Example sentences of "[verb] buy [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He repeated the Comintern formula that " the united front can only be built up from below , by the workers themselves , not as a corrupt bargain of the reformist leaders and disorganisers of the struggle endeavouring to buy off the criticism of the revolutionaries , but as the solid class front of the workers " . |
| 2 | Here 's what you 'll need to buy for the week 's low-fat diet . |
| 3 | The transactions demand is related to the function money performs as a medium of exchange in that a certain quantity of money balances is required by economic transactors simply to purchase the goods and services they expect to buy during the period in question . |
| 4 | The bid price is what the company will give the client , and the offer price is which the client has to buy off the company . |
| 5 | Teachers , too , are assumed by some of the proponents of opting out not to care whether the school , with a changed status , has to buy in the traditional services of local advisers , librarians or in-service training . |
| 6 | Using card sixteen , how much difficulty if any do you have in finding the items you want to buy from the main Post Office ? |
| 7 | Tata Consultancy Services , the Indian company , says it has done a lot of work for Unix System Labs on Unix device drivers and hopes to get more work now that it has bought into the firm ( UX No 378 ) . |
| 8 | Moncreiffe Hill Wood in Perthshire , which the Woodland Trust has bought from the Forestry Commission . |
| 9 | The insolvency department has moved to Southampton based Lyon Pilcher , the Salisbury office is closing down with the loss of four jobs , and Gaynor Harris is back where she started with the Southampton practice ( to be known as Hook Harris ) which she has bought from the old partnership with Charles Bullworthy , with money borrowed from family and friends . |
| 10 | You should n't even consider buying for the new season until you 've consulted our survey , compiled by Steven Seaton . |
| 11 | Say buy to the lady . |
| 12 | Thus , when the discount houses offer to sell bills to the Bank , the latter is in a strong position to influence rates of interest in the bill market by refusing to buy at the rates quoted . |
| 13 | I got there first , ordered a Scotch , and opened the evening paper that I 'd bought on the way . |
| 14 | ‘ It probably wo n't be as bad as you think , ’ said Penry briskly , and launched into a description of the house he 'd bought on the banks of the River Wye near Builth Wells . |
| 15 | We all sat fairly comfortably and ate the things I 'd bought for the occasion . |
| 16 | To a young doctor like myself , these were my ‘ valuables ’ — the Zeiss Ikon microscope in the scuffed leather case , its precious lenses protected from dust by silk covers ; the glass-lidded box of stainless-steel instruments — retractors , forceps , hooks , scissors and needles ; my much-thumbed copy of that heavy-going but essential tome , Gray 's Anatomy ; manuals of pharmacology and pharmacy ; Belding 's Textbook of Clinical Parasitology and Strong 's Prevention and Treatment of Tropical Diseases , both of which I 'd bought at the last minute in the hope that the young man in John Bell & Croyden in Wigmore Street was right when he assured me that they provided ‘ the answers to all tropical problems ’ ; and some bound volumes of the British Medical Journal which I had picked up cheap in Charing Cross Road . |
| 17 | For lunch we had damp oat-cakes we 'd bought at the village shop . |
| 18 | He was scraping the glue away from a broken Chinese blue-and-white bowl he 'd bought in the Portobello Road , and repaired , two fiendishly excited horsemen chasing a timid little fallow-deer . |
| 19 | If the quality I see here is truly representative of all the EX models , then I would certainly recommend them to anyone wanting to buy into the Ibanez range at a reasonable price . |
| 20 | In respect of garage M the appellants agreed to sell and the respondents agreed to buy from the appellants for a period of four years and five months their total requirements of petrol for resale . |
| 21 | It is known that wealthy industrialists joining the upper class by virtue of a newly acquired spending power , sought to buy into the status of the latter by becoming landowners and patrons of art . |
| 22 | Less easy as it goes along , so we 've got , start by saying loaf of , what do you want to buy at the moment ? |
| 23 | On this basis , the utility reduction has been felt not when the real resources are used buy in the future when interest payment and repayments are made , i.e. there has been forward shifting in time . |
| 24 | The strongest activity has been at the bottom end of the market , where there is considerable pent-up demand from first-time buyers who have delayed buying over the past few years , for fear that house prices would fall further . |
| 25 | As Caroline told me : ‘ Once you have indicated that you like to buy from the comfort of your armchair , other companies assume you will want to know about the products they have to sell in the same way ’ . |
| 26 | We also a member of the Accountants ' Business Network ( ABN ) which exists to circulate details of companies for sale and companies wishing to buy among the major accountancy firms . |
| 27 | ‘ This year we had a not very encouraging spring , a busy-ish summer and a hideously bad autumn , ’ he says , as people rushed to buy before the government reimposed stamp duty at the end of August . |
| 28 | Last summer we initiated the loan exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge of the finest private German collection of Romantic and Nazarene Drawings which we advised and helped build up over the years , having bought for the collection on commission here at the London auctions major drawings like Koch 's ‘ The Schmadribachfall ’ , and Overbeck 's important preparatory study for his fresco at the Villa Massimo in Rome . |
| 29 | Will he confirm that tenants who decide to buy under the provisions of the rents-to-mortgages scheme will pay little more than they do in rent ? |
| 30 | Both these positions entail a great deal of risk ; going long produces the possibility of capital losses on the shares held , going short produces the possibility that the jobber may have to buy in the shares at a future date at expensive prices . |