Example sentences of "to buy [noun pl] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Continued financial pressure on the NHS has led many authorities to reduce their long stay provision or to buy places within the private sector , which are often cheaper than their own beds . |
| 5 | We have no money to buy dressings for the wounded . |
| 6 | By a curious coincidence , this month you have two chances to buy depictions of the Grand-ducal coronet of Tuscany destroyed during the Napoleonic invasions . |
| 7 | Conversely , if the Bank of England wishes to expand the money supply , it will instruct its broker to buy securities on the open market and will pay for them with cheques drawn on itself . |
| 8 | People gathered in groups outside the burger place ; others went to buy cigarettes from the Indian shop on the corner and then stood at the bus stop . |
| 9 | It was their job to buy horses for the New Model Army and scour the country for food and provisions . |
| 10 | I have served a place for him at the head of the queue to buy shares in the privatised NIE . |