike.
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This essay begins by describing the policy innovation that began in the mid-1980s. Market-based policy ideas and a more businesslike approach were adopted.
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Eden began his premiership in a businesslike fashion even though he had decided on an instant election.
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He kept the tone of the letter formal and businesslike.
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He learned to follow their low-key, businesslike approach because it was the best way to fit in with the group.
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And that means a businesslike approach to determine a return on investment in ministry.
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We should be taking a more businesslike approach and saying that we need this amount of roading in this time frame, and we will have to borrow on this basis and pay it back from revenue earned.
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I found its low key, understated, businesslike appearance to become more appealing as I got used to it.
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You will have extra self-belief and energy, plus a businesslike attitude that will ensure people take both you and your plans seriously.
The Sun
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Every session is different - some sessions race by, others drag, some are quite businesslike, others get very emotional.
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His tenacity, patience, humanity, shrewdness in personal dealings, and unblinking focus on essentials more than offset his inefficient, unbusinesslike ways.
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‘That's good to hear,’ she said, her voice suddenly becoming more serious and businesslike.
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There is something cool and businesslike about you and people take what you say seriously.
The Sun
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Due to her strict and pious upbringing Edith was a brisk, businesslike and rather straight-laced woman, serious with a no-nonsense attitude but still well liked by all who knew her.
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You are in a businesslike mood and can be strict about cash.
The Sun
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The moon visits your work and well-being chart to put you in a calm and businesslike mood.
The Sun
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Although that body is not even a private training enterprise, it saw that the bill was an incredibly unbusinesslike and unfriendly approach to the whole exercise.
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I think I understand academic values well enough, and the challenge of trying to make this scholarly publishing business serve those unbusinesslike ends has made my career interesting…
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He kept the tone of the letter formal and businesslike.
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So he was highly gifted in that area, and a businesslike friend of his suggested they go into business together and run an electrical shop, and my father would be responsible for repairs and be a co-partner.
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You are at your sharpest and most businesslike so your ideas win people round.
The Sun
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This tip is equally suited to people who want to add a little more pizzazz to their computer and for those who want to make them as businesslike a possible.
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His determination to improve the quality of colonial workmanship and to impose a businesslike system of payments incurred many enemies.
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Data such as these, of course, appear to confirm a number of popular stereotypes: of unbusinesslike African Caribbeans and of the thriving ‘Asian’ corner shop.
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Zimbabwe Africans told me that when they tried to start a businesslike a shop, or a farm, or a barand they failed because at the first sign of success their relatives showed up and cadged from them, or implored them to pay their relatives school fees.
An Interview with Paul Theroux
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It's unbusinesslike and it doesn't get you anywhere.
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He was tall, had shoulder-length black hair, and wore a very businesslike suit with a white shirt and a black and white stripped tie, which made him look like a stern president of a very large corporation.
