Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] sold " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over all the years , including these nineteen , some bonds were given to the club but the majority were bequeathed to individuals , either to be kept as an investment out of family sentiment , or possibly sold quietly to Club members , selected as previously described . |
| 2 | The 159 galleries in Holland which had been selected to sell under the scheme , occasionally got rid of old stock by artists long dead , or even sold objects which did not fall under the category of works for which the system had been intended . |
| 3 | Camera-gun recovered from a Dornier Do 17 and successfully sold at Christie 's August sale . |
| 4 | One of the earliest patent applications for a stunt kite was that filed in December 1928 for H.De Haven in the USA and eventually sold as the ‘ Air-o-bian ’ fighting kite , with claims for ‘ loops dives and climbs . |
| 5 | In the late sixteenth century , the altarpiece was replaced by a Cigoli , and eventually sold . |
| 6 | In the 1980s , Stevens found fame and the album was re-released and eventually sold more than 100,000 copies . |
| 7 | French move : A large French multi-national , Saur , is planning to expand its water interests in the UK by investing in Scottish water if it is franchised and not sold off . |
| 8 | However , a loss is still sustained , even if the bill is held to maturity and not sold . |
| 9 | She might , as in 1986–7 , have to import 8 million tonnes of cereals , amounting to about 40 per cent of urban consumption , or , as in 1988/9 have a surplus of 3 million tonnes which could not be transported , and thus sold , to deficit countries . |
| 10 | Until his brother took over the firm and promptly sold it to INCUBUS Oy . |
| 11 | In November 1981 , Fidelity Electronics produced , and rapidly sold out , a limited run of a machine that was as good as the best 10 per cent . |
| 12 | Already there are instances where prawns unfit for human consumption have been exported , irradiated abroad , re-imported and later sold in catering packs in restaurants . |
| 13 | Smaller , but equally welcome amounts of money have changed hands for pieces of driftwood and other finds worked on by artists and later sold to tourists . |
| 14 | Within the Eastern District , Berkhamsted branch ( Hertfordshire ) hung a banner proclaiming ‘ 1903-WEA-1953 ’ in the High Street for a week , using the hoardings protecting the new site of Woolworths , and also sold literature and distributed publicity from a stall in the marketplace ; Sprowston branch ( Norfolk ) arranged an exhibition of Victoriana in the village school , with local firms and libraries as well as members themselves lending material ; Peterborough branch held a garden party at the Bishop 's House , featuring addresses by Lady Simon , one of the WEA 's vice-presidents , and by Dr. Charles Morris , chairman of the National Foundation for Adult Education . |
| 15 | H. Till and Son , who occupied the opposite Brown Street Corner , were well known saddlers and also sold extremely high-class leather goods . |
| 16 | This situation is shown in Fig. 17.3 , where investors anticipated interest rate increases ( and hence sold gilts and drove down gilt prices ) prior to June 1988 , when bank base rates began to rise from 7.5% , until they peaked at 15% in October 1989 . |
| 17 | Moreover , in the 1930s offensive weapons were openly and legally sold . |
| 18 | This type is available in either brass or plastic , and often sold as ‘ quiet ’ ballvalves . |
| 19 | Today the company has moved on , trying to cohabit with such bedfellows as hundreds of small software firms , or investing in specialist ‘ business partners ’ IBM has learned to cooperate at least a little , and even sold off a few businesses — but the company continues to have an exceptionally coherent set of beliefs and behaviour patterns . |
| 20 | Some of the young calves are fattened on the farms but many are reared for a few months and then sold for fattening in central or eastern Britain . |
| 21 | Reports published in Beirut newspapers on Aug. 28 and quoting a senior source in the Shia Amal movement claimed that Arad was being held by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard in Iran , having been captured by Amal in Lebanon in 1986 after bailing out of his aircraft , and then sold by Amal to the Revolutionary Guard for $500,000 . |
| 22 | The shares are held for a year and then sold for $27 each . |
| 23 | In those days a new house was usually constructed out of wooden hut sections of which there was a plentiful supply as most of the troops stationed here in the war lived in wooden prefabricated buildings and when they left Orkney the buildings were dismantled and then sold . |
| 24 | Tap water which costs less than a penny a litre is being filtered , treated and then sold for more than fifty times that much . |
| 25 | Carritt bought it , correctly identified it as a lost early work , and magnanimously sold it to the National Gallery , London , far below the market price . |
| 26 | Sir Willie seemed as excited as she was , and firmly sold to boot . |
| 27 | This seems to have affected the fate of Frederic , Lord Leighton 's ‘ Sibyl ’ , bought-in at £145,000 against an estimate of £180–250,000 at Sotheby 's and previously sold at Christie 's in 1987 for £250,000 ; Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema 's ‘ A Sculptor 's Model ( Venus Esquilina ) ’ bought-in at £150,000 against an estimate of £200–300,000 at Christie 's , consigned by a Japanese corporation but familiar from the front window of a London gallery within very close proximity of Christie 's ; and John Roddam Spencer Stanhope 's lovely ‘ Our Lady of the Water Gate , ’ bought-in at £55,000 against an estimate of £80–120,000 at Christie 's , having previously been offered privately for around £180,000 . |
| 28 | Presumably a substantial profit could be made if the church bought the land and subsequently sold it . |
| 29 | Although many economists would argue that capital gains , as for example when ICI shares are purchased for 2 and subsequently sold for 3 , are as much income as the dividend component of the return on an asset , in practice the Inland Revenue assesses and taxes capital gains separately . |
| 30 | Their debut single ‘ Going To Nepal ’ crashed into the Irish charts on release last month , and actually sold out its initial pressing , much to the embarrassment of their record company . |