Example sentences of "[vb base] be sold to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fifty million copies of The Shoe People by James Driscoll have been sold to the Soviet Union as part of a three-year , £16m deal which includes televison rights . |
| 2 | In addition to the United Kingdom , they have been sold to Canada ( the largest market ) , the U.S.A. , Switzerland , Austria , Italy , Norway , Sweden , Finland , Denmark , Holland , Luxembourg , Germany , France , New Zealand , South Africa , Japan , Russia , China , Ireland , Belgium , Australia , and a few have gone to the Ivory Coast , surely amongst the most unlikely of places . |
| 3 | Almost 1,300 manufacturing enterprises have been sold to date , along with most department stores and restaurants and half of the hotels and chemist 's shops . |
| 4 | Dozens of the rhesus macaque monkeys have been sold to a firm which breeds animals for medical research . |
| 5 | But the Mirror has documentary proof that since the mid-1980s , a total of 83 rhesus monkeys have been sold to Shamrock from Longleat and 32 from Woburn . |
| 6 | As a result of this three of the vehicles have been sold to a group of enthusiasts at Downpatrick . |
| 7 | Employees at Moscow 's Schchusev Architectural History Museum have scotched rumours that twenty pages from the collection have been sold to Germany . |
| 8 | Since 1979 nearly a million local authority homes have been sold to tenants , out of an initial stock of 7 million homes ( Social Trends 15 , Chapter 8 , p. 123 ) . |
| 9 | Video rights in the UK have been sold to Pickwick . |
| 10 | The Miss Marple Mysteries , featuring Agatha Christie 's elderly sleuth have been sold to 60 countries as diverse as Germany , Zambia , Turkey and Nepal , and is ranked number two in the top 50 bestselling programmes of the last ten years . |
| 11 | Grumman TBM-3E Avenger N6827C and Tora Tora film Zeke /Harvard IV N15798 have been sold to Tim Wallis/Alpine Fighter Collection in New Zealand , and are making the long journey ‘ down under ’ by sea . |
| 12 | ‘ Some have been sold to private developers who are spending a lot of money on them , ’ he says . |
| 13 | Ten of the British-built vehicles have been sold to the United Nations in a recession-busting deal worth over half a million pounds . |