Example sentences of "to a [noun] [noun] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ANNE 'S CATHEDRAL , BELFAST PRIOR TO A MEMORIAL SERVICE FOR VISCOUNT BROOKBOROUGH , FORMER PRIME MINISTER OF NORTHERN IRELAND . |
| 2 | Even if you go to a 424Mb disk for $4,800 — £4,060 — you still have plop down more bucks for more RAM . |
| 3 | A fire painting by Yves Klein ( lot 65 , est. £50,000–70,000 ) attracted the session 's highest price when it sold to a telephone bidder for £75,000 . |
| 4 | Two recent abstract compositions by Gerhard Richter attracted keen competition , ‘ Untitled 649–1 ’ ( lot 75 , est. £40,000–60,000 ) being purchased by a Californian collector for £72,000 ( 1108,000 ) and ‘ Untitled 666–4 ’ ( lot 77 , est. £30,000–40,000 ) selling to a telephone bidder for £58,000 ( $87,000 ) . |
| 5 | Keenest interest was directed towards a string abstract canvas by Gerhard Richter ( lot 3 , est. $200,000–250,000 ) , which was purchased by art advisor , Jeffrey Deitch , for $220,000 ( £146,667 ) , and Chuck Close 's portrait of Cindy Sherman ( lot 6 , est. $200,000–250,000 ) which sold to a telephone bidder for $210,000 ( £140,000 ) . |
| 6 | The afternoon 's surprise was the determined competition for Lucian Freud 's small and rather unattractive nude portrait ( lot 55 , est. £50,000–70,000 ) which sold to a telephone bidder for £115,000 ( $172,500 ) . |
| 7 | An important facture painting , ‘ Graue Hunde , drei Streifen ’ by Georg Baselitz ( lot 31 , est. $350–450,000 ) , which London dealer Michael Hue-Williams had acquired from Saatchi several years ago and was widely known in the trade , sold to a telephone bidder for $370,000 ( £205,600 ) . |
| 8 | Most notable among them were a Louis XVI ormolu-and-Wedgwood porcelain mounted clock thermometer and its companion barometer-thermometer attributed to Adam Weisweiler ( est. $150–200,000 ) which sold to a telephone bidder for $250,000 ( £138,900 ) and an amusing pair of painted jeux de loto ( essentially eighteenth-century bingo cards in their holders ) , which sold over the telephone for $60,000 ( £33,300 ) ( est. $20–30,000 ) . |
| 9 | The session 's highest price was paid for Andy Warhol 's ‘ Four Marilyns ’ ( lot 32 , est. £400,000–500,000 ) , which sold to a telephone bidder for £555,000 ( $832,500 ) . |
| 10 | An important figure composition , ‘ The Temptation of St Anthony ’ , ( lot 79 , est. £300,000–500,000 ) sold to a telephone bidder for £270,000 ( $413,100 ) and Lefevre bought ‘ Going to Bed ’ ( lot 80 , est. £180–260,000 ) , one of the nine small canvases comprising the ‘ Domestic Scenes ’ of 1935–36 , for £130,000 ( $198,900 ) . |
| 11 | In April last year a worker was told to take bottles to a handling bay for disposal . |
| 12 | The distinction is an important one : books on a shelf may be in poor condition , and may indeed deteriorate in their locations ( particularly when they are made up of self-destructive acidic paper ) , but their deterioration will be very much slower than if they are transported to a reading room for consultation by a reader . |
| 13 | In pristine condition , it sold to a phone dealer for $135,000 ( £84,400 ; est. $80–120,000 ) . |
| 14 | Typical was the hexagonal tile , painted by Picasso with a bull and inscribed to Cooper , estimated at $6–8,000 and sold to a phone bidder for $42,000 ( £23,300 ) , the lot of eight lithographed greeting cards by Braque , sold for $15,000 ( £8,300 ) ( est. $2,000–3,000 ) , a nine-item lot of small drawings and autographed and inscribed photographs by Picasso , Miró , Braque and Leger , sold for $8,000 ( £4,400 ) ( est. $500–700 ) and a lot of three delicate watercolours by Picasso 's mistress Dora Maar ( est. $600–800 ) bought by Paloma Picasso , the artist 's daughter by his subsequent mistress , Françoise Gilot , for $5,000 ( £2,800 ) . |
| 15 | This never took place , and it sold to a phone bidder for $42,000 ( £23,300 ) ( est. $20–25,000 ) . |
| 16 | Luckier fates awaited the Louis XIV Boulle marquetry console , sold to a telephone bidder under-estimate for $675,000 ( £375,000 ) ( est. $800–1.2 million ) , a small Louis XIV ormolu-mounted Boulle bureau plat around 1700–1710 , sold to Bernard Steinitz for $850,000 ( £472,200 ) ( est. $1–1.5 million ) , a simple Louis XV tulipwood marquetry table à écrire by Bernard van Risamburgh , sold to Partridge for $460,000 ( £255,500 ) ( est. $400–600,000 ) and the skeleton of a charming Louis XVI giltwood lit à la polonaise around 1780 ( est. $100–150,000 ) , a form not often seen at auction , which went to a phone bidder for $440,000 ( £244,400 ) . |
| 17 | The best lots were a Georgian inlaid marble chimneypiece , circa 1770 , sold to a London dealer for £21,500 ( $38,915 ) , and a mahogany state bed , George IV , designed by Willliam Porden , circa 1820 sold for £17,000 ( $30,770 ) to an American buyer on behalf of the Gerald Arthur Ralph Foundation for Historic Preservation and Education . |
| 18 | The morning 's highest price was achieved for John Fernley Senior 's picture of a hunt at Belvoir Castle ( lot 90 , est. £80,000–120,000 ) which sold to a London dealer for £119,000 . |
| 19 | Plus Points : Easy to use , maps can be converted to a PCX file for use in presentations . |
| 20 | Plus Points : Easy to use , maps can be converted to a PCX file for use in presentations . |
| 21 | That manoeuvre might lead to a diamond ruff for West at trick two , but even that is unlikely to prove fatal . |
| 22 | Last May it sold three of its four Ford dealerships to a management team for £6.7m and changed its name from Godfrey Davis ( Holdings ) . |
| 23 | We were going to a country pub for lunch . |
| 24 | A visit to a country house for instance will probably include reference to some of the social groups and classes of the period under study ( upstairs/downstairs , the estate workers , the craft or factory workers who produced many of the goods seen in the house ) ; the role of the gentry as leaders and rulers of their society can be covered ; there will be ample scope for looking at the economic and technological aspects of life in the period , especially if the house is related to its setting and the surrounding estate and countryside that supported it ; finally there will be objects or rooms in the house which relate to cultural or religious life in the period . |
| 25 | The one-piece oscar went to a Leiston man for £105 and the broken one was sold for an amazing £85 . |
| 26 | His record includes robbery and burglary and he once gave £1,000 to a drug dealer for heroin . |
| 27 | In addition , you will find step-by-step directions on how to connect the camcorder to a colour television for playback , and how to operate special functions such as fades and inserts . |
| 28 | It is only 12 months old and I now wish to purchase a modulator to convert it to a colour monitor for use with a domestic TV set . |
| 29 | You consistently recommend fitting 7–50 x 16 Michelin XCL tyres to a Land Rover for road use . |
| 30 | To be able to add this latest accreditation to what may already be a substantial collection of brandings and certifications , a vendor has to successfully complete a set of tests and checks , buy a distribution source licence for the specific OSF technology , and agree to a royalty structure for products shipped under the certification seal . |