Example sentences of "[was/were] sold to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Big Healey made its reputation as a rally car — here shown on 1963 Alpine rally — but most cars were sold to the US |
| 2 | Copies were sold to the public as souvenirs of the exhibition , and could be played on many contemporary record-players ( 51 ) . |
| 3 | Derek Cooper finds out how the wrinklies were sold to the younger generation |
| 4 | In June 1927 , together with the four rebuilt older cars , eight of these , Nos. 43 , 44 , 62 , 63 , 64 , 66 , 67 and 69 were sold to the South Metropolitan Company at £700 the lot with spare parts . |
| 5 | It had sprung from his activities in the housing movement , but was run on straight commercial lines , providing an ‘ alternative ’ removals service and producing a nice sideline in salvaged Victorian fireplaces which were sold to the new rich . |
| 6 | The shares were sold to the company 's two largest shareholders Oren Benton and the National Electrical Benefit Fund . |
| 7 | The following year the Beaverbrook papers were sold to the Trafalgar House conglomerate . |
| 8 | Using their presence and ‘ high net worth ’ , a further £4m of 8% convertible preference shares were sold to the institutions . |
| 9 | There are no there were no big property owners , no big coal , I mean the colliery company only owned sixty houses , I think , which were sold to the tenants , er when the lease ran out . |
| 10 | The rights to operate the coastal service were sold to the Dundee , Perth and London Shipping Co. and cargo movements continued by sea until the early 70's when all regular sailings were suspended . |
| 11 | Bryanston was sold to the TV company Associated Rediffusion in 1965 and the whole rickety infrastructure of an independent British film industry was simply swept under by waves or American finance , with AFM ceasing production in 1964 after Bryan Forbes ' ponderous Seance on a Wet Afternoon . |
| 12 | Over the two hundred years that they owned the house their fortunes dwindled until the house was sold to the Hutchings family in 1736 . |
| 13 | The fruit machines were proving fruitful and the Club improved the changing rooms , bought new dining room furniture and tarmacadamed the car park , although a small part of it was sold to the S.E.B. for £75 for use as a sub-station . |
| 14 | His stay was brief , for in 1950 it was sold to the West Midlands Farmers Association who remained until 1974 . |
| 15 | There followed a period of disuse and partial use until the mill , which was then owned by Courtaulds , was sold to the local company of Renishaws . |
| 16 | In the late 17th century the estate was sold to the Montgomerie family and the Cuninghames moved to their seat at Caprington Castle . |
| 17 | The Commissioners of Woods and Forests invited tenders for the one acre site , and it was sold to the Corporation of the City of London for around £29,000 . |
| 18 | In 1925 the Reid brothers , William 's sons , sold the hotel to a British company , and in 1937 it was sold to the Blandy family who closed it during the Second World War and then modernized it before it re-Opened . |
| 19 | A site in Aurelia Road , near West Croydon Cemetery , was sold to the Company by West Croydon Estate Co. for a depôt on 14 December . |
| 20 | The Export Credits Guarantee Department 's short-term insurance business was sold to the Dutch company NCM at the end of 1991 . |
| 21 | In the case of Ghana , the Daily Graphic was sold to the Nkrumah Government in 1965 . |
| 22 | Until 1623 the picture hung in the Kunstkammer of Prague Castle , when it was sold to the art dealer Daniel de Bries for the exceptionally high price of 400 talers . |
| 23 | In 1948/1949 TE566 was sold to the Israelis to become 20–32 ( or ‘ 32 ’ of 101 Squadron ) . |
| 24 | But almost immediately , Amalgamated was sold to the Mirror Group , which now had holdings in two companies — to which the ITA objected . |
| 25 | Huntington remained with the Esmondes until 1760 , when it was sold to the Bishop of Limerick ; but it came back into the family when it was bought in 1780 by Alexander Durdin , a Protestant , whose son Richard married Frances Esmonde . |
| 26 | In the 1370s lay custodians took control of houses and property as the original priors died off , or , indeed , as property was sold to the laity . |
| 27 | The land was sold to the second to fourth defendants on 21 July 1988 , and by order dated 16 December 1988 they were added as defendants and the action stayed against the first defendants . |
| 28 | The Agreement made in 1930 between the London County Council and Mr. Nathan was part of a sale and leaseback arrangement whereby a part of Mr. Nathan 's land ( ‘ the strip ’ ) was sold to the L.C.C . |
| 29 | The property in Halling then came into the family of Melford , later it was sold to the family of Raynwell , who held it until the reign of Henry VII , when it passed through several hands among them , Whornes and Levesons , Barber , Golding , Wood and then to W. Baker . |
| 30 | In June the entire share capital of the two Scottish integrated electricity companies was sold to the public , thus completing the privatization of the non-nuclear electricity supply industry . |