Example sentences of "the company have [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The companies had been closely linked with the King 's court , and were also open to attack because they were monopolies . |
| 2 | The companies had been placed on the blacklist after being accused of offering " kickbacks " to win an oil pipeline contract . |
| 3 | The companies have been arch rivals ever since and it 's only fitting now that the two main rivals in the so-called ‘ old school trainers ’ wars are Adidas and Puma . |
| 4 | Indeed , the companies have been at pains to demonstrate the technology 's feasibility : the CeBit show saw a demonstration of isoEnet in action on NatSemi 's stand and it has published a White Paper on it . |
| 5 | Mr. Robert Hughes : If the Minister will say that , once all the companies have been sold he will publish the individual price , I at least will be willing to meet him halfway and accept that . |
| 6 | Yesterday Mr Olsen said the company had been approached by CITIC about the possible purchase of a holding back in November and the talks had reached a point at which they had had to be made public . |
| 7 | He admitted that the company had been accused by some customers of sexism , but rejected the criticism . |
| 8 | The Company had been under an obligation to complete the line by 15 August 1905 , but obtained an extension of time when it was discovered that the power supply from Beckenham would not be ready until I April 1906 . |
| 9 | The company had been working with DBase III , but without much joy , simply because of the system 's relative inflexibility and technical complexity . |
| 10 | The company had been well placed to take advantage of the 1960s consumer boom , and was already prospering by the time Horsley joined the Board in 1963 , at the age of twenty-nine . |
| 11 | The company had been good , the talk relaxing and buoyant , but limited for all that . |
| 12 | For instance , shares in OTC-traded Burrough , the Beefeater gin business , leapt from 445p to £12 , after the company had been bought up by Whitbread . |
| 13 | The silverware had been designed and made by Mr. George Hart , of Chipping Campden in Gloucestershire , a craftsman in precious metals , to whom the freedom of the Company had been awarded in recognition of his outstanding work as a craftsman . |
| 14 | Mr Haynes explained that the earlier surge in borrowings , which had peaked at £5.2m in December 1990 , had arisen because the company had been publishing too many books on the general publishing side ( as opposed to the car and motor cycle manuals which are Haynes ' core activity ) . |
| 15 | Relations with the four hundred or so different acts that had passed through the company had been , for the most part , harmonious . |
| 16 | If the company had been solvent and considering a civil action against the Bank , it would not be allowed to take pretrial depositions from those who may have participated in the fraud . |
| 17 | The company had been valued in 1830 at £30,000 ; by 1858 its capital stood at £436,000 . |
| 18 | Sulivan later wrote that his power over the Company had been ‘ absolute ’ from 1757 to 1763 . |
| 19 | Conversation had started up among the customers in the tavern again , although two had left while the company had been talking amongst themselves . |
| 20 | In 1991 , the Company had been able to take action to contain the situation , which enabled a break-even for the year to be returned . |
| 21 | Recently , the company had been accused by its rivals of worsening the general problems of the industry by sharp price-cutting . |
| 22 | The company had been ordered on Oct. 8 to suspend temporarily all such " own account " stock trading . |
| 23 | 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 ) . |
| 24 | By this time the company had been crippled by the latest recession and was once again fighting for survival . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The evidence of the lack of independence was the auditor 's involvement in certain transactions to which the company had been a party ; the petitioner failed to obtain details of these transactions and then proceeded to petition to be bought out of the company . |
| 27 | A spokesman for the Industrial Development Board confirmed today that the company had been offered £576,000 in grants last year , before the recession in the computer supplies market became apparent . |
| 28 | The agreement was signed yesterday morning after the company had been in receivership for exactly 18 weeks . |
| 29 | Mrs Holding said the company had been using the chemical to remove PVC from Ferryhill Leisure Centre . |
| 30 | 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 . |