Example sentences of "the company [verb] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The companies had initially encouraged the ‘ quality ’ and lavished their attention on first-class passengers . |
| 2 | In the case of both Interleaf and Xerox 's Documenter the companies have also recognised the importance of being able to accept textual or graphic information from other sources and this is something that we would expect to see other vendors follow suit on . |
| 3 | erm Because the loggers have been , as I said earlier , logging 24 hours around the clock , and they 're supposed to be logging over a 70 year cycle , and they 're not because the companies have only got three year licenses , and basically the indigenous people have just had enough , so they started to block the logging roads . |
| 4 | And as the squabble boiled over , the company threatened never to return if the theatre pressed for lost bar takings , estimated to be £1,650 . |
| 5 | Provided that the Cabinet was aware of the company 's power , which of course it was , the company had little need to campaign or lobby for its case . |
| 6 | The company had already built a road up the side of the mountain without planning permission . |
| 7 | Financial problems aside , the company had already received the kiss of death in that , two years ago , the Department of Trade and Industry chose to feature it as a prime example of the Enterprise Initiative . |
| 8 | The company had already obtained agreement from most of its creditors to forgive around half its DM2.7 billion debt . |
| 9 | The company had already decided to separate drivers and passengers of heavy goods vehicles and motorcycles from their vehicles . |
| 10 | A Sotheby 's New York spokeswoman declined to say how much the company had already spent on the treasure over the last two years but acknowledged that it had been ‘ very , very expensive ’ . |
| 11 | George Taylor , spokesman for Presto stores , said the company had already put in a security barrier and were about to finalise talks with businesses which share the car park . |
| 12 | The company had already anticipated that . |
| 13 | Prior to the Ultramar acquisition , the Company had already assembled an extensive international land portfolio . |
| 14 | Although the company had already agreed to continue paying existing pensioners , it had not made any commitment for past and present employees retiring now and in the future . |
| 15 | An argument developed because Mr Brown told her that the new chauffeur the company had just taken on could use her car while she was away , as the car that had been ordered for him had not arrived . |
| 16 | The company had just reopened following a shutdown after a similar incident in March . |
| 17 | The company had also trimmed £46,000 from its advertising budget , and would be putting up the price of cards from 20p to 25p . |
| 18 | Meanwhile , it turns out that Mips Technologies Inc 's next generation T5 iteration of the R series RISC is what will be released next year as the R5000 , not the R10000 as the company had previously indicated ( UX No 377 ) . |
| 19 | Mr. Booker said that the company had since fitted blocks on top of all their surface water drains and that a four foot wall has been built around the washing area . |
| 20 | After more than ten years of approaching various banks , the company had finally proved its staying power . |
| 21 | Management would say nothing after the talks , but John Kydd , divisional organiser of the AEEU , said the company had effectively delivered an ultimatum to the union to accept virtually the same package as was rejected by sacked workers nearly two weeks ago or the factory could close . |
| 22 | Michael Kalisher , for Birds Eye , said there was no way the company had deliberately flouted the law . |
| 23 | Adrian Longden , NALGO 's district officer , said that although times were hard , the company had still made a profit of more than £1 billion in the last financial year . |
| 24 | Small wonder that the company had earlier petitioned without success to be allowed to manufacture battery — plates , vessels etc. from the refined metal , for it appears that there was a ready sale and it was a more profitable manner of disposing of the metal . |
| 25 | Far better therefore , like everything else the company had ever done , to produce it themselves . |
| 26 | Both the Corporation and the Company had always turned trolleys with a hooked bamboo pole . |
| 27 | A spokesman for Vickers , which employs 1,800 staff equally split between plants in Leeds and Newcastle , said the company had always believed the order would go to the French . |
| 28 | Vargas claimed that the company had recently called in the military to protect one of its sites against armed tribesmen . |
| 29 | The Review Panel had been considering Trafalgar 's accounts for the year to 30 September 1991 since February , but the company had consistently refused to capitulate . |
| 30 | The company had originally planned on using 50MHz Vikings in the Series 6 but with those being unobtainable , they will only come as upgrades . |