Example sentences of "[noun pl] ' company " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 470th Master of the Clothworkers ' Company Sir Peter Gadsden , a former Lord Mayor of London ; and the Master of the Clockmakers ' Company Mr Alan Henn , entertained guests to ‘ A Shropshire Dinner ’ at Salters Hall , in the City of London . |
| 2 | The Clothworkers ' Company , whose first royal Charter was granted by Henry VIII in 1528 , is the oldest of the London Guilds . |
| 3 | He was educated at Bridgnorth School , and then apprenticed to a London clothworker , becoming a freeman in the Clothworkers ' Company of London in 1541 or 1542 ( and its master in 1559 ) . |
| 4 | During the 1650s he served as master of the Clothworkers ' Company and an assistant of the Levant Company . |
| 5 | In 1610–11 the Hospital , and in 1612 the Clothworkers ' Company , decided to obtain a comprehensive survey of their London estates . |
| 6 | At the expiry of his term he became free of the Clothworkers ' Company on 7 August 1771 . |
| 7 | [ British Museum Catalogue of Printed Maps , Charts and Plans , vol. v , 1967 ; Clothworkers ' Company archives ; J. B. Harley , ‘ The Society of Arts and the Survey of English Counties ’ , Journal of the Royal Society of Arts , vol. cxii , 1964 ; parish registers and rate-books , St Andrew Holborn , St Bride Fleet Street , and St Martin-in-the-Fields ; W. A. Seymour ( ed . ) , |
| 8 | In 1875 he was awarded an exhibition in physical science newly created by the Clothworkers ' Company ; in the following year he was awarded an entrance scholarship at Christ 's College , Cambridge . |
| 9 | Once in London , he worked with James Asperne , of the European Magazine , Thomas Hurst , of Longman 's , and perhaps Thomas Tegg [ q.v. ] , who witnessed Wilson 's admission to the Clothworkers ' Company 7 February 1810 . |
| 10 | [ Bookseller , 1 July 1868 ; City Press , 18 July 1868 ; archives of the Clothworkers ' Company ; parish registers of Kirkby Ravensworth , St Bartholomew the Less , and St George Bloomsbury . ] |
| 11 | Doubts about banks ' capital reserves , which include stock in clients ' companies , and property-related bad debts may continue to undermine confidence in the market as a whole . |
| 12 | In some cases this is mediated through the bank that handles the business of both parties , and the banks themselves are also stockholders in their clients ' companies . |
| 13 | ‘ Especially in the back , ’ said Richard , ‘ which is important when you still have to match the standards of your clients ' company cars . ’ |
| 14 | It is that the view of Anglo-American finance as a casino full of rapacious capitalists has become popular at the same time as those countries ' companies were being taken over by the people themselves . |
| 15 | he was apprenticed to his uncle , Thomas Stanton ( 1610–1674 ) , master of the Masons ' Company in 1660 and founder of the sculptors ' yard in the parish of St Andrew , Holborn , of which Stonecutter Street possibly marks the site . |
| 16 | William became free of the Masons ' Company in 1663 . |
| 17 | They had two sons , Thomas , who died at Leghorn , and Edward ( c .1681–1734 ) , who carried on the family business , becoming free of the Masons ' Company in 1702 and master in 1719 . |
| 18 | Although he distinguished himself in action , Hodgskin found naval discipline irksome and his comrades ' company desultory . |
| 19 | And now he 's back in one of the first ‘ recession vignette ’ commercials , selling all the directors ' company cars to maintain the work force 's wages . |
| 20 | He had been a Borough Councillor and Magistrate , a Director of Swain & Co. and Christy & Co. , and a Liveryman of both the Fishmongers ' and Felt-makers ' Companies in London . |
| 21 | With the College of Arms hindering the grant of a new charter to the Upholders ' Company in 1722 , some London undertakers attempted to form their own livery company . |
| 22 | Hutchinson was also active in the Ironmongers ' Company of London , of which he had purchased the freedom . |
| 23 | Daniel became free of the Haberdashers ' Company in 1632 , and apprenticed Samuel to the same trade in 1634 . |
| 24 | He was a member of the Haberdashers ' Company , and prospered from various sectors of English commerce , both traditional and novel . |
| 25 | Supported by a small inheritance from his father , who died in 1538 , Smith gained his freedom of the Haberdashers ' Company and subsequently of the Skinners ' , the company of Sir Andrew Judde [ q.v. ] , a wealthy City merchant and Kent landowner , whose daughter , Alice , he married about 1555 . |
| 26 | The second son , William , became a master of the Musicians ' Company , and the third , Charles , played cricket for Middlesex and England . |
| 27 | In the offices of the Sex Pistols ' company , Glitterbest , Branson became known as ‘ Mr Pickles ’ . |
| 28 | , Michael ( c. 1588–1653 ) , stationer and author , was born in Eynsham , Oxfordshire , c .1588 , the son of Richard Sparke , a husbandman according to the records of the Stationers ' Company , to which Michael was apprenticed in 1603 . |
| 29 | In Scintilla ( 1641 ) he attacked printing monopolies , named monopolists , and urged that the Stationers ' Company should be run more democratically . |
| 30 | From March 1645 , when he became deputy licenser to Rushworth , until March 1647 when both men were dismissed , presumably for political reasons , Mabbott 's name appears regularly in the Stationers ' Company register . |