Example sentences of "[been] bought [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | And that support had been bought at the cost of considerably increasing the budget . |
| 5 | Today 's profit has been bought at the cost of tens of thousands of pay-packets . |
| 6 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | They 've been bought for the fact that all over the country there 's all these holes in the wall and people are putting up shelves , building furniture or whatever . |
| 8 | Mr Dowson , who is due to be married in June , said equipment worth more than £1,000 had already been bought for the programme . |
| 9 | Instead there has been something of a supermarket approach : according to the interests of the teacher a number of packages have been bought off the shelves and put in the course trolley . |
| 10 | In the early days of North Sea exploration , it was not unknown for project teams to phone Houston , Texas , for a box of bolts which could have been bought off the shelf at an ironmongers in Aberdeen . |
| 11 | The Class A boat had belonged to Gianni Varassi 's aborted Italian Challenge 93 syndicate , and has been bought under the colours of Publiespana , a Spanish adertising agency owned by the Italian media mogul , Silvio Berlusconi . |
| 12 | It is , of course , true that some wrappers might come from the chocolate which had already been bought or from chocolate which would have been bought without the offer , but that does not seem to me to alter the case . |
| 13 | They used bogus invoices to fool Lloyd 's into thinking the gems had been bought from the Indian company , said James Curtis , prosecuting . |
| 14 | The stables of the castle had been bought from the Sanvitale family a few years before by a family from Milan ( but of Fontanellato origin ) called the Gandini . |
| 15 | The remains of the Body & Face Place chain have been bought by the people who operate another franchise business , Snappy Snaps , but few of the original Body & Face Place franchisees have chosen to transfer to the new owner . |
| 16 | It must have been bought by the bolt , for it kept showing up all year in pantaloons and children 's dresses , or on servants . |
| 17 | After a brief spell as a specialist oriental bookshop following its purchase by Christer von der Burg , it has now been bought by the book-sellers and publishers A. Zwemmer Ltd . |
| 18 | The so-called Trausnitz Venus , which was offered for sale at Christie 's on 10 December but failed to raise a single bid , has now been bought by the National Gallery in Washington . |
| 19 | Edinburgh also obtained Pietro da Cortona 's finished and squared study for ‘ St Ivo intervening on behalf of the poor ’ for the altarpiece of the Roman church of S. Ivo della Sapienza ( £72,637 , est. £15–20,000 ; NACF , NHMF support ) ; this drawing had been bought by the Metropolitan Museum , New York as a leaving memorial for the drawings expert Jacob Bean , but was export-stopped . |
| 20 | So that was most popular , very busy person and er , since then more and more shops er have been bought by the Asians and now I think er we cater for , for every need and there are some pubs as well which have been bought by the Asian and The last straw I think is the Conservative club and bought by Mr and two of his er partners . |
| 21 | So that was most popular , very busy person and er , since then more and more shops er have been bought by the Asians and now I think er we cater for , for every need and there are some pubs as well which have been bought by the Asian and The last straw I think is the Conservative club and bought by Mr and two of his er partners . |
| 22 | In 1927 he was invited to edit an important collection of Boswell 's papers which had been bought by the American Colonel R. H. Isham . |
| 23 | Recent activities , since the opening of the museum , have centred on preparing the GWR coach at Clunbury , which has now been bought by the Society , for removal . |
| 24 | Those arrested in May also included three members of the DC 's national executive ; Sergio Radaelli , the PSI nominee to Cariplo , Milan 's biggest savings bank ; Massimo Ferlini , a PDS member who had previously been public works commissioner for Milan ; and prominent industrialists such as Roberto Schellino , a former technical director of Cogefar-Impresit ( Italy 's leading construction company , which had recently been bought by the motor company Fiat ) and Mario San Vittore Lodigiani , vice-president of the Lodigiani construction company . |
| 25 | It 's been bought by the man who 's run it for the RSPCA for the last eight years . |
| 26 | The Observer newspaper has been bought by the Guardian . |
| 27 | Their abandoned Victorian mansion has been bought by the local council to save it from ruin . |
| 28 | Three thousand tonnes of equipment from the steel works , which closed two years ago with the loss of 1,200 jobs , has been bought by the Chinese and is to be shipped out of Birkenhead docks to Shanghai . |
| 29 | Three thousand tonnes of equipment from the steel works , which closed two years ago with the loss of 1,200 jobs , have been bought by the Chinese and is to be shipped out of Birkenhead docks to Shanghai . |
| 30 | Three thousand tonnes of equipment from the steelworks , which closed with the loss of 1,200 jobs , has been bought by the Chinese and is to be shipped out of Birkenhead docks to Shanghai . |