(1) It is the biggest privatisation since John Major sold the railways in the 1990s.
(2) Alfred Liyolo, 71, one of Congo’s leading sculptors , sold several bronzes to the palace in Gbadolite and designed a church and tomb for Mobutu’s first wife; all were lost or destroyed in the looting.
(3) Half a million homes were sold in Scotland, we lost a huge, huge chunk of stock, and as house prices began to escalate so any asset to the community has gone.
(4) Ultimately, both Geffen and Browne turned out to be correct: establishing the pattern for Zevon's career, the albums sold modestly but the critics loved them.
(5) Perhaps local governments could contribute a proportion of the asking price of a house if it is to be sold to a local who will actually live in it?
(6) Davies, who worked closely with AHTSYL's producers to ensure an accurate picture, worries that some medical stories are sold solely as "emotional journeys".
(7) Glencore has responded in textbook fashion: it has cut operating costs, sold assets and taken the axe to capital investment.
(8) The animals were sold only to smaller farms (less than 500 sows for breeding) with concentional keeping patterns which were kept under constant diagnostic supervision.
(9) More Apple and Android phones have now been sold, for example, than all the Japanese cameras ever made.
(10) Last year Ford sold more than 25,000 white Fiestas.
(11) The four other works were sold at auction at Christie's and disappeared into private collections.
(12) He knew how to shmooze Middle East clients and his al-Yamamah deal - under which jets were sold to Saudi Arabia - was the mid-1980s contract which secured his later position as executive chairman at BAE Systems .
(13) She, and three other captives, were told that if they didn't pay $10,000 each within a few days, they would be sold to Bedouin traffickers in Sinai.
(14) Top Gear, Robin Hood, Doctor Who, Primeval and Spooks were the company's top five highest-grossing shows sold internationally.
(15) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The flat in Crouch End, north London that Linda Grant bought for £92,000 in 1994 and sold for £660,000 last year.
(16) "Weirdly, we sold it to lots of European countries where there's not only the issue about knowing who Steve and Rob are, but I assume all the impressions are slightly lost on them.
(17) I believe that this show, this story, deserves a life.” Cattrall was in Cannes to promote the show, which is currently being sold to broadcasters.
(18) Since 2006, some charities have sold donated goods as agent of the donor and then written to the donor, asking if they wish to give the proceeds of sale to the charity.
(19) The global black market in animal and plants, sold as food, traditional medicines and exotic pets, is worth billions and sees an estimated 350 million specimens traded every year.
(20) When Hussain gave him a camera and told Cromitie to reconnoitre targets, he promptly sold it.
Wold
Definition:
(n.) A wood; a forest.
(n.) A plain, or low hill; a country without wood, whether hilly or not.
(n.) See Weld.
Example Sentences:
(1) Verity said: "I would imagine that it's not impossible that over time the Wolds will become as well known as the Dales and other parts of Yorkshire … because of the Hockney effect.
(2) And even for the non-specialist, certain lines, such as "Bot Arthure wolde not ete til al were served", present little problem, especially when placed within the context of the narrative.
(3) Now, after decades of remaining quietly out of the national spotlight, the gentle hillsides and country lanes of the Yorkshire Wolds are preparing for a deluge of attention brought on by interest in David Hockney's latest paintings.
(4) Expression of a 13.7-kDa protein encoded by a gene in the E3 transcription unit is necessary and sufficient for this effect (Carlin et al., Cell, 1989; B. L. Hoffman, A. Ullrich, W. S. M. Wold, and C. R. Carlin, Mol.
(5) The 31 human adenovirus (Ad) serotypes form five groups based upon DNA genome homologies: group A (Ad12, 18, 31), group B (Ad3, 7, 11, 14, 16, 21), group C (Ad1, 2, 5, 6), group D (Ad8, 9, 10, 13, 15, 17, 19, 20, 22-30), and group E (Ad4) (M. Green, J. Mackey, W. Wold, and P. Rigden, Virology, in press).
(6) Choosing to do a lot of things unilaterally on immigration wold be a big mistake.” he said.
(7) Looking at the many pictures in one room that Hockney has made using the Brush app on an iPad, King says "there's a sense of the wolds in all of them.
(8) The purpose of this study was to validate the results obtained by Watson, Gasser, Schaefer, Buranen, and Wold (1981) by utilizing the Smith Symbol-Digit Modalities Test (Form W) and the MMPI (Psychiatric-Organic) scale in combination.
(9) 10, 5521-5524; Tollefson, A. E., Krajcsi, P., Yei, S., Carlin, C. R., and Wold, W. S. M. (1990) J. Virol.
(10) What he said yesterday is what he said in June last year - a year ago now.During the Confederations Cup, similar concerns were raised and we did say that vuvuzelas characterise in 2010 the FIFA Wold Cup in South Africa.
(11) Now the spotlight will turn from being on the Dales and other places, to the Wolds."
(12) We have reported that the E3 14,700-dalton protein (E3 14.7K protein) protects adenovirus-infected mouse C3HA fibroblasts against lysis by tumor necrosis factor (TNF) (L. R. Gooding, L. W. Elmore, A. E. Tollefson, H. A. Brady, and W. S. M. Wold, Cell 53:341-346, 1988).
(13) The group agree that his swirling patterns capture the wolds's eroded landscapes – Farnsworth says some of the hills are so steep shepherds use quad bikes.
(14) U.S.A. 79, 7639-7643; Wold, M. S., Mallory, J.B., Roberts, J. D., LeBowitz, J. H., and McMacken, R. (1982) Proc.
(15) While a corollary to Wold's decomposition theorem implies that the discrete Fourier periodogram spectral estimate and the autoregressive spectral estimate converge asymptotically, there are practical differences between the two approaches when applied to short blocks of data.
(16) "He's an incredibly talented observer but when he introduces colour he's clearly capturing his feeling about a place – and I think that does relate to how we view the wolds," counters Bramley.
(17) A screening program for cervical infection which tested women with 1 or both risk markers wold have a sensitivity of 68% and a positive predictive value of 0.35.
(18) In adenovirus-infected cells, the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGF-R) is internalized from the cell surface via endosomes and is degraded, and the E3 10,400-dalton protein (10.4K protein) is required for this effect (C. R. Carlin, A. E. Tollefson, H. A. Brady, B. L. Hoffman, and W. S. M. Wold, Cell 57:135-144, 1989).
(19) We have characterized the biosynthesis and processing of a 91 amino acid hydrophobic integral membrane protein encoded by human group C adenoviruses which down-regulates the EGF receptor (Carlin, C. R., Tollefson, A. E., Brady, H. A., Hoffman, B. L., and Wold, W. S. M. (1989) Cell 57, 135-144).
(20) There are only 50 people in the wold today, maybe it gets up to 100 on a good day, who are actually doing light-curve analysis,” said Kessler, referring to the process by which someone tracks an asteroid over the course of an evening, to help get a sense of its “spin rate” – which helps Nasa develop a model to understand its shape.