Example sentences of "up [art] company " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a move to tighten control of a far-reaching empire and to improve the group 's own image , Maurice and Charles Saatchi , credited with building up the company , have stepped down from the day-to-day running of the group . |
| 2 | One had a fairly strong feeling that part of their motivation was negative , in that it was to exclude the American participation , rather than positive — to build up the company . |
| 3 | The acquisitions — and the cost of converting scores of Greenall pubs into Premier House outlets providing food and with budget accommodation — pushed up the company 's interest charge by 40 per cent to nearly £20million in the year . |
| 4 | More than 4,500 Ford employees have taken up the company 's new education scheme to encourage them to learn a foreign language . |
| 5 | Mr Welch geared up the company 's locomotive-manufacturing business for a much-ballyhooed revival in American railways that never happened . |
| 6 | Mark 's promotions and progress up the company ladder . |
| 7 | The company can have between two and 50 shareholders ( people who have given money to help set up the company , and in return take a share of its profits ) . |
| 8 | A dispute with Telecom engineers is holding up the company 's first link in London , and Mercury 's first inter-city line — which should have been operating by now — will not open until next year . |
| 9 | The Commission says that the government 's practice of propping up the company by waiving interest payments due on CNP 's debts of ECU 1410m ( £987m ) — owed mainly to the state — serves to promote artificial preservation of the status quo , and to ‘ postpone necessary adjustments ’ . |
| 10 | Yesterday the High Court issued an order winding up the company , after a petition from Board of Trade president Michael Heseltine . |
| 11 | Yesterday the High Court issued an order winding up the company , after a petition from Board of Trade president Michael Heseltine . |
| 12 | In a recent case , the Second Division of the Inner House of the Court of Session has decided , in an appeal on the basis of law equally applicable in England and Wales , that a minority shareholder is entitled to an order to wind up the company on the just and equitable ground under s 122(1) ( g ) of the Insolvency Act 1986 , even though he is not entitled to a share purchase order because of unfair prejudice in terms of s 459 , CA 1985 ( see Jesner v Jarrad Properties Ltd , The Times , 26 October 1992 ) . |
| 13 | At this meeting the creditors will be asked to endorse the resolution to wind up the company and to approve the choice of a liquidator . |
| 14 | And , however badly Ratner appears to have screwed up the company 's finances — and public image — some people are said to be still willing to give him financial support . |
| 15 | No wonder boss Jim Driscoll — who invented the Shoe People and set up the company — is being dubbed Britain 's answer to Walt Disney . |
| 16 | In the opinion of Paul Whitfield , Deputy Chairman of Bonham 's , the cost structures of a company such as Sotheby 's are inappropriate to the present recessionary climate , but dismantling them is impossible without breaking up the company — one possible solution in his opinion . |
| 17 | IBM Corp chairman Louis Gerstner has called a halt to plans to break up the company , the Financial Times claimed yesterday : the paper said Gerstner told a group of executives , ‘ The whole of IBM is greater than the sum of its parts , ’ and put the strategy into reverse ; John Akers had planned to bring outside investors into some of the decentralised IBM units such as AdStar and Pennant Systems , and was planning to sell some of them outright . |
| 18 | I was so stunned you 'd managed to pull off such a coup — but I should n't have been surprised , remembering how you built up the company from nothing . ’ |
| 19 | Some Wall Street analysts responded in rage to the report , Reuter reports : ‘ Even to have a recommendation of splitting up the company is ridiculous , ’ says Piper Jaffray analyst David Rothschild . |
| 20 | Virani went into the market and bought up the company cheap . |
| 21 | Ultimate control in a company rests in its members ; they make up the company . |
| 22 | where a special resolution has been passed by members to wind up the company ; |
| 23 | The small amount of finance used to set up the company came from Garrett 's personal savings . |
| 24 | By getting out of the bargain books field now , he believed he might well be ‘ ahead of the game ’ , just as he had been when he set up the company . |
| 25 | ‘ None of us believed that it was right , sensible , logical or professional to split up the company , ’ says Bill Toner . |
| 26 | Moreover , if bad management is perceived by the stock market , share prices will be lower than they might have been and a takeover raider may see an opportunity to buy up the company , install a better management , improve profits , and hence make capital gains when share prices subsequently rise . |
| 27 | Latest figures show that during the first two months of this year more than 14,000 took up the Company 's invitation to find out more about nuclear power by visiting Sellafield . |
| 28 | He joined the company in 1960 when asked him to set up the Company 's first electrical department . |
| 29 | They chose Whitehaven as their base , after fleeing from their native Hungary because of the Nazi threat , setting up the company originally known as West Cumberland Silk Mills . |
| 30 | The meetings of the new shareholders of History plc may well be stormy ; some indeed may wish to wind up the company or favour a merger with other subject areas to preserve its share of a declining pupil market . |