Example sentences of "[noun sg] company had " in BNC.
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| 1 | Darlington MP Michael Fallon , who toured the town with Mr Hamilton , said North-East companies had prospered as a result of defence contracts . |
| 2 | The dock company had made no secret of the fact that this would occur and the council was fully aware of this during its consideration of the dock company 's planning application . |
| 3 | The statement made by the timber firm to the dock company had not come to the attention of the innocent purchaser ; it therefore could not have misled him . |
| 4 | The House of Lords held that the defendant company was not guilty ; the commission of the offence was due to the default of ‘ another person ’ ( the store manager ) and the defendant company had , by instituting an effective system , taken all reasonable precautions , etc. , in the circumstances . |
| 5 | The public had been most incensed at the relative simplicity with which the Royal Mail company had been relieved of their entrusted money . |
| 6 | One reason for this was the lesson Philips and other consumer electronics companies had learned about the importance of global standardisation . |
| 7 | When the MMC 's report was published , the four biggest brewery companies had 58 per cent . |
| 8 | Abolition of the rule preventing practice under limited liability has led to very considerable growth in this form of organisation and , by 1988 , the proportion of practices which had formed limited liability companies had grown to 7.5 per cent of the total . |
| 9 | According to Greenpeace , German waste management companies had refused to handle the waste because of the high dioxin content . |
| 10 | On Oct. 5 the consortium led by the US Bell Atlantic Telephone Company had withdrawn from the purchase of Entelnor , which was eventually bought by a consortium formed by the Italian state telecommunications company STET SpA , France Cable and Radio ( part of French Telcomm ) , Perez Co ( a local oil , fishing and banking group ) and the US bankers J.P . |
| 11 | That was less than many analysts had expected , partly because the parent company had decided to defer its ‘ management fee ’ ( 3% of gross revenues until 1997 , when it rises to 6% ) until Euro Disney becomes profitable . |
| 12 | The Filmophone Company had a great deal of legal trouble with the British branch of another company , the German ‘ Phonycord GmbH ’ . |
| 13 | They also found themselves in opposition to certain local commercial interests as a fair number of shares in the mining company had been sold to people in the area , and thus certain local people had a vested interest in mining going ahead . |
| 14 | It was reported on Feb. 5 that a Thai mining company had recently become the first foreign company to be awarded an offshore tin-prospecting concession in Myanma . |
| 15 | The previous year , BASF , Bayer , Hoechst , Agfa and a number of smaller German companies had come together in the Interes-sengemeinschaft Farbenindustrie ( IG Farben ) . |
| 16 | Within three years , American broadcasters and record companies had abandoned discs as a mastering medium . |
| 17 | Most record companies had standard label designs which were printed in large quantities , while the details specific to the actual issue in question were overprinted using one colour of ink . |
| 18 | Before the days of portable recording machines which everyone could carry with them , record companies had to use great imagination to fill their catalogues with new and interesting material . |
| 19 | Film and record companies had wanted a tax to help curb the video-pirates . |
| 20 | After the major record companies had turned it down , Right Said Fred had it remixed ( borrowing money from Lloyds Bank , Putney ) and Holmes formed a record label , Tug . |
| 21 | Only large record companies had access to sufficient finance to make that kind of investment . |
| 22 | By 1929 the Duophone Unbreakable Record Company had established a large factory to make similar records , the core of which was a thick slab of fibrous cardboard . |
| 23 | The record company had been lending it to me for the last six months , but they gave it to me at the London gig as a present because Andy MacDonald — the feller who owns the company — was so into the gig ! |
| 24 | The record company had now moved from Vernon Yard to larger premises , beyond the canal , railway tracks and council estates . |
| 25 | As the record company had grown , it too had been broken down into smaller units : DinDisc had been a model for two more affiliated labels , 10 and Siren . |
| 26 | They were concerned the council estate could be cut off if United and Darlington Transport Company had stopped all services because of the speed humps . |
| 27 | The mortgage company had acted with forbearance , only taking them to court as a last resort . |
| 28 | Lord Sterling said the group 's service companies had held up remarkably well in difficult conditions and the cruise division had produced a marked improvement in results . |
| 29 | The trading companies had a mixed year . |
| 30 | Although the water company had legal consent to discharge sewage effluent , the judge ruled that there was no legal immunity against damage done by detergents in the discharge . |