1.   A company cannot be sold without the approval of the shareholders.

2.   That year, several superb works of Renaissance art were sold without publicity to private investors.

3.   A promised Mercedes to take the couple to All Saints in Deganwy was sold without Joanne and Maurice being told.

4.   Steady extension of credit would allow the expanded production to be sold without any change in the rate of inflation.

5.   Some albums were also received, and sold without difficulty.

6.   An exception is made for sellers of printed matter, who are allowed to sell without licenses.

7.   And DHEA can be sold without having been declared safe and effective by the FDA.

8.   At the compact disc section, meanwhile, words and images are considered too dangerous to be sold without prior vetting and, where necessary, censorship.

9.   A certain level of suburban comfort zone must be packaged and sold without alienating the fans who like to see a face mashed against Plexiglas every few minutes.

10.   A lot of home PCs are sold without secondary CPU caches, and it hurts performance about as much as dropping down a CPU level.