Example sentences of "been bought [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | And that support had been bought at the cost of considerably increasing the budget . |
| 4 | Today 's profit has been bought at the cost of tens of thousands of pay-packets . |
| 5 | 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 ’ . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Mr Dowson , who is due to be married in June , said equipment worth more than £1,000 had already been bought for the programme . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 14 | It must have been bought by the bolt , for it kept showing up all year in pantaloons and children 's dresses , or on servants . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | They are thought to have been bought in the area of Coppull , near Chorley , where the couple met their deaths after being lured from their flat in Jericho Farm Walk , Aigburth , Liverpool , on April 27 . |
| 17 | The cruets were said to have been bought in the cause of saving the work of cleaning silver ones , but she still made the au-pair girls polish a hoard of Georgian silverware in the cellar every week . |