Example sentences of "company [was/were] [verb] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The courts certainly wish to avoid a reduction in the market for automobiles which would happen if finance companies were forced out of business as a result of imposing liabilities upon them to all and sundry . |
| 2 | Surging mergers and acquisitions — £21 billion ( $33 billion ) worth of British companies were taken over in 1989 , compared with £6.3 billion five years earlier . |
| 3 | New companies were set up by public subscription , and there was a substantial increase in the number of films produced . |
| 4 | As one of the final stages in the government 's privatization programme , three major state-owned steel companies were sold off on Nov. 20 for a total price of $885,000,000 . |
| 5 | A MASSIVE shake-up among Scandinavian insurance companies was unleashed yesterday with a £244m bid by Sweden 's Skandia for the smaller Hafnia group of Denmark . |
| 6 | Clients of one firm who were pushed into the shares of a restaurant company were pulled out of them once the price started to rise . |
| 7 | The company was floated shortly after that with the shares selling at six times the auditors ' valuation . |
| 8 | The company was functioning well as a business entity and making inroads all the time creatively . |
| 9 | In the early years , the company was involved mainly in financing imports of raw materials and factory equipment , and its chief shareholders were the leading French banks . |
| 10 | During the Seventies , the company was taken over by Valor . |
| 11 | The company was taken over by Daimler in the late Twenties . |
| 12 | And a friend at college had an uncle whose company was taken over by Schreider Sterne . |
| 13 | The former Maxwell company was taken over by the management in a £32.5 million deal , agreed with the administrators , Arthur Andersen . |
| 14 | On 1 July 1932 , the electricity undertaking of the South Metropolitan company was handed over to the London & Home Counties Joint Electricity Authority , who already supplied the current in bulk . |
| 15 | The company was set up at the height of the property boom . |
| 16 | After two years of anxiety , one of the finest seams of steam coal in the world was struck in the Maendy pit , Cwmparc , and the Ocean Collieries Company was set up in 1867 with an authorized capital of £240,000 . |
| 17 | The company was set up in 1970 to sell Courtelle acrylic fibre made in Calais , staffed mostly by French people and managed for many years by a Frenchman , . |
| 18 | The company was set up by Mr W.C. Dann and , within a few years , had a workforce of over a hundred . |
| 19 | The Spanish were sometimes justified in thinking that a pirate base was precisely what English companies had in mind ; in the 1630s the providence Island Company was set up by determined Protestants who thought that plundering Catholic ships would be rewarded in this world and the next , though other Englishmen , who settled informally on the east coast of central America , were concerned with felling trees and exporting logwood as a dye-stuff . |
| 20 | The company was set up by Jeremy Green last October , on the basis of market research showing considerable ‘ pent-up demand ’ for this sort of service . |
| 21 | The sponsorship deal between the school and the film company was set up by a former Downs School pupil , who now manages the Phoenix Cinema . |
| 22 | The company was worked consistently over the years to develop special knowledge and expertise in particular areas e.g. chiral compounds and building blocks ; quaternary ammonium compounds for phase transfer catalysis and electrochemistry ; silylating agents ; a range of products for ion-selective electrode work and a comprehensive range of highly purified reagents for bio-chemistry marked under trade name Micro-Select . |
| 23 | Up to 60 staff at S and S Press in Abingdon were told yesterday the company was going out of business and their services were no longer required . |
| 24 | Then they were formal again , and the company was trooping out of the courtyard and into the cold breeze that billowed down from the distant mountains , their faces set towards the east . |
| 25 | ‘ If a company was coming in from Japan or America , they would probably get some sort of aid for creating jobs . ’ |
| 26 | Laing admits that the Spanish company was bought out of desperation and it cost United Biscuits dearly . |
| 27 | Within two years the liquidators were called in and the company was wound up in 1987 . |
| 28 | The company was wound up in the High Court in February 1989 with tax debts of £35,520 . |
| 29 | The NFC has been the outstanding example where for seven years the company was owned entirely by the workforce . |