Example sentences of "[been] bought by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It must have been bought by the bolt , for it kept showing up all year in pantaloons and children 's dresses , or on servants . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It 's been bought by the man who 's run it for the RSPCA for the last eight years . |
| 12 | The Observer newspaper has been bought by the Guardian . |
| 13 | Their abandoned Victorian mansion has been bought by the local council to save it from ruin . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |