Example sentences of "sold off [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The latest TOPS report and accounts list the participating employers as all those who are to be sold off under the Bill . |
| 2 | It 's about the only thing that has n't been sold off to the Japanese — yet . ’ |
| 3 | I remind the Minister that , when the National Bus Company subsidiaries were sold off to the private sector , the first thing that the private company did in many instances was to get rid of the management because of its dissatisfaction with it . |
| 4 | Many ofthe 2.5 million rivets have been renewed , and parts of the ironwork have been replaced in recent years-authenticated chunks of the original were sold off to the public as highly-priced souvenirs . |
| 5 | They could then be sold off to the tune of a hundred million pounds to pay off debts . |
| 6 | The Kitching works were sold off to the S&DR and in 1860 Alfred handed over the Lister works to his cousin , Charles Ianson . |
| 7 | I was his assistant and when he wanted flowers he would send me to the Old Covent Garden at 4.30am to buy hundreds of pots of chrysanthemums which would then be sold off at the end of the day , thus serving a dual purpose as decoration and a means of recouping some of our costs . |
| 8 | In more recent times the village was part of Lord Burlington 's estate at Londesborough , and was eventually sold off at the beginning of this century . |
| 9 | Although the family seat was sold off in the fifties , the thirteenth Earl finds himself in a very similar sort of house , and the comparison is instructive . |
| 10 | As between the two heavyweights , Reed and Pearson , Reed has been added to at the start of the period ( financed from the sale of Pearson shares ) ; the additional Reed shares were sold off in the autumn of 1991 , thereby realising a tidy profit for the Portfolio . |
| 11 | Mr Salmon told me that he 'd heard the best barrows were being sold off in the Old Kent Road , on account of the fact that so many young lads were heeding Kitchener 's cry and joining up to fight for King and country . |
| 12 | They were given no votes or erm opportunities and of course the same thing will happen if and when the Parcelforce is sold off from the Post Office er there 's twenty thousand people there . |
| 13 | This lengthy and expensive process is particularly unsuitable when the trustee suspects the assets may be sold off by the bankrupt or grabbed by local creditors . |
| 14 | Thus , if a subsidiary company is sold off by the group with surrendered ACT , it ceases to be available for offset . |
| 15 | These were sold off by the French . |
| 16 | The Aldergrove operation — with a turnover last year of £21m — is to be sold off by the end of next year in a major privatisation project . |
| 17 | A Forestry Commission spokesman denied charges of a secret arrangement , but acknowledged that the Ordnance Survey had " clearly felt that it would be misleading to their customers to publish maps indicating Commission land when they are aware that one tenth of this land has to be sold off by the end of the century " . |