Example sentences of "company [vb past] be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only 49 per cent of companies surveyed were paid by 75 per cent or more of their customers within the agreed credit period and 20 per cent said that half their customer were failing to pay on time . |
| 2 | According to the Middle East Times of June 11-17 , up to 115 of the 150 public-sector companies had been selected for privatization . |
| 3 | Almost 100 new companies had been formed , and Schach had been able to secure over a million pounds in bank guarantees to finance not only such expensive disasters as Dreaming Lips , Love from a Stranger and The Marriage of Gorbal , but even films that were never made . |
| 4 | Previously only joint ventures with foreign companies had been taxed . |
| 5 | More than 2,000 companies had been earmarked for privatization in March . |
| 6 | Fujitsu Ltd has come out with a new multimedia multiplexer in its DMIX series , one of a series of multiplexers designed for its Network Solution 2000 network architecture : the new E-2570 DMIX has a capacity of 10 data channels and six speech voice channels , and comes between the large capacity E-2570 DMIX and the compact E-2300 series Compact MUX ; Fujitsu expects to sell 5,000 units over three years , starting in June , at a price of $73,000 ) ; the E-2500 series DMIX and E-2300 series Compact MUX were released in September last year and Fujitsu says by the end of last month , sales to 100 companies had been made . |
| 7 | In October 1917 , minute 27640 states : The Acting General Manager mentioned that in connection with the aeroplanes which the Railway Companies had been asked to construct for the government , the L & NW had undertaken at Wolverton a share of the work , i.e. construction of wings . |
| 8 | The companies had been placed on the blacklist after being accused of offering " kickbacks " to win an oil pipeline contract . |
| 9 | This report accepted that unemployment had risen within the LDDC from about 3,500 in 1981 to about 5,000 in 1986 ; that approximately eighty companies had been relocated out of the area through compulsory purchases implemented by the LDDC ; and that many locals were not gaining from the corporation 's activities . |
| 10 | For many years both companies had been associated in the public 's mind as loss-making nationalised industries . |
| 11 | As reported on June 22 , the government announced that 20-year contracts would be offered to several companies to explore and develop marginal oil fields , the first time commercial companies had been allowed to do so since the nationalization of the oil industry in 1976 . |
| 12 | Gresham chairman Sid Green professed himself ‘ modestly satisfied ’ with the company 's pre-tax profit of £767,000 on sales of £7.25m — last year 's sales were £6.29m but the two companies had been combined for only part of the accounting period . |
| 13 | A significant number of companies had been forced into liquidation , and potentially viable businesses capable of being rescued had been closed down , for want of such a floating charge . |
| 14 | The Guardian of April 18 reported that nearly 2,000 state-controlled companies had been forced to file for bankruptcy after an April 16 deadline for the repayment of their debts . |
| 15 | The privatization of the 12 regional electricity companies had been carried out by means of a share offer , raising gross proceeds of £5,200 million , which opened on Nov , 21 , 1990 and closed on Dec. 5 ; stock exchange dealings in shares in these companies had followed on Dec. 11 . |
| 16 | By nightfall all the rifle companies had been over-run ; some sections , and platoons from these companies extricated themselves at nightfall . |
| 17 | Four consulting companies had been sold . |
| 18 | Enabling legislation for the electricity privatization had been introduced in November 1988 [ see p. 36504 ] and enacted in July 1989 [ see p. 36820 ] , and the 12 regional electricity companies had been sold in December 1990 . |
| 19 | By June 1991 , however , still only seven of the 28 companies had been sold and eight others were in liquidation . |
| 20 | If it had done so , and had included among such grounds the case where the company had been formed with the purpose of defrauding creditors … the Spanish court would have been entitled to give effect to it notwithstanding the terms of the Directive ( p 32 ) . |
| 21 | The South Sea Company had been formed under a Tory administration in 1710 . |
| 22 | This purchase of a ‘ shell ’ company was the first time that the manoeuvre had been executed and the first time that a bookmaking company had been floated on the Stock Exchange . |
| 23 | The St Petersburg company had been criticized for increasingly right-wing broadcasting . |
| 24 | This was the first time a company had been invited to give a product demonstration at the centre and were keen to present the merits of their product . |
| 25 | Though the group 's branded business grew , the main problem was a 14 per cent drop in the sale of bulk whisky overseas , partly because the company had been undercut by other suppliers and also because the export market for bulk product cut its stocks in anticipation of price cuts . |
| 26 | Among its main points were : * the total emissions from ICI plants of pollutants to land , air and water fell from 8.6 million tonnes in 1990 to 8.3 million tons in 1991 ( down 3.7 per cent ) ; * the company had been prosecuted 36 times in 1990 and 26 times in 1991 for environmental offences , with the number of prosecutions falling in every country of operation with the exception of Britain ; * production of hazardous waste fell from 678 tonnes in 1990 to 476 tonnes in 1991 ( down 29.8 per cent ) ; * the amounts of " non-hazardous " waste dumped in landfills and in the North Sea increased , from 3,509 tons to 3,565 tons and from 150 to 170 tons respectively ; * overall energy consumption fell by 6 per cent in 1991 ( partly due to the sale of 20 subsidiaries and falling product sales ) ; * the company 's expenditure on environment-related projects reached £300 million in 1991 . |
| 27 | Alcatel spokesman John Highhams confirmed last night his company had been promised the contract if the project was given the green light in the Chancellor 's Autumn statement . |
| 28 | His own company had been paid his freelance fee by the BBC and he was taxed on what he paid himself as a salary from the company 's turnover . |
| 29 | The whole thing did n't take very long ; just over a year after his freedom of the Weavers ' Company had been approved , William Charles Titford , Linen Draper , ‘ Son of Charles Titford of Frome , Somersetshire , Cheesemonger , ’ became free of the City , ‘ … paying unto Mr Chamberlain for this City 's use the Sum of forty six shillings and eight pence ’ . |
| 30 | The company had been ordered on Oct. 8 to suspend temporarily all such " own account " stock trading . |