Example sentences of "[num] [prep] [art] [noun sg] companies " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only three of the electricity companies gave satisfactory advice . |
| 2 | Robertson was chairman of three of the railway companies of north Wales as well as the Wirral Railways Company ; chairman of the Minera Lime Company , the Broughton and Plas Power Coal Company , the Brymbo Steel Company , and the Brymbo Water Company ; and director of the Wrexham , Mold & Connah 's Quay Railway Company . |
| 3 | The only ‘ regional ’ element in the arrangement was that three of the network companies ( Granada , Central and Yorkshire ) out of the five ( since Yorkshire joined in 1968 ) had a base outside London ; so that Granada 's Coronation Street , say , had ‘ authentic regional accents ’ ( quite an innovation in their time ) and escaped a metropolitan bias . |
| 4 | There is a special régime for insurance companies which are authorised to conduct business under sections 3 or 4 of the Insurance Companies Act 1982 . |
| 5 | Initially it was founded and financed by the Corporation of the City of London and 16 of the livery companies , hence its name . |
| 6 | He was keen to encourage her and prepared to see her move on into one of the operating companies . |
| 7 | It was a sponsored project , probably by one of the drug companies but I 'm not sure . |
| 8 | It 's one it 's o one of the drug companies . |
| 9 | Even the Financial Times noted the fact that Conor Haughey , the Managing Director of one of the mining companies , Feltrim Mining , is a son of Charles Haughey . |
| 10 | and or merchandising for one of the confectionery companies whatever . |
| 11 | One of the electronics companies was staying In a declining market and trying to increase its share by increasing its competitiveness . |
| 12 | In December 1920 , during a US Senate Sub-Committee hearing in Washington , one of the cable companies publicly revealed the duress under which it had been placed by the British Government . |
| 13 | It does not exist where one of the parent companies may alone decide upon a joint venture company 's commercial activities . |
| 14 | But when you have a situation where youngsters of 12 or 13 — and in some cases even younger — who may only have won a couple of matches , are being offered $500,000 guarantees to sign up with one of the management companies before they are snapped up by one of the rival agents , the potential for long term damage is enormous . ’ |
| 15 | Well if that 's case she can go and work for one of the taxi companies and sit in their office and ans |
| 16 | The Commission would have no automatic powers , however , in cases where at least one of the merging companies ( i ) derived less than pounds 1,750 million of its global turnover in the EC ; or ( ii ) derived more than two-thirds of total turnover from a single EC country . |
| 17 | In 1930 one of the railway companies was persuaded to reserve a carriage , with restaurant , exclusively for the club , this ‘ Arsenal carriage ’ being shunted onto the train for the journey . |
| 18 | He brings a large , but incomplete , map of the village and surrounding area , saying that he 's been approached by one of the railway companies who are interested in building a railway line to Seatown , and that they have asked him to have the map updated . |
| 19 | The final message was from Andrew Buccleuth , who told me that the shares in one of the leisure companies which I followed closely had dropped a further 20p during the day . |
| 20 | Before going to the shooting competition , he visited one of the rifle companies doing selection tests for promotion to Lance Corporal . |
| 21 | In two of the engineering companies the unions had insisted that temporary workers be guaranteed a minimum period of employment . |