Example sentences of "[prep] the [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 | Nearly 100 MPs have signed an early day motion demanding concessions for the pools companies and will vote against the Bill if these are not included . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Now that the objection based on shareholder rights to viewing companies as social enterprises has been removed , we can proceed to a provisional account of the objectives companies should be required to adopt if they are to serve the public interest . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ] . |
| 11 | And to protect their lucrative link-up with the pools companies , the League have agreed that clubs will no longer have the option of moving Saturday games except for television or policing purposes . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The changes , according to the pools companies , will increase the number of jackpot winners . |
| 14 | Security at the Shorts company 's guided-missile plant in Belfast was exposed again . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | One , considered suitable for intermediate-level waste , was a disused anhydrite mine near Billingham in Cleveland owned by the chemicals company ICI . |
| 17 | Tranmere 's fear is that a move inspired by the Pools companies , who pay the League a great deal of money each year , will result in clubs being forbidden to switch fixtures away from the traditional Saturday except where television or the Police demand otherwise . |