1.   In a recession smaller firms often go out of business.

2.   Jim saw that the firm was going to be ruined, so he pulled out.

3.   Some firms will go to great lengths, including spying, to obtain information about their competitors.

4.   The firm went bankrupt before the building work was completed.

5.   The guarantee could be worthless if the firm goes out of business.

6.   Such a situation cannot persist for long since firms would go out of business.

7.   Politicians were not prepared to risk the fragile social consensus by allowing troubled firms to go to the wall.

8.   And if the firm goes out of business, investors would have to wait to get their securities back.

9.   A law firm went bankrupt after spending three years on the first trial.

10.   A major Japanese brokerage firm has gone bankrupt.