Example sentences of "[art] company was " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I decided it was time to say goodbye , but before I could give notice Sam Hall , the Benskin 's area manager , phoned me to say the company was going to turn the Harrow into a managed house . |
| 2 | The company was acquired last year by the regional brewer Riva , best known for its Dentergens wheat beer . |
| 3 | The company was forced to replace both its chairman and its chief executive after the losses were announced . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Clive Thompson , chief executive of Rentokil , said the company was only a small player in the US timber preserving market and had decided to concentrate on the UK , European and Asian markets where Rentokil has large market shares . |
| 6 | The company was orginally involved in textiles but has diversifed into refrigeration and electrical activities . |
| 7 | Barry Cox , LWT communications director , said that the company was unable to comment or discuss the scheme before publication . |
| 8 | He decided that the company was justified and that the nature of the disease was irrelevant . |
| 9 | At one stage the company was valued at just A$97.3m ( £49.1m ) . |
| 10 | Sales of Air Mail advertising increased by25% during the year and the company was able to covenant a useful profit to the Association . |
| 11 | The important issue for me as chairman throughout that period was to remember that once the Prime Minister had said that Westland was a private-sector problem which must be solved by private-sector measures and techniques , one 's interests were obviously the shareholders , the employees , the customers and the banks , since the company was heavily indebted . |
| 12 | As far as the company was concerned , as one drifted nearer to insolvency , any rescuer who appeared would have been welcome provided we 'd been absolutely assured at the critical time when the loss of £92m was announced that a rescue was legally binding , underwritten and in place . |
| 13 | The company was to be the right assault company in the battlegroup attack . |
| 14 | The move across open ground involved covering about 1,500 metres , but , with the fireplan to cover the company , and with the speed and protection the Warriors afforded , the company was certain it would across the featureless landscape that surrounded the enemy 's position . |
| 15 | At the time , the company was called Birch & Birch . |
| 16 | But the company was inconsistent enough to employ Ivor Montagu , a Film Society stalwart , to re-edit The Lodger . |
| 17 | Although Gaumont-British also declared a loss in 1937 , of £98,000 , Balcon 's departure from the company was precipitated by the prospect of Maxwell , a man whose production philosophy he abhorred , taking a stake in the company , and a general sense that he was n't going to be able to continue the same broad-based production policy as before . |
| 18 | Analysts added , however , that the company was expected to attract interest from Japan and Europe . |
| 19 | I believe the company was sacrificed . |
| 20 | Ford of America stressed yesterday that there would be no ‘ significant ’ changes in the way the company was run after announcing that Mr Donald Petersen , chairman for the past decade , is to retire . |
| 21 | The next day , Mr Goodwin 's source telephoned him with information including the amount the company was trying to borrow , and the projected results for the current accounting year . |
| 22 | The company was putting a brave face on it yesterday , as can only be expected . |
| 23 | An electricity generating company in California sued a laboratory which failed to properly document its analysis ; the company was trying to recover from the laboratory the costs of settling a suit for unfair dismissal brought by an employee who lost her job because of the test . |
| 24 | Its International Vice-President , Mr Rod Fisk , asked whether the company was concerned over how the uranium might be used , said : ‘ That 's a question you have to address to the US Government . ’ |
| 25 | The meeting comes amid fresh allegations from members of the music panel that they were press-ganged into rubber- stamping the council 's decision to withdraw all subsidy from Kent Opera , although full information about the company was kept from them . |
| 26 | The company was founded by Mr De Haan 's father and two of his brothers also work for the group . |
| 27 | A BP spokesman said that the company was taking no action to seek alternative methods of transport until events in Panama became clearer . |
| 28 | Two months ago the company was confident that sponsorships would be in place by Christmas . |
| 29 | Though both Cable & Wireless and the Hong Kong Government sold shares when the company was floated on the stock market , the government is not thought likely to join in the sale of the stake to CITIC , though it is aware of the negotiations . |
| 30 | As for MTM ( which took its name from US actress Mary Tyler Moore , its founder , and is best known in Britain for Hill Street Blues and Lou Grant ) Mr Gatward said it would take between 18 months to two years before the company was turned around . |