Example sentences of "company be set [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 A recent study of long-term fraud in the United Kingdom ( Levi 1981 ) also documents how companies are set up with the deliberate intention of using them to obtain goods on credit for which payment is never intended to be made .
2 The broad policies of investment trust companies are set out by a board of directors , and as with any limited company they are limited by the articles of association and shareholder approval .
3 New companies were set up by public subscription , and there was a substantial increase in the number of films produced .
4 Directors ' interests in and options over securities of the Company are set out on page 54 .
5 The rights of members of a company are set out in the articles of association .
6 In order to avoid potential debt and environmental liabilities by association with former GDR companies , Mercedes-Benz was buying a 25 per cent share in and management control of LKW-Montagsgesellschaft , a new company being set up by Treuhandanstalt .
7 Izvestiya of March 5 published a letter from Yegor Yakovlev , head of the Ostankino state television and radio company [ for its formation in December see p. 38655 ] , to CIS heads of state , proposing that an international broadcasting company be set up on the basis of the Ostankino company .
8 The company was set up at the height of the property boom .
9 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 .
10 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 , .
11 The company was set up by Mr W.C. Dann and , within a few years , had a workforce of over a hundred .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 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 .
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