1.   Given the way in which the grant works, the national gallery is only able to buy works on instalments.

2.   They bought works of art, lace, firearms.

3.   Among the artists whose works he bought over the years are Joel Shapiro, Ellsworth Kelly and Jim Dine.

4.   And the heavily endowed Carnegie can afford to buy major works out of the show, a reality Boston-area museums can only envy.

5.   And over the past few years, they have consistently bought works, either at auction, from dealers or directly from artists, in ever larger numbers.

6.   After college, he began to buy inexpensive works of art that bespoke catholic interests.

7.   Dealers started buying new works from hot artists sight-unseen, knowing they could resell them at a handsome profit to eager collectors.

8.   Even the new National Gallery of Modern Art, which is to open in December, has been borrowing rather than buying works of top contemporary artists.

9.   He bought works of art.

10.   He returned to buy two works, which he thought of as decoration for his apartment.