Example sentences of "owned by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two of the several names owned by another recipient had strayed into someone 's word-processor to create a further deserving don , the knowing reference to whom must have ruined the new year for more than one senior scholar . |
| 2 | Similarly for the protestant community : the school plant is owned by the church , or appropriate church body . |
| 3 | Ruddles , once a proud independent , now owned by Watneys , promotes its processed beers as though they have the support of CAMRA . |
| 4 | This approach to design could formerly be seen in the Public Bar of the White Swan , Bradford Street , Deritend , Birmingham ( owned by Allied 's Ansells division ) . |
| 5 | Loiseau senior ate regularly at a three-star restaurant owned by the Troisgros brothers at Roanne in the Loire valley . |
| 6 | For a considerable amount of inconsequential information owned by the institution is classed as confidential , even though its release could only be considered prejudicial to the safety and interests of the state by the most bigoted autocrat . |
| 7 | It backs on to another property owned by a professional photographer-friend , Hazel . |
| 8 | CAMRA wants a sliding scale of excise duty , to promote competition by encouraging the retention of specialist breweries owned by larger concerns . |
| 9 | By the end of the 1730s Truman 's Brewery had getting on for 300 publicans on the books , though less than a tenth were tied houses actually owned by the brewery . |
| 10 | Molly is a Labrador cross , owned by Gay Cosens from Reigate , Surrey . |
| 11 | Four of these companies are quoted separately from CB on the Paris Bourse ( CB received a London listing in 1973 ) : UCB ( 33 per cent owned by CB , in housing and property finance ) , UFB Locabail ( 66.2 per cent , business equipment finance ) , Cetelem ( 67.7 per cent , consumer finance ) , and Cardif ( 56 per cent , life insurance and savings products ) . |
| 12 | The only computers in many villages are those owned by the teenage boys of the affluent to play their wham-bam games . |
| 13 | EIE , owned by the businessman Harunori Takahashi , has world-wide assets estimated at more than $9bn ( £5bn ) , including holdings in Australia , Hong Kong and the United States . |
| 14 | After the breakdown last week of an attempt by the Industrial Relations Commission to settle the dispute by arbitration , Mr Hawke 's government has begun its controversial plan to compensate the three main domestic airlines — Ansett , jointly owned by the TNT transport empire and Rupert Murdoch 's News Corporation , East-West , an Ansett subsidiary , and the government-owned Australian Airlines . |
| 15 | McKinsey said it was dealing directly with Information Consulting on the transaction but the latter would have to be relieved of an option owned by Saatchi before any definitive pact . |
| 16 | The family 's interests include shares owned by the estate of the late Basil de Ferranti , a former chairman of the company . |
| 17 | Thames Water Authority was fined £3,000 with £1,000 costs by Newbury magistrates after it admitted pumping ‘ virtually raw ’ sewage into a stream flowing through land owned by Peter Palumbo , chairman of the Arts Council , at Bagnor Manor , Winterbourne , Berkshire . |
| 18 | The Historic Royal Palaces — palaces owned by the Queen but not inhabited by her — comprise the Tower of London , Hampton Court Palace , Kew Palace and Queen Charlotte 's Cottage , Kensington Palace and the Banqueting House . |
| 19 | Many of its quarries are located next to sites owned by large players such as Tarmac and ARC . |
| 20 | THE LENGTHY battle for control of New York 's cellular telephone franchise took an unexpected turn yesterday as McCaw Cellular announced a $1.9bn deal to acquire the half stake owned by the Metromedia group . |
| 21 | Meanwhile , the $110-a-share cash bid for LIN by McCaw , which is 20 per cent owned by British Telecom , expires on 13 October . |
| 22 | I have just discovered that this column is 75 per cent owned by a Japanese company . |
| 23 | The gift-shop used to be a farmhouse , one of several owned by the skinflint farmer Boris who made his fortune by never paying bills . |
| 24 | BOOKER has merged Kingswood Chemists , its chain of retail pharmacies , with GK Chemists , a retail pharmacy business owned by Gus Kiamtia and his family . |
| 25 | The merged business , Kingswood-GK , will be 60 per cent owned by Booker and 40 per cent by the Kiamtia family . |
| 26 | The new directors are Peter Churchill , 59 , a barrister who specialises in corporate law , Peter Ryan , the chairman of Elga Group and a former director of conglomerate Thomas Tilling , now owned by BTR , and Brian Smith , who was group managing director of Rank Organisation until 1983 . |
| 27 | The two-bedroom cottage needs refurbishment but it is in a superb location , in the middle of woodland owned by the National Trust and overlooking the River Yealm . |
| 28 | ‘ It takes all the pressure off us and we can now start to play rugby again , ’ a representative from Ebbw Vale , whose ground is owned by the local authority , said . |
| 29 | Mr Stockdale , who resigned as chairman of Eagle Trust two weeks ago , paid Mr Carway to locate assets purportedly owned by Eagle . |
| 30 | It was Mr Carway who discovered that the holding in Laforza 's parent company , the Jersey-registered AIUK , was only under option to Eagle , not directly owned by it . |