Example sentences of "go [prep] voluntary [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A statement from the company 's offices at Dartford said that because of the Arts Council cut it had to go into voluntary liquidation . |
| 2 | Angola wants Mr Savimbi to go into voluntary exile while elections are held , perhaps to return later , but his supporters say there was no such agreement . |
| 3 | I can realise my stock and pay twenty bob in the pound if I go into voluntary liquidation now , before Masters of Notts gets deeper into trouble . |
| 4 | By November 1924 , the number of subscribers had fallen to 1000 and in 1925 the Electrophone Company went into voluntary liquidation — killed stone-dead by the advance of the new-fangled ‘ wireless ’ . |
| 5 | It comprises a cash alternative worth up to 23p a share and 43p per preference share , but irate shareholders say they would get more money — 46p a share — if the company went into voluntary liquidation . |
| 6 | A few weeks later Masters of Notts went into voluntary liquidation , paying twenty shillings in the pound as Father had said they would . |
| 7 | Although shareholders in Hilton Mining afterwards contemplated legal action because the prospectus had not revealed that Allan Hilton , the chairman , had been a director of Hilton ( Products ) which went into voluntary liquidation , their real grievance was against Harvard 's selling techniques . |
| 8 | So we decided to anticipate our enemies and in 1894 the National Amalgamated Sailors and Firemen 's Union went into voluntary liquidation " . |
| 9 | It went into voluntary liquidation on 7 May . |
| 10 | A month after the Thames and Chilterns Tourist Board went into voluntary liquidation , creditors owed nearly a third of a million pounds , met at a hotel in Thame to find out why . |
| 11 | The decision to focus on the fur trade follows the demise last month of the pressure group Lynx , which went into voluntary liquidation after losing a libel case against a mink farmer . |
| 12 | Christopher Hope grew up a Catholic in Pretoria and went into voluntary exile , aged thirty-one , in 1975 . |
| 13 | Mysteriously the Spartan king Pleistoanax now withdrew , thereby puzzling and enraging his compatriots , who fined him ( Thuc. ii.21 ) : he went into voluntary exile in Arkadia . |
| 14 | Having barely attained his majority he was returned to the first Exclusion Parliament for Radnorshire , and , although knighted by Charles II in 1680 , threw himself with an almost desperate zeal into the cause of Exclusion , with the result that in 1683 he went into voluntary exile in Holland , suspected of complicity in the Rye House plot . |
| 15 | He then went into voluntary exile . |
| 16 | The children went into voluntary care in June 1991 and were placed together with foster parents . |
| 17 | That means that the court has to consider the position immediately before an emergency protection order , if there was one , or an interim care order , if that was the initiation of protection , or , as in this case , when the child went into voluntary care . |
| 18 | One member asked for details of how my father had gone into voluntary liquidation . |
| 19 | His small recording company , as he explained only too often , had gone into voluntary liquidation , leaving him with just enough to manage nicely , and he was going to spend the cold weather in his house in Purley . |
| 20 | The March formula one motor racing company has gone into voluntary liquidation . |
| 21 | AUCKLAND Creative Pattern Makers , based on the South Church Industrial Estate , Bishop Auckland , has gone into voluntary liquidation with liabilities of around £90,000 . |