Example sentences of "[art] company [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Company developed a world-wide shipping empire which now , some 150 years later , has further developed into a major international group of companies with widespread interests and a workforce of some 48,000 people in locations around the world . |
| 2 | On sales of FFr1.8 billion ( $133m ) , the company suffered a net loss of FFr1.1 billion . |
| 3 | Commenting on its fiscal 1993 figures , which saw the company soar through the $2,000m sales mark for the year ( see page five ) Dell Computer Corp said cash and investments totalled $95m at January 31 , down from $155m at the beginning of the fiscal year , but the company added a new $200m revolving line of credit with nine multinational banks ; it invested $47m in capital expenditures over the course of the year , primarily in telecommunications , facilities expansion and systems . |
| 4 | Despite the downturn , Hugh Lang , chairman , said , the company produced a creditable performance , particularly when compared with the results of many of its competitors , and that firm managment of cash resources had resulted in an excellent balance sheet position . |
| 5 | The Company produced a new rule book , instructing crews that when working over the section from Selby Road to West Croydon , they must avoid altercations with Corporation staff at all costs and behave as though they were employees of the Corporation themselves . |
| 6 | The Company laid a main and supplied its own cottages from the tanks at Wolverton c1888 . |
| 7 | The Company offers a wide range of benefits associated with a modern and progressive employer including : |
| 8 | A detailed leaflet with illustrations is available for self-assembly , but the company offers a complete installation service as well . |
| 9 | The Company Securities ( Insider Dealing Act 1985 ) provides that a person ( ‘ the buyer ’ ) who knowingly obtains information , directly or indirectly , from an individual ( ‘ the insider ’ ) who is or has been during the preceding six months ‘ knowingly connected ’ with the company commits a criminal offence if the buyer deals on a recognised Stock Exchange in securities of that company when the buyer : — |
| 10 | The contract involved the company receiving a 50-year lease on 278 hectares of land . |
| 11 | Section 320 Companies Act 1985 provides that if a director of a company or its parent or holding company , or a person connected with him , enters into a contract with the company , under which the director or person connected with him agrees to purchase the company or assets ( other than cash ) of the company exceeding a certain value , then the contract must be approved in a general meeting by ordinary resolution . |
| 12 | NCA 's hangar and ramp complex at Hal Safi is capable of taking a wide variety of types , and the company undertakes a wide range of maintenance work in addition to its refurbishing and converting business . |
| 13 | Finding that their efforts are doomed to failure , what more natural than that they should cause the company to execute a floating charge in their favour to secure the loans so that if anything is left , after the claims of the prior chargees are satisfied , they take it rather than the unsecured creditors ? |
| 14 | Large-scale redundancies , particularly where the company employs a sizeable proportion of the workforce , are liable to result in a substantial reduction in local purchasing power ; this may in turn have a knock-on effect on other local businesses and on local tax revenues and hence municipally-provided services , and the ensuing high level of unemployment is likely to contribute more generally to a weakening of community relations . |
| 15 | The company mounted a rear-guard defence of its three-pronged operating system strategy last week — OSF/1 , NT and OpenVMS — but it had left a lot of substance on the cutting room floor before finally calling together top industry watchers in Maynard , Massachusetts , and around the world for the ‘ Unified Unix ’ strategy briefing ( UX No 386 ) . |
| 16 | In 1906 the company took a full-page advertisement in the London telephone directory , from which you can see that home listeners could choose their evening 's entertainment from 14 London theatres : Aldwych , Alhambra , Apollo , Daly 's , Drury Lane , Empire , Gaiety , Lyric , Palace , Pavilion , Prince of Wales 's , Savoy , Shaftesbury and the Tivoli , plus concerts from the Queen 's Hall and Royal Albert Hall . |
| 17 | Although the company made a net profit of $10.5 million in 1987 it took a hard-line response over the strike : out of the 5000 who went out , 2000 workers were estimated to have been sacked . |
| 18 | After the nationalization of the coffee industry in 1979 , the company made a good deal with INCAFE , the state marketing board . |
| 19 | The company made a large profit exporting wholly unsuitable milk powder to Africa , where there was no pure water to mix it with . |
| 20 | The company made a large profit when that line was nationalized . |
| 21 | The company made a whopping net loss of $279m , down from a loss last time of $298m , and operating profit slumped 61% to $171m . |
| 22 | The company made a whopping net loss of $279m , down from a loss last time of $298m , and operating profit slumped 61% to $171m . |
| 23 | The company made a disastrous start in February 1983 and found profitability only when it went down market under new management and ownership ( partly Australian ) . |
| 24 | Shareholder , investment analyst and press criticism of Philips Analytical 's performance over the past two years — not all justified according to Peter Jackson , regional manager for northern Europe — led the company to take a long , hard look at itself . |
| 25 | As well as the new CM-5 Scale 3 , the company announced a new file server architecture that again integrates file storage directly into the scalable network of CM-5 processing nodes , and claims that when 9.6Gb parallel disk storage nodes are plugged into the network , using RAID 3 technology , it provides a file server with performance comparable to solid state secondary storage — now . |
| 26 | Shares in had to be suspended on the Paris stock exchange collapsing after the company announced a massive loss . |
| 27 | And the company stressed a major attraction was the number of jobs created . |
| 28 | The company came a long way in the 1980s , but only because the leopard changed its spots by making the transition from selection to search . |
| 29 | Cupertino , California-based Globetrotter Software Inc , creator of Flexlm , the network licence manager , last week introduced GlobeSupport , a remote support programme aimed at software developers , which the company calls a new product category . |
| 30 | The actor acted in a highly successful film and the company received a substantial sum for his services , paying the actor a small fee and paying an interim dividend to the trust . |