Example sentences of "[am/are] bought and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Local companies are bought and sold , and the involvement and interest that the game generates , as I discovered , is quite intense . |
| 2 | There is a management charge of 5% represented by the spread between the offer and the bid price , the price at which the units are bought and sold . |
| 3 | It is the day when gossip is exchanged , slander is perpetuated , goods are bought and sold , refrigerators , deep freezes and wine cellars are replenished , bubblegum stuck to the more inviting parts of old ladies ' dresses , and money transferred from the coffers of the DHSS to the tills of the Red Lion in joyous cacophony . |
| 4 | These connections open out — inevitably , it seems — into the most terrible bond , in the fourth stanza : that between the ‘ holy ’ , respectable institution of marriage and the harsh , exploitative world of prostitution , where bodies are bought and sold . |
| 5 | But , additionally , pornographic magazines are bought and sold . |
| 6 | Markets-where money is lent and borrowed , and paper assets are bought and sold . |
| 7 | As Cournot says , ‘ Economists understand by the term Market , not any particular market place in which things are bought and sold , but the whole of any region in which buyers and sellers are in such free intercourse with one another that the prices of the same goods tend to equality easily and quickly . ’ |
| 8 | Erm , since the wider range investments on the whole tend to increase in value more rapidly than the narrower range investments , then as the investments in the normal course of management are bought and sold , the proportion which you have invested in the wider range tends to increase faster than the proportion that you have invested in the narrower range . |
| 9 | A woman spends many years charring in Cremona ; she saves all her money to buy an apartment for her son when he gets married ; her no-good husband , the boy 's father , reappears after years and demands assistance ; she refuses ; when the son is engaged , she relents and negotiates subsidies to her ex-husband , for a suit , a car , a wedding-present ; she organizes a big reception to which she invites all her former employers ; nobody comes except a tennis-star ; there is no sign of the husband ; her lawyer tells her that the girl her son is marrying is her husband 's mistress and that he had already taken over the apartment ; she reflects a moment and decides to carry on with the reception , everything is all right , ‘ if no one notices anything , it is as though nothing has happened ’ ; passers-by are invited to join the wedding-party , which they happily do because the tennis-star is present ; the husband turns up in his new car ; no one takes any notice of him because no one knows who he is , except for the dealer he sometimes does jobs for , who tells him all new cars lose half their value as soon as they are bought and end up on the scrapheap anyway . |
| 10 | The very fact they are bought and read daily by millions of people gives mass circulation newspapers an undeniable political role . |
| 11 | All too often , alarms are bought and installed in haste . |
| 12 | ‘ Other titles are bought and ordered in the normal way , but the 2,500 titles represent 80% of Penguin 's sales . ’ |
| 13 | If , for example , a firm with its headquarters in London is running manufacturing plants in the UK , Third World countries and elsewhere , if it is using parts and even designs originating abroad , if its shares are owned by people and institutions of all nationalities and are bought and sold on the New York Stock Exchange as much as in London , why should its output and its profits be counted as part of the United Kingdom economy ? |
| 14 | Mills and Boon are bought and sold on the basis of a brand-name , not an individual author . |
| 15 | Your regular monthly contribution or lump sum payment purchases units in a large pooled fund from which equities [ stocks and shares ] are bought and sold on your behalf . |