Example sentences of "[pron] can be bought " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to them the capitalist representation of labour , the idea that labour is a thing which can be bought and sold , came about as a result of certain economic and technical developments in medieval towns . |
| 2 | They see labour as something which can be bought and sold and , for them , that is all there is to it ; when they use that idea of labour they are unaware of and unconcerned with what has caused it . |
| 3 | ‘ The vast majority of cases found to be positive are due to household products which can be bought from the chemist and the player is then simply given a telling off . |
| 4 | More than one-third of self-poisoners use preparations which can be bought over the counter ( Proudfoot and Park 1978 ) . |
| 5 | It is widely found in cough mixtures ( eg Actifed ) and hay-fever medication , some of which can be bought without a prescription . |
| 6 | Which is understandable if you believe that there is a ‘ solution ’ which can be bought . |
| 7 | Mini-castors , which can be bought at all good hardware stores , should be fitted to every piece of furniture that will take them except chairs , which can be fitted with small metal domes so that they slide gently and slowly . |
| 8 | This is particularly necessary if you are using either the VHS-C or Video 8 formats ; unlike the ubiquitous standard VHS cassettes which can be bought just about anywhere , the availability of the mini-format cassettes tends to be patchy and you risk running out of tape at an awkward time . |
| 9 | Richard Burns , colour and tinting expert at Michaeljohn uses the Henara brand of powders which can be bought for use at home from chemists and department stores , costing £2.19 . |
| 10 | The extra facility of the Power Tool Table , which can be bought as an accessory later , means that you can have virtually a mobile workshop , almost anywhere you 're likely to need it , eventually . |
| 11 | Elderflowers — These can either be collected as flowers from the hedgerow in the summer ( a couple of leaves crushed and rubbed on the skin helps to keep mosquitoes away from humans ) or use half a teaspoon of dried flowers which can be bought as tea . |
| 12 | If you 're just looking for matching patterns to co-ordinate with room furnishings , however , there 's an increasingly wide range of totally co-ordinated wallpapers and borders available to go with curtain fabrics , bed linen , and even soft furnishing fabrics which can be bought by the metre . |
| 13 | But again I stress that light-grasp is all-important , and I am not at all happy about the very small telescopes which can be bought cheaply . |
| 14 | Two of my colleagues from the BBC did , it is true , succeed in smuggling an entire satellite telephone system ( complete with dish ) through Iraqi customs shortly before the war began , and there are plenty of guns in private hands which can be bought ; but the Mukhabarat are everywhere , and it would be impossible to find out where Saddam was going to be at any given time . |
| 15 | An onion set is a small onion which can be bought at garden centres or ordered from seed catalogues . |
| 16 | Ken Lo 's Kitchen stocks a range of canned and dried goods and spices , as well as some equipment , which can be bought by mail order . |
| 17 | The best maps are the 1:50,000 series which can be bought in NZ ; for guide books I recommend Bruce Ringer 's ‘ Cycletouring in New Zealand ’ and the Mobil Guides to the North and South Island ; I 'll have a copy of these with me . |
| 18 | There are databases which can be bought in from outside ( provided by government , consultancy and other organisations ) and are as important a source for information as that gained from internal databases . |
| 19 | The Edinburgh Travel Centre ( ETC ) can also provide certain concessions for students , e.g. ISIC cards , which can be bought ; production of these cards will allow a student discount wherever applicable . |
| 20 | But today information is property , which can be bought and sold , exploited and embargoed . |
| 21 | If necessary you can , of course , send the transfer or the documents by post to your client for signing , and if you do , you can enclose the printed directions , which can be bought from your law stationers as to how to do this , or describe this yourself . |
| 22 | I 've enquired into the question of coconuts , and they can be bought wholesale . ’ |
| 23 | They can be bought direct via a stockbroker , or via a managed fund set up for the purpose . |
| 24 | If you are organising the list yourself , first draw up a master list of items stating their make , colour , price and where they can be bought . |
| 25 | They can be bought at most large hardware stores and fixed by a handyman . |
| 26 | They can be bought from surgical and dental supply companies and some mail order firms sell them as well . |
| 27 | As a rough guide two strands wound together make something approximately like three-ply in thickness and three together are usually reckoned to be about a four-ply. these fine industrial yarns used to be in the ‘ odds and ends ’ bins , but the manufacturers have caught on to the fact that they are popular with machine knitters , so now they can be bought under a brand name . |
| 28 | In England they can be bought in Soho shops ; they make delicious soups and salads . |
| 29 | They can be bought either as small , round discs , which are sewn into the corners of curtain hems , or in strip form , to be inserted along the whole length of the hemline . |
| 30 | ( Certain gilts can be traded special ex dividend three weeks prior to the normal ex dividend date , which means that they can be bought or sold with or without the next coupon during this period . ) |