Example sentences of "been sell to [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Schuman Plan had been sold to a French government that was worried about the future political , military and economic potential of the new West German state in part as a means of keeping a check on that potential . |
| 2 | But had they — or someone else — not come in , Price 's would have been sold to a foreign buyer ( an option Shell considered ) , broken up and merged with a rival , or worse , have disappeared altogether , taking 160 years of manufacturing history with it . |
| 3 | Happily , Herstmonceux has not been sold to a corporate buyer seeking to take advantage of this potential cornucopia of planning permissions , but to an American who values the place for its beauty and history . |
| 4 | The Grosvenor House Hotel in Stratford-upon-Avon , Warwickshire , has been sold to an overseas investment company . |
| 5 | Fifty million copies of The Shoe People by James Driscoll have been sold to the Soviet Union as part of a three-year , £16m deal which includes televison rights . |
| 6 | A spokesman for the Scottish Home and Health Department confirmed that the facility had been sold to the highest bidder , but declined to reveal the purchase price . |
| 7 | By the early 1990s most of the remaining state-owned industry will have been sold to the private sector . |
| 8 | The centre , one of the largest in Europe , has now been sold to the privately-owned property company Chelsfield . |
| 9 | A Nottinghamshire mining equipment company which went into receivership in September has been sold to the three men who founded the firm two decades ago . |
| 10 | Ten of the British-built vehicles have been sold to the United Nations in a recession-busting deal worth over half a million pounds . |