Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [noun pl] company " in BNC.
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| 1 | The defendants had been accused of orchestrating an illegal scheme to boost the value of Guinness shares above their normal market levels , at the time of Guinness 's ultimately successful takeover bid for the Distillers Company in 1986 . |
| 2 | Followers put the decline down to worries about prospects for the drinks company 's French associate , LVMH , amid reports of sharply lower luxury good sales in Tokyo.Similar pressures were said to be responsible for the decline in Rothmans ‘ B , ’ off 10 at £10.99 . |
| 3 | Senior executives of Compania de Telefonos de Chile SA told the Honduran President , Rafael Callejas , that their company was interested in becoming involved in a future privatisation of the telecommunications company in Honduras , Reuter reports from Santiago . |
| 4 | I AM writing on behalf of the ships company of HMS Active , and in particular the Petty Officers ' mess , to formally thank the city of Liverpool for the excellent hospitality that has been shown to us during our visit . |
| 5 | Much to the annoyance and frustration of the sports-goods company which stitch him up , he has rejected the jerseys which resemble blurred traffic lights . |
| 6 | The second Guinness trial arising out of fraudulent share support operations in connection with the 1985-86 takeover of the Distillers Company by Guinness was ended by the judge on Feb. 11 in view of the deteriorating physical and mental health of one of the two defendants , Roger Seelig , a financial adviser to Guinness . |
| 7 | Bill , next door , he 's d company d boss of a plastics company . |
| 8 | And while IBM is undoubtedly now more of a computer-services company , much of this business is a spin-off from its installed base of mainframes — hardly a growing market . |
| 9 | On Jan. 8 the Azapo-linked Azanian National Liberation Army ( AZANLA ) bombed the offices of a promotions company involved in the South African tour of the United States musician Paul Simon . |
| 10 | Mr Montignac says he discovered his ‘ method ’ while lunching in fancy European restaurants when he worked for a drugs company . |
| 11 | When this collapsed in 1878 , he got a post as a junior clerk with the Distillers Company Limited , which had been formed a year earlier by six of the largest Lowland patent distillers to rationalize production . |
| 12 | On May 16 the Appeal Court halved the five-year prison sentence given to former Guinness chairman Ernest Saunders in August 1990 for " massive fraud " in connection with the Distillers Company takeover bid [ see p. 37662 ] . |
| 13 | His rousing address finished with the exciting claim that ‘ IBM has been transforming itself into a solutions company ’ . |
| 14 | Jim left school at sixteen , joined a Y T S scheme , years ago , with an electrics company . |
| 15 | STUDENT Chris Smith was given £1,000 from a pools company — and then told : ‘ Sorry , we 've made a mistake . ’ |
| 16 | Interesting gifts have included pestles and mortars from a spice company , silver measures from a whisky company , small silk scarves from a cosmetics company , cuff links from an industrial diamond company and paper knives from a leading stationery company . |
| 17 | For a yearly payment of £5 he conveyed that piece of his estate to the Apothecaries Company , with one particular proviso : that every year fifty dried specimens grown there in the same year be supplied to the Royal Society of London . |
| 18 | The bit about odd jeans was totally accurate , by the way ; Cousin Josh made his fortune firstly by dealing in cars , then by risking all on a jeans company which at the time was tottering on the very hem of bankruptcy ; under Josh 's regime , their jeans were n't any better or any cheaper than anybody else 's , but he had the garments made in odd sizes ; waists of 29 , 31 , 33 inches , and so on , as opposed to the products from all other companies , domestic and foreign , which tended to favour the even numbers . |
| 19 | Security at the Shorts company 's guided-missile plant in Belfast was exposed again . |
| 20 | A survey by the drugs company Beecham shows the incidence of flu is between 25 and 71 per cent higher than at this time last year . |
| 21 | One , considered suitable for intermediate-level waste , was a disused anhydrite mine near Billingham in Cleveland owned by the chemicals company ICI . |
| 22 | ‘ We 've got ta be the only band in history to be sued by a comics company and a clothing company , ’ says Eugene , wryly . |