Example sentences of "buy at a " in BNC.
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| 1 | A trader seeking to buy dollars ( for example ) in the forward market will buy at a forward rate which is less advantageous to him ( that is , if the exchange rate is defined as the sterling price of a dollar , f t may be greater than ) . |
| 2 | That 's right , that 's right , yes , how we consume these products , yes , I mean , you 're right , so a potato is a potato is a potato , but if it 's pre-packed , graded and washed , that is sort of intrinsically different from er , er , sort of , mouldy , scruffy old potatoes that you could buy at a greengrocer . |
| 3 | In exchange , homesteaders will pay a lower rent or be able to buy at a reduced price . |
| 4 | held , a condition of making the purchase , like a ticket entitling a member to buy at a co-operative store . |
| 5 | But if an entrepreneur perceives the possibility of gaining profit by offering to buy at a price attractive to sellers and by offering to sell at a price attractive to buyers , the opportunities he thus offers to the market can in principle be made available by anyone . |
| 6 | Each discovery is bought at a cost , he wrote . |
| 7 | The achievement has been bought at a price . |
| 8 | The Paris show demonstrated that at a much lower level delightful drawings by well known names can still be bought at a fraction of the price of a painting by the same artist . |
| 9 | Every gallon of diesel bought at a U.K. service station ensures that another £1.03 in duty flows into the Treasury 's coffers . |
| 10 | The largest purchase last year was electrical engineer Hawker Siddeley , bought at a cost of £1½ billion . |
| 11 | Harrods Library , which had an extensive clientele , used to publish long lists of ex-library books which could be bought at a third of the price when new , or less if rebound for library use . |
| 12 | There is equally no doubt that such benefits are bought at a price . |
| 13 | However , this condensation has been bought at a price : developments at Imperial College are often not placed very fully within the context of the British educational scene . |
| 14 | The latest test kit complaint concerned a kit bought at a garden centre outlet . |
| 15 | In the end the partner bought at a knock-down price , without naming himself as the buyer until the offer had been accepted . |
| 16 | A MANIAC slashed a teenage girl 's throat with a knife he had just bought at a packed car boot sale . |
| 17 | The stretch lace was bought at a market stall where it was available in black , white and skintone — I think it is used in the lingerie industry for bras ! |
| 18 | But if the tentative claims for attention of deep , albeit hazy , personal beliefs are consistently ignored , clarity has been bought at a high price : damage to integrity and the loss of real satisfaction . |
| 19 | Six canvas stretchers were to be bought at a cost not exceeding £5 . |
| 20 | Moreover , director Paul Haines said that one of the London-based group 's tactics for boosting profits was to look for bargains among the competition — the stake in Total was bought at a very low price , he says — then buy a small stake , and cash it in . |
| 21 | This was because it was often bought at a high . |
| 22 | Theory is no substitute for practical experience and this experience is often only bought at a high price . |
| 23 | This means that there are a number of intermediaries between original producer and eventual buyer , as in the case of the box of foreign-made chocolates bought at a local retailer by a housewife . |
| 24 | Packed with meat ( 92% min ) , they are gutsy and flavourful and can be bought at a few outlets in London and Oxfordshire , or direct ( no mail order ) from Bangers Galore , |
| 25 | The latter clause , however , had had the approval of negotiating bodies representing both potato merchants and farmers ; no blame for the infection of the seed potatoes was attributable to either side ; and , further , the buyers , if they had so wished , could have bought at a small extra cost , seed potatoes certified by inspectors of the Ministry of Agriculture . |
| 26 | They are bought at a steeply increasing price . |
| 27 | Travelling all day yesterday , she had subsisted solely on British Rail sandwiches and her supper had consisted only of the cereal and milk she 'd bought at a small general store in the nearest hamlet . |
| 28 | On Dec. 31 , 91 people died in Bombay after drinking poisoned liquor bought at a government-licensed liquor store . |
| 29 | Converted whisky barrels like these can be bought at a reasonable price in most parts of the country . |
| 30 | Nonetheless , the farmers could have bought at a slightly higher price certified seed , which , being certified , was less likely to be suffering from the virus which affected the seed actually bought . |