Example sentences of "company [vb past] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | This brings in sanctions against foreign companies found to be contributing to the proliferation of these weapons . |
| 2 | Canal companies tried to be self sufficient and carry out repair jobs in their own premises . |
| 3 | I can understand that with competitions it is correct for employees of all companies involved to be excluded from entry , but surely there is not a problem in selling Hovis to your employees , or any other product for that matter ? |
| 4 | In 1979 NBDC devised a scheme whereby control of both companies came to be vested in a new holding company , TBL , with an authorised share capital of £1,000 divided into 1,000 £1 shares . |
| 5 | It may be so , if it is a personal Christmas card list , for example ; but if the same modest list were to be headed ‘ suspected sympathisers with the X Party ’ ( or the Y terrorist group ) , or ‘ directors of companies believed to be trading with country Z ’ — there could be danger to those on the list if it fell into the hands of evil-minded zealots — and perhaps then the shorter the list the greater the danger . |
| 6 | In the design and layout of the housing , the new villages like Blidworth , Harworth and Ollerton bore the imprint of the ideas about planned communities ( such as garden villages ) extant at the time , and the companies claimed to be establishing model communities ( Griffin , 1971 , pp. 168–70 ; Waller , 1983 , pp. 254ff . ) . |
| 7 | In the early 1970s the cynical and exploitative role of multinational companies appeared to be confirmed as it became clear that Shell and BP , the latter half-owned by the British government , were the principal source of oil supplies to the outlawed Smith regime of Rhodesia . |
| 8 | Roh 's entourage included Cabinet ministers , diplomats and the heads of 20 major companies said to be interested in joint ventures in the Soviet Union . |
| 9 | Companies had to be exposed to the full rigour of the market — so they would feel the full impact of success and failure . |
| 10 | The Ministry of Labour on Feb. 4 , 1990 said that 15 per cent of any new recruits for private companies had to be Bahrainis . |
| 11 | The companies had to be paid in their own currencies , at a much less favourable exchange rate than last year . |
| 12 | These companies tended to be characterized by a series of activities : |
| 13 | Such companies tended to be in a wide range of businesses ; they thus lacked ‘ focus ’ and adequate scale . |
| 14 | The leading high technology companies tended to be American or Japanese , and many European companies were unable to maintain a presence in these markets . |
| 15 | Thus the financial health of the company seemed to be of more importance than the community 's concern over the health of its children . |
| 16 | Early in 1991 , Sony 's UK company seemed to be firmly in charge of both hardware and software strategy . |
| 17 | Similarly , the Britons Society and Publishing Company appeared to be nothing more than a minuscule middle-class organization with a bee in its bonnet about Jews . |
| 18 | Last year the company appeared to be overcoming the sector 's worst problems after the £58 million sale of its interest in Aberdeen 's Bon Accord Centre to Land Securities and the £31 million decision by Coca-Cola to relocate its headquarters to the group 's Centre West building in west London . |
| 19 | Its charter , unlike most of the others , did not say that meetings of the directors of the Company had to be held in England . |
| 20 | This agreement was renewed four times , the last in 1515 , but eventually the company had to be released from its responsibility on grounds of poverty . |
| 21 | In Arenson v Casson Beckman Rutley & Co [ 1975 ] 3 WLR 815 an agreement provided that shares in a private company had to be sold back to the plaintiff 's uncle on the plaintiff leaving the business ; the price of the shares was to be the fair value as determined by the company 's auditors , whose valuation acting as experts and not as arbitrators was to be final and binding on all parties . |
| 22 | The tension of being in his company had to be getting to her . |
| 23 | The chartered company continued to be regarded as the best type of organization for carrying on overseas trade , but a grant to an individual proprietor began to be seen as the best way to set up a new colony to which settlers would come to cultivate the land . |