Example sentences of "company and [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The parliament dissolved in February 1990 passed a comprehensive Companies Act and an Act on Foreign Investments in 1988 , and in 1989 an act on conversion of state enterprises and co-operatives into companies and also a statute reforming the land law in state and co-operative ownership . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm a major shareholder in a number of companies and consequently a director of them . |
| 3 | It contains a sensible stimulus , a great deal more federal spending , an energy tax , a guarantee of higher income tax for people and companies and only a promise of future spending cuts . |
| 4 | A director is an officer of the company and implicitly an agent of the company . |
| 5 | Bournville , the community that has grown up around Cadbury 's Birmingham factory , is widely regarded as a company town , although from its foundation it has been open to people who do not work for the company and only a minority of the residents now have any link with Cadbury 's . |
| 6 | When Jimmy Johnstone 's bar closed , he was forced to take a series of menial jobs as a lorry driver firstly with Lafferty 's Construction Company and then a labourer 's job with a gas contractor 's , where , ironically , he had to dig gas pipe-lines which ran past Willie Johnson 's pub . |