Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] commonwealth " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were 25 per cent pay cuts for Burton Group 's Sir Ralph Halpern and John Gunn of British & Commonwealth , who sank to earnings of £996,000 and £740,700 respectively . |
| 2 | British & Commonwealth , the financial group , was another to resist the retreat . |
| 3 | Present owners British & Commonwealth announced that it hoped to raise an estimated £130 million by putting it up for sale . |
| 4 | THE Stock Exchange is investigating two blatant share ramps which for a while yesterday added £178million to the value of conglomerate Williams Holdings , and knocked £94million from financial services group British & Commonwealth . |
| 5 | In contrast , shares in British & Commonwealth at one stage dropped 25 per cent to 82p after unfounded rumours that Department of Trade and Industry inspectors had raided the offices . |
| 6 | Their choice to negotiate for them over the property group 's restructuring is the American financier who , after a colourful career in the more maverick corners of the Euromarkets , agreed to buy the Marshalls money-broking business from British & Commonwealth but failed to find the cash . |
| 7 | It says much for Mr Klesch 's negotiating stamina however , that five years later , the £280m is still unpaid but British & Commonwealth has gone bust . |
| 8 | Bank of Credit and Commerce International , British & Commonwealth , Barlow Clowes all fall foul of this rule , as do many older failed ventures like Clarence Hatry 's Commercial Bank of London . |
| 9 | BRITISH & COMMONWEALTH |
| 10 | This is the effect of a recent House of Lords ' ruling that Spicer & Oppenheim , the former auditors of Atlantic Computers , must hand over further documentation to the administrators of Atlantic 's parent company , British & Commonwealth Holdings plc . |
| 11 | British & Commonwealth Holdings especially favoured smaller search firms ; they had received generally good service and quick results from those they had used , and appreciated the personal contact and cheaper price . |
| 12 | [ HOUSE OF LORDS ] BRITISH & COMMONWEALTH HOLDINGS PLC . |
| 13 | [ ON APPEAL FROM IN RE BRITISH & COMMONWEALTH HOLDINGS PLC . |
| 14 | My Lords , on 1 September 1988 , British & Commonwealth Holdings Plc . |
| 15 | John Gunn of British & Commonwealth , John Ashcroft of Coloroll and , to some extent , the Saatchi brothers are among those who were tempted to believe that expansion was synonymous with diversification . |
| 16 | Do not let tax issues drive the deal -eg British & Commonwealth loan notes may have deferred CGT but they were ultimately a disaster for vendors who took them . |
| 17 | HORACE NOTICE , a former British and Commonwealth heavyweight boxing champion , was one of four men remanded in custody last night for a week accused of rioting at an acid house party . |
| 18 | Sir Ralph Halpern of Burton Group and John Gunn of British and Commonwealth were not so fortunate . |
| 19 | British and Commonwealth was hit early in the day by ‘ malicious rumours ’ of a Fraud Squad investigation , falling 19p to 89p . |
| 20 | British and Commonwealth was hit early in the day by ‘ malicious rumours ’ of a Fraud Squad investigation , falling 19p to 89p . |
| 21 | On 1st July 1916 at 7.30 a.m. , to the sound of exploding mines and a massive artillery barrage , British and Commonwealth forces attempted to storm these low hills around Thiepval . |
| 22 | February 1942 , which involved the surrender of sixty thousand British and Commonwealth troops . |
| 23 | Egypt and North Africa had proved how swiftly modern mobile forces could overrun quite considerable distances , and in the summer months of 1942 , the British and Commonwealth forces were again back in Egypt , relying on overstretched supply lines . |
| 24 | ‘ Back in Britain — still being subjected to continual bombing — and bombing Germany in return — there continued a massive build up of materials ; ideas ; new inventions , and American , British and Commonwealth forces in preparation of the expected invasion across the English Channel . |
| 25 | April 1945 ; British and Commonwealth troops , having rescued Venice continued to arrive at Trieste by the beginning of May , meeting the Yugoslav troops of Tito , in the hills above that City , and fighting against the Germans effectively ceased in Italy . |
| 26 | Only in 1972 did the Trustees of the Imperial War Museum , alerted by ‘ the increasing level of violence in Northern Ireland ’ realise that , since 1945 , there had been a ‘ conspicuous absence of any contemporary art recording the involvement of British and Commonwealth forces in numerous small wars . ’ |
| 27 | BRITISH and Commonwealth lightweight champion Billy Schwer took only three rounds to stop Mexico 's Mauricio Aceves with a badly cut eye at Wembley 's Grand Hall last night . |
| 28 | For example , in their Fabian paper Accounting For Change , Austin Mitchell and his three co-authors refer to Polly Peck , Sock Shop , Coloroll , Parkfield , British and Commonwealth , Sound Diffusion , Rush and Tompkins , and Johnson Matthey as examples of companies that collapsed within weeks of receiving an unqualified audit report . |
| 29 | HENRY WHARTON , the British and Commonwealth super-middleweight champion , is expected to enter hospital within the next few days to undergo an operation on his troublesome right hand . |
| 30 | Only in 1972 did the Trustees of the Imperial War Museum , alerted by ‘ the increasing level of violence in Northern Ireland ’ realise that , since 1945 , there had been a ‘ conspicuous absence of any contemporary art recording the involvement of British and Commonwealth forces in numerous small wars . ’ |