Example sentences of "company have [verb] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Alan Hingston , Executive Director of IDB 's Marketing Development Division , said : ‘ Scandinavia has long been one of IDB 's target regions and business for Northern Ireland companies has developed steadily over the past decade .
2 The previous year , BASF , Bayer , Hoechst , Agfa and a number of smaller German companies had come together in the Interes-sengemeinschaft Farbenindustrie ( IG Farben ) .
3 The water companies have reacted critically to the tougher stance taken by the NRA .
4 Thirteen Japanese companies have banded together as the Tuxedo Promotion Group in support of Unix System Labs ' on-line transaction processing monitor , Tuxedo .
5 Chemical companies have changed dramatically over the past 100 years as have public attitudes towards chemical issues .
6 Scores of multinational companies have set up in the industrial parks on either side of the giant bridge that links Penang island to the mainland .
7 The company has done well in the last year so Mr Jones decides to give himself a 15% rise , the supervisory staff a 10% rise and the non-supervisory staff a 5% rise .
8 A garden tractor company has bounced back from the brink of bankruptcy to become a market leader … despite the recession .
9 The company has promised much in the past but to date failed to perform up to the market 's expectations .
10 Pigs bred for life inside do n't do well outside — so the Pig Improvement Company has come up with a tougher type of pig .
11 This hits application performance , but the company has come up with the innovative idea of letting users run NLMs in protected mode until they are proved stable , after which they can be invited into the same memory segment as the core operating system to boost performance .
12 The general standard of joiner work achieved by this company has improved considerably during the past four years .
13 An insurance company has pulled out of a plan which would have created fifteen hundred jobs near Swindon .
14 Whilst the company had grown significantly during the Wadeville years little could compare with the move to Germiston .
15 Mr Widmer praised the minister for his ‘ sympathetic attitude ’ and said the company had come away from the meeting re-assured that it would not be forced to move .
16 The Flying Thing Theatre Company have popped up with a somewhat irreverent effort which has seemingly borrowed the characters of Tom and Jerry , those rascally cartoon tykes , to strut their talent and agility .
17 Furthermore , he contests , costs at the company have gone up for the simple reason that it has moved into different areas of activity — IBM simply made the mistake of trying to be ‘ all things to all people ’ , and so will never be able to return to the profit levels of the mid-1980s .
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