Example sentences of "[verb] been buy at " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the first time that anyone can remember , the Soviet Union has been buying at the London auction . |
| 2 | The achievement has been bought at a price . |
| 3 | However , this condensation has been bought at a price : developments at Imperial College are often not placed very fully within the context of the British educational scene . |
| 4 | But if the tentative claims for attention of deep , albeit hazy , personal beliefs are consistently ignored , clarity has been bought at a high price : damage to integrity and the loss of real satisfaction . |
| 5 | The success of adults with cystic fibrosis in conducting their lives , education , relationships , and employment has been bought at some cost to the family . |
| 6 | Today 's profit has been bought at the cost of tens of thousands of pay-packets . |
| 7 | A ( 1931 ) nineteen thirty one Lagonda sports car has been bought at auction by a man who owned it more than forty years ago . |
| 8 | The term covers such a wide array of diverse explanations that the survival might have been bought at the cost of radical change to its empirical and normative content . |
| 9 | The undoubted benefits of the greater mathematical rigour which these models incorporate may have been bought at the cost of a loss of perspective on the world ‘ out there ’ . |
| 10 | The power of flight , the companionship of joy and dream had been bought at too high a price . |
| 11 | She said : ‘ They admitted having Ecstasy which had been bought at rave parties . |
| 12 | The man 's brown tricorne hat had come from neither the French nor the British army , but had been bought at the market in the Norman town of Caen . |
| 13 | The agreements with the United States had been bought at the cost of disproportionate cuts in Soviet weaponry and were clearly dictated by the need to reduce military spending , a much heavier relative burden for the USSR than for the United States . |
| 14 | And that support had been bought at the cost of considerably increasing the budget . |
| 15 | Shop fittings which were worth £3,000 and had been bought at an auction by Transom Trading for only £1,500 prior to opening the shop in August 1991 . |
| 16 | The meat , which is part of the EC 's deep-frozen beef mountain , had been bought at low prices by food-processing firms . |