Example sentences of "buy [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The well-to-do have moved from the towns to live or buy houses in the countryside , contributing another pressure on the young who can least afford to pay the high prices thus created . |
| 2 | Existing users can have their products upgraded for a cost expected to be some £500 per site ; new users can buy products from the wide-ranging series at between £900 and £50,000 . |
| 3 | ‘ There is a phone in number for viewers to air their opinions and he called in and said he was furious about what had happened to this poor woman and wanted to give her the money so she could buy presents for the boys . |
| 4 | Must buy calendars for the kids ' work . |
| 5 | The bank with surplus cash could buy CDs on the money market that had been issued by another bank . |
| 6 | Some of this support was on a substantial scale : a large cheque given to enable the parents to ‘ buy things for the baby ’ ; a capital sum to enable a young architect to buy into a new firm ; paying the wages of a home help to assist a family with several young children ( pp. 92–4 ) . |
| 7 | The Amphimaid will , as the name suggests , fit the Amphibious range of pumps , while you can also buy pre-filters for the upright type of submersible such as the Dab Nova . |
| 8 | The pounds you pay will buy ECUs at the current exchange rate , which can fluctuate . |
| 9 | Non-members could buy tickets on the door and the ticket money would be used to offset the cost of future concerts . |
| 10 | You do n't have to queue up and buy tickets at the , the little box thing . |
| 11 | Because although the hotpots cost a pound er most people er will will buy drinks at the bar and er we 'll make fifty P out of them in the evening at the bar so you know we 'll make five pounds from anybody we sell tickets to from now on . |
| 12 | The following points should be noted about partial offers : ( 1 ) The offeror and its concert parties must not buy shares in the target during the partial offer period , neither must they , or any new concert parties , purchase shares for a period of 12 months following a successful partial offer without the Panel 's consent ( Rule 36.3 ) ( although consent will normally be given where the partial offer has resulted in a holding carrying less than 30 per cent of the voting rights ( note 2 ) ) . |
| 13 | Just as a hallway has no meaning on its own — after all , you can not buy hallways without the rest of the building ( ‘ nice hallway to sell , hardly ever used ’ ) — so prayer has no meaning on its own . |
| 14 | She was a clever woman with obscure sources of energy who would suddenly start to garden by torchlight late at night , or walk wilfully all the way to Soho to buy vegetables at the times when the pin in her hipbone was especially painful . |
| 15 | Launching a sugar plantation took a great deal of capital and the planters were always short of money ; many of them had bought estates at the high land prices of the boom , and most of them felt they owed it to themselves to live in a gentlemanly way that ignored debts . |
| 16 | erm They do n't like them to buy copies of the school reading scheme and keep it at home and go through it book by book , that they feel is encroaching on their professionalism . |
| 17 | It buys minicomputers from the American firm Data General , adds financial software , and then sells the package to accountants . |
| 18 | Miloš used these funds to buy estates from the Turks , and then he transferred them either into his own hands or into those of his Serbian friends . |
| 19 | These of course were paid for by Theo , Vincent regularly bought copies of the Graphic and London News , tearing out sheets to add to his stock . |
| 20 | Edinburgh libraries have bought copies of the new editions of Biggles . |
| 21 | EDINBURGH libraries have bought copies of the new editions of Biggles . |
| 22 | She met him emerging from their tall block of apartments as she was returning from work on the Friday evening , having stopped to buy groceries on the way home , her mind flying ahead to Luke 's arrival and all that she planned to say to him now that she had made up her mind to end their affair . |
| 23 | It is recognised that a lot of people who might once have bought homes in the West Country have been flocking to France in recent years to cash in on the predicted property boom . |
| 24 | Computers would compete with manual labourers , but Western countries had been losing their jobs for years already ( as anyone knows who buys plimsolls in the supermarket and reads the label . ) |
| 25 | The price-conscious monarch could have bought presents for the whole family — and still had change from £50 . |
| 26 | Romania charity organiser Pat Moody buys goodies from the cake stall . |
| 27 | The illusion of success was maintained only because the group 's high share price enabled it to buy companies on the cheap and so keep pushing up total profits and earnings per share . |
| 28 | But even in those circumstances the new rules hopefully should make sure that it is more difficult for managements to buy companies on the cheap from under the noses of their shareholders . |
| 29 | Iran itself once bought weapons from the hated Israelis . |
| 30 | The agency believes that investors will refuse to buy plants in the polluted region if they will also have to pay for cleaning up the environment . |