Example sentences of "[adv] [been] sold for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Latterly , until its closure in 1963 , it was used by the permanent-way department , and has since been sold for industrial purposes . |
| 2 | Naturally , VI would rather sell X-Designer than enhance rival products , but in the US where X-Designer has only been sold for the past year , rival products have a much stronger hold and the separation of the Graph Widgets enables a toehold into these accounts for the VI sales force . |
| 3 | The police are now trying to recover two more stolen cars which had already been sold for up to thirty thousand pounds . |
| 4 | Hundreds of tickets have already been sold for the July 25 gig and organisers predict all 35,000 tickets will be gone by next weekend . |
| 5 | More than 4,000 tickets have so far been sold for next month 's event which will have as it 's feature bout the fight between Nigel Benn and Italian Mauro Galvano . |
| 6 | NGC 's physical security arm has now been sold for $20m . |
| 7 | Mr Kerry 's home has now been sold for over twenty thousand pounds less than he paid … |
| 8 | Rights have even been sold for a 3,000 copy Faroese edition of the Children 's Encyclopaedia — one copy per household in the Faroe Islands . |
| 9 | We told how monkeys from the two parks have been sent to Shamrock Farms , near Brighton , for breeding — and have then been sold for medical research or slaughtered . |
| 10 | If the Government had given away Hampshire Bus and the assets had then been sold for £2 , 1 million , the profit would have been the same to the buyer , and the loss to the public purse in real terms would have been no less . |
| 11 | Having noticed an item in the US News section of a recent NME claiming that an original stereo copy of BOB DYLAN 's ‘ Freewheelin' ’ album had recently been sold for $US 12,000 , I hastened to check my dad 's original copy . |