Example sentences of "have been sell " in BNC.

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1 To become an agent , these social secretaries simply have to reverse their roles with the agents who have been selling them acts for the previous few years .
2 But he was careful to appeal to the have-nots against the privileged and college-educated ‘ who have been selling this nation out — the bright young men who are born with silver spoons in their mouths . ’
3 Anyone worrying — as dealers and Christie 's once did — that these thousands of 300-year-old pots will flood the market need only look at Harrods , where Nanking Cargo plates have been selling regularly and at increasing prices since the auction ( £195 for a good teabowl , £7,000 for an ‘ encrusted ’ tureen ) and where , after the Vung Tau auction , the new pieces will also be for sale from , they expect , £50 to £10,000 .
4 One oil analyst described investor sentiment as a ‘ two-way pull between the Americans who are trying to be optimistic and the British who have been selling to them ’ .
5 Manufacturers in five countries , Britain , Canada the US , Japan and the Philippines , have been selling farmyard pumps , which the association says have ‘ failed miserably ’ because they can not stand up to all-day use .
6 ‘ They have been selling very well , so we have now extended them to over 60 stores , ’ say Sainsbury 's .
7 A company spokeswoman said : ‘ We have been selling 100 bottles a day .
8 There are between 300,000 and 400,000 personal computer versions out there , tiny numbers for a Lotus , even though personal computer networks have been selling like hot cakes .
9 Newsagents , from whom the majority of you buy your magazines , tell me that issues of GH have been selling like hot cakes over the Christmas period .
10 Leaders of the Muslim ‘ parliament ’ disclosed the plans exclusively to The People after it was learned that unscrupulous British dealers have been selling ordinary meat as Halal
11 And they would then sell these goods at high prices to those buyers who have not discovered that some sellers have been selling for low prices .
12 Large lapel buttons have been selling across the country depicting a white man in front of three other men : an Oriental wearing a coolie hat , a Sikh in a turban and a black man clutching a spear .
13 Since the ban , it appears farmers have been selling their milk to pig farmers , so the problem may simply shift from milk to pork .
14 Volunteers at Belvoir Park Hospital who run a trolley service in the wards have been selling tobacco products directly to cancer sufferers as they lay in their beds .
15 Oswald and his wife Jenny have been selling wet fish from their stall for 45 years .
16 Another class have been selling tomatoes , pears and apples , even these ideas require no hard work — no real outlay ( if home grown ) — and no difficulty — Really !
17 Recently , even those outlets have been drying up because they too have been selling the big breweries ' beer in return for cheap loans .
18 The ill-fitting Abbey Clocks and most of the assets of Lan-Elec have been sold , and Corsair 's problems have been rectified by a new face behind its managing director 's desk .
19 The minority stakes in plantations , notably Harrisons Malaya , have been sold , and the fragrances operation , Felton , will soon follow .
20 Over 350,000 copies of the trilogy have been sold and the hardback is now in its fifth reprint .
21 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 .
22 On Wednesday a spokeswoman for the Saatchi Collection told The Independent that ‘ approximately 40 to 50 works have been sold ’ , but she was equally insistent that the motive behind the sales was Saatchi 's desire to shift the emphasis of the collection more towards British art .
23 The book prospered in Japan — more than 1m copies have been sold — but Mr Morita regrets his part in the venture .
24 The bull has been so popular with commercial producers that over 900,000 doses of semen have been sold so far , and there are already more than 30,000 milking daughters in the US alone .
25 HMSO says all copies have been sold and no more will be available ‘ as publication has been suspended on instructions from the EC ’ .
26 In the past 13 years , when 250 historic houses and their estates have been sold off , Althorp has flourished .
27 And the prints have been sold across Europe — there 's been one arrest in Denmark already — including Britain .
28 In 15 years the 10,000 acres he leases have been sold at $120 an acre , then at $240 , and then seized by moneylenders when the drought of 1988 bankrupted an owner crippled with land boom loans .
29 Their ‘ dieselised ’ version of a well proved 1,600cc four-cylinder engine first set the standard in 1976 , and more than 2,300,000 have been sold since then .
30 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 .
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