Example sentences of "be sold to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Often they 're sold to rich businessmen in the Middle East , where falconry is a popular sport . |
| 2 | So much yeast is produced during fermentation that large amounts are sold to companies such as Marmite to be turned into yeast extract . |
| 3 | ‘ The testing of all hens will continue to be compulsory if their eggs are sold to the public , however small the enterprise . |
| 4 | Ingredients obtained from the Third World , providing work and sustenance to underprivileged societies , go into products which are sold to the more fortunate , the profits of which go into her educational programme aimed at making people more aware of the critical issues of our times . |
| 5 | Building contracts are sold to insiders , rubbish is disposed of on payment of massive backhanders and driving licences have been sold back to convicted drink-drivers . |
| 6 | Business travellers are important customers to the travel trade , and keep the airlines busy ; about half of all airline scheduled flight tickets are sold to business travellers . |
| 7 | Fat lambs and pigs are sold to local abattoirs and bacon factories . |
| 8 | Many of the fodder crops are sold to the hill farmers and some are used to fatten the lambs . |
| 9 | Among the home-grown equipment were a number of cheap devices that are sold to schools . |
| 10 | The skins are sold to the rug trade and in future they may be used for making garments . |
| 11 | Many of the pills and capsules which are sold to slimmers as appetite suppressants consist largely of methyl cellulose . |
| 12 | He is subcontracted to a factory , and receives 150 cruzeiros for each one ( about 10 cents ) ; these are sold to tourists at 100 times as much . |
| 13 | With his parents and sister involved as well , Larkins Brewery produces up to 30 barrels a week ( each barrel is 36 gallons ) and they are sold to discerning pubs in Kent and Sussex . |
| 14 | Billions of dollars of commercial mortgages have been securitised ( ie , bundled up to back tradable bonds that are sold to investors ) ; real-estate investment trusts ( a tax-favoured property-investment vehicle ) are booming ; and other ways of encouraging more investors to own small parts of big buildings are being explored . |
| 15 | Cassettes cost about the same to manufacture as CDs , but are sold to retailers for a third less . |
| 16 | The Schneiderei 's six-member managing committee of writers , musicians and visual artists ( Margaret Bozionek , Heinz Conrads , Jutta Rinas , Ingrid Roscheck , Manos Tsangaris and Thomas Witzmann ) abhor the description ‘ alternative ’ , but the collective 's soft-sell policy by which works are sold to further the gallery 's own activities rather than for profit has helped it to weather the uneasy times faced by traditional commercial galleries . |
| 17 | This is odd as over 85 per cent of Saabs , including Carlssons , are sold to business users , who presumably do not hang around outside nightclubs in the evening . |
| 18 | This method of retail distribution operates throughout Britain and America ; titles are sold to newsagents , drugstores and other outlets on a sale or return basis . |
| 19 | ( i ) any goods listed above are sold to a bidder for less than his highest bid or part of the price is repaid or credited to him ( or stated to be so ) ; or ( ii ) the right to bid for any goods listed above is ( or is stated to be ) restricted to persons who have bought or agreed to buy one or more articles ; or ( iii ) any articles are given away or offered as gifts . |
| 20 | If £1 billion of Treasury bills are sold to the discount houses , the discount houses will borrow money at call from the banks , or sell bills to the banks , to pay for these Treasury bills . |
| 21 | If £1 billion of bonds are sold to the banks , the banks ' balances at the Bank of England will be reduced by £1 billion . |
| 22 | Capturing the animals entails shooting the adult females , whose skulls are sold to tourists . |
| 23 | Then they had to survive the River Severn eel harvest — most are sold to East Europe and Germany where they 're a delicacy . |
| 24 | The vast majority of PEPs in numerical terms are sold to basic rate taxpayers . |
| 25 | The offer price of units ( the price at which they are sold to investors ) and the bid price ( the price at which they are bought by investors ) are worked out day-to-day , and are determined by the daily market value of the net assets of the trust . |
| 26 | Such a product example is carburettors , which are sold to automobile manufacturers ; the automobiles are then sold to car distributors and the car distributors sell to the end consumers . |
| 27 | Substantial quantities are sold to the ICI/EniChem joint venture , EVC , to produce polyvinyl chloride [ PVC ] while the remainder is used to make chlorinated fluorocarbons [ CPCs ] , chloromethanes , solvents , polyurethanes , ‘ Cereclor ’ chlorinated paraffins and ‘ Alloprene ’ chlorinated rubbers . |
| 28 | At present , six to eight tenders are made for each bus contract but this element of competition may be reduced or disappear if the eight municipal companies are sold to one or other of the large bus companies . |
| 29 | They supply a constant load , therefore , so the user , the electricity user , has to be persuaded to even out his use of electricity , so night storage heaters are sold to people , just to be switched on at night , in order to provide a smoothing of the demand load . |
| 30 | Boeing components are alleged to have been sold to the Iranians by the London-based Aer Lingus controlled spares company Alpex , which has since been wound up . |