Example sentences of "sell off [adj] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The second thing we did was to sell off some of the rare books in order to provide capital which we could apply to the capital cost of the computer system . |
| 2 | After the usual cost-trimming exercises have been accomplished the only thing left to do is to sell off some of the most profitable parts to raise cash . |
| 3 | Lewis had n't made up his mind whether to sell Wyvis Hall after he had smartened it up a bit and with the proceeds buy a bigger and better London house and a country cottage or to keep the Hall and sell off some of the land for agriculture . |
| 4 | They are being sold off due to the end of the Cold War and will supply remote country areas where the food supply is particularly dire . |
| 5 | It was bad enough having to admit that the APT train project was a dead duck , but BR shot itself in the foot and provided the cynical national media with a field day by selling off some of the vehicles to a Sheffield scrapyard . |
| 6 | The £25 million cost will be met by raising prices and selling off some of the little-used hostels . |
| 7 | These include moving all the pictures to the National Gallery ; storing the pictures in situ in a permanently closed Gallery ; selling off some of the pictures ( one such sale in 1971 caused public outcry ) ; and launching another major public appeal as in 1984–85 and 1988 ( unlikely to succeed again ) . |
| 8 | From 1986 onwards , the Thatcher government raised 4–6 billion a year by selling off some of the major public corporations — British Gas , British |
| 9 | My guess is he 's been selling off some of the better vintages over the past few years . ’ |
| 10 | When the going gets tougher the management can simply sell off some of the property of its partly-owned Oldham Estate subsidiary . |