Example sentences of "[vb past] out of business " in BNC.
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| 1 | It arose out of business questions . |
| 2 | Many other rural mills of similar size went out of business in the face of competition from the larger steam-powered urban mills , but Lower Framilode Mill managed to survive up to the mid 1940s . |
| 3 | In later years , many of the rural and semi-rural mills went out of business as a result of competition from the large steam-powered mills built in and around Gloucester Docks . |
| 4 | It was during the early part of his occupation that the last of the Painswick cloth mills finally went out of business and a number of others , such as Damsell 's , were converted to other uses . |
| 5 | Around 1885 the company went out of business , replaced within a year by Priday Metford and Co . |
| 6 | Mill and bakery went out of business in the 1960s . |
| 7 | Ampney Crucis Mill is a long-term survivor for , in an age when many rural mills went out of business as a result of their comparative remoteness , coupled with competition from large steam-powered town mills , it still continued to grind corn . |
| 8 | She went out of business in April 1990 but , because the contract specified a minimum term of three years , only stopped making payments last May . |
| 9 | He says his customers would go further afield only if discounting was ferocious , and in such an event believes that prices would soon start going back up as one or more of the big chains went out of business . |
| 10 | Headhunters were also forced to become more professional because of the growing complexity of the corporate problems they were called upon to solve ; those consultants who were less sophisticated than their clients soon went out of business . |
| 11 | Trade with Russia might survive if the Muscovy Company went out of business , but it was not easy to imagine that trade with Hudson Bay ( with all that it did for London furriers and re-exporters ) could continue if the Company lost its trading rights , and the Royal African Company was believed to be necessary for the slave trade until the 1690s , and the East India Company kept its position in trade with India for over a century after that . |
| 12 | The original Rotorway company went out of business early last year , in spite of selling 1,200 kits , 600 of which are reputedly now flying . |
| 13 | A recent archaeological find is illuminating : one Corinthian fishmonger , whose Carthaginian amphoras and exotic western Mediterranean merchandise ( the scales of the fish can be identified ) show that his was a high-grade shop , went out of business in the early years of the Peloponnesian War , perhaps as a result of the Athenian blockade of the Corinthian gulf ( Arch . |
| 14 | The Reichmanns figured that if New York went out of business the world would go with it . |
| 15 | Indeed , in 1984 some eighteen smallish tour operators failed and in late 1984 an important firm , Budget Travel ( the tenth largest at the time ) also suddenly went out of business . |
| 16 | A satisfactory pension scheme would be a funded scheme vested in the trustees under which , if an employer went out of business , employees ' accrued entitlements would be safeguarded . |
| 17 | Here she was , throwing all her professional energies into promoting Romano de Sciorto and his company , when personally she would n't mind if he went out of business tomorrow … |
| 18 | We went on keeping a watch on his activities , but not for long , because he went out of business . |
| 19 | One of the largest amongst the ‘ others ’ cut their staff in half and , as most of you will know , West Care went out of business . |
| 20 | Robb 's went from strength to strength and in 1933 when Ramage & Ferguson went out of business his takeover of the Victoria Shipyards was complete . |
| 21 | And the brickworks went out of business . |
| 22 | Although they built a mere 30 or so aircraft between 1929 and the end of 1933 when they formally went out of business , their racing craft took most of the major air races in that time and broke the world speed record for landplanes on one occasion — no mean achievement for a team that worked from hand-to-mouth most of the time and had little formal education . |
| 23 | And we lost out too in the 70s when Clarksons went out of business . |
| 24 | In April last year the company went out of business and Sturdy was declared bankrupt . |