Example sentences of "sold at a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The shadow Environment Secretary , Mr Bryan Gould , maintained water was being sold at a loss . |
| 2 | The shadow Environment Secretary , Mr Bryan Gould , maintained water was being sold at a loss . |
| 3 | ‘ It is a grey area but I would say if these toys are sold at a fête or bazaar then they are being retailed . |
| 4 | These three vices are universally regarded as so detrimental to a horse , and so incurable , that if one is detected in a horse soon after it has been sold at a reputable horse auction , it is grounds for its sale to be cancelled . |
| 5 | Potential purchasers can willingly stay out of the market and owners can stay put , but lenders — and the insurance companies which share the losses — will face yet further provisions as more repossessed homes are sold at a loss . |
| 6 | Invariably such products are sold at a premium price quite unjustified by the cost of their components . |
| 7 | Except in a few cases , where the law states that a product must be sold at a fixed price ( ie all retailers must charge the same price ) , retailers can charge what they like ! |
| 8 | ) . Once inside the store , the retailer hopes , the customer will not only buy the product on offer , but also many other items , which are sold at a much higher profit . |
| 9 | Out of-date-stock Life-dated products not sold before their expiry date may have to be sold at a lower price ( or even discarded altogether ) . |
| 10 | Where an offer is made to shareholders and shares are sold at a higher price than the original offer , the compulsory bid is deemed to be revised , again ensuring that shareholders are treated equally . |
| 11 | As most of the privatisation issues are sold at a discount , there is usually a substantial capital gain to be made . |
| 12 | This is an independent , five-year parts and labour warranty , which is sold at a competitive rate . |
| 13 | Of course the cones with brand names , sold by the firms we know ( and love ) are well worth having ; often these are sold at a reduction , especially for the Show . |
| 14 | these cones can be a real bargain , since they are usually ‘ ends of line ’ from the commercial manufacturers and are sold at a very good price . |
| 15 | The cost of his travels and his books ( many of which were distributed free or sold at a subsidized price ) was heavy . |
| 16 | Rather than waste unwanted vintages they are sold at a huge discount straight from the barrel — the resulting parties are superb fun . |
| 17 | First there is the fact that when the work has become a commodity , produced to be sold at a profit , the internal calculations of any such market production lead directly to new forms of cultural control and especially cultural selection . |
| 18 | So , for example , a new fibre-tipped pen , in a range of such pens offered by a newcomer to the market , may be sold at a loss in order to draw attention to the range as a whole , and to establish a share of the total market . |
| 19 | The very successful Dexion slotted angle iron appealed to a very broad market ( anyone whose used storage ) yet it was specialised for the job it had to do and sold at a good price . |
| 20 | There is no intrinsic benefit gained from paying farmers not to produce food , or from paying for food to be stored and destroyed rather than sold at a fair market price . |
| 21 | Into this imaginary world of people unable to learn from their market experience let us now introduce a group of outsiders who are themselves neither would-by sellers nor would-be buyers , but who are able to perceive opportunities for entrepreneurial profits ; that is , they are able to see where a good can be sold at a price higher than that for which it can be bought . |
| 22 | Native wind instruments fashioned from tiny straws are sold at a fraction of the cost of matchbox-size ghetto-blasters . |
| 23 | Of those , 35 were liquidated or went into receivership , 38 were sold at a loss , and only 29 were sold at a price that returned the initial taxpayers ' investment . |
| 24 | Of those , 35 were liquidated or went into receivership , 38 were sold at a loss , and only 29 were sold at a price that returned the initial taxpayers ' investment . |
| 25 | It is extraordinary that only last week the Leader of the Opposition confirmed that the Labour party is still wedded to bodies such as the national enterprise board , despite the fact that , of the 102 companies in which that body invested , about 35 went bust , 38 were sold at a loss and only the remainder managed even to return taxpayers ' money . |
| 26 | The Edel MacBride label is already familiar to Chicago with clothing being sold at a large department store in the city . |
| 27 | If sold at a loss , the distributable reserves of the purchaser may be protected , assuming that the purchaser does not need to provide against its investment in the IHC . |
| 28 | You can go along there and make crafts cards and Christmas presents no experience is necessary and you can take one object home each day and the remaining items will be sold at a Christmas Craft Fair to raise funds for the arts project . |
| 29 | All these securities are sold at a discount to their par value . |
| 30 | Securities that are sold at a discount , pay no interest explicitly , and mature at par are known as pure discount securities . |