Example sentences of "[adv] [be] sell for " in BNC.

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1 Latterly , until its closure in 1963 , it was used by the permanent-way department , and has since been sold for industrial purposes .
2 Naturally , VI would rather sell X-Designer than enhance rival products , but in the US where X-Designer has only been sold for the past year , rival products have a much stronger hold and the separation of the Graph Widgets enables a toehold into these accounts for the VI sales force .
3 The disclosure has led to the closure of the nursery -but the stock could only be sold for £26,246 because most growers had made their seasonal purchases .
4 The Borrowdale mines in the lane District , discovered in 1564 , yielded such fine graphite that it was jealously guarded , extractions only being sold for six weeks of the year .
5 The police are now trying to recover two more stolen cars which had already been sold for up to thirty thousand pounds .
6 Hundreds of tickets have already been sold for the July 25 gig and organisers predict all 35,000 tickets will be gone by next weekend .
7 Under The Stock Exchange rules regarding rights issues , the rights must normally be sold for the benefit of the non-accepting shareholders unless arrangements to the contrary have been specifically approved by the shareholders in general meeting and The Stock Exchange has been consulted .
8 Government bonds will not usually be issued at par ; each £100 nominal value of stock will usually be sold for less than £100 .
9 He said that in future ‘ no animals will ever be sold for research purposes . ’
10 These had originally been envisaged as rewards for the undertaking of religious exercises , but during the late medieval period were increasingly also being sold for cash .
11 More than 4,000 tickets have so far been sold for next month 's event which will have as it 's feature bout the fight between Nigel Benn and Italian Mauro Galvano .
12 NGC 's physical security arm has now been sold for $20m .
13 Mr Kerry 's home has now been sold for over twenty thousand pounds less than he paid …
14 In addition , he pointed out that the price/performance ratio has changed by a factor of 6,000 in the past few years : ‘ If the car industry had had the same change that the computer industry has experienced since 1960 , a car that cost $10,000 in 1960 would now be sold for $1 , ’ he said .
15 To make matters worse , practices that were valued at twice gross recurring fees a few years ago are now being sold for half recurring fees .
16 Rights have even been sold for a 3,000 copy Faroese edition of the Children 's Encyclopaedia — one copy per household in the Faroe Islands .
17 We told how monkeys from the two parks have been sent to Shamrock Farms , near Brighton , for breeding — and have then been sold for medical research or slaughtered .
18 If the Government had given away Hampshire Bus and the assets had then been sold for £2 , 1 million , the profit would have been the same to the buyer , and the loss to the public purse in real terms would have been no less .
19 You are more likely to have a rug accepted by an auctioneer if you are prepared to put it up without a reserve ( a figure agreed between you and the auctioneer below which they will not sell the rug ) , but this is extremely risky as it could then be sold for far less than it is worth .
20 The machines have useful lives estimated at three years and will then be sold for £100 each .
21 ‘ In addition , it provides a local market in which we can add value to 200,000 tonnes of commercially-grown pine which would otherwise be sold for processing outside the Highlands .
22 Having noticed an item in the US News section of a recent NME claiming that an original stereo copy of BOB DYLAN 's ‘ Freewheelin' ’ album had recently been sold for $US 12,000 , I hastened to check my dad 's original copy .
23 First , the long term investor ( the one , Manne suggests , we should be most keen to protect ) must actually be selling for reasons other than to make a quick profit .
24 However , bargains were to be had in this depressed time , with a Cessna 0–2A expected to sell in the $85–105,000 range actually being sold for $56,000 .
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