Sentence examples for as scrap for from inspiring English sources

The roof ripped off, the fixtures removed as scrap for melting.

Sgt. Joseph W. Vitarelli, a Cherry Hill police detective, said the statue sold as scrap for a few thousand dollars, a small fraction of its value as art.

In the meantime, I could not afford another car and after paying for four months' storage, I sold the car as scrap for £500.

Last year, the aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal was sold as scrap for £3m.

Although the council had promised to store the complex central core and legs, these too were cut apart during removal, casting doubt on future prospects for the landmark sculpture's return, and in early July 2012 the core was sold as scrap for £17,000.

Horror at the suggestion that inside we too are just this: a mass of squiggly tubes, which can be tossed into a bucket and sold as scraps for dogs?

The carrier was initially sold for breaking up as scrap metal for A$1.7 million, although the sale fell through in June 1984.

In some cases, thieves were stripping entire oil facilities, such as pumping stations, and shipping their contents across the Shatt al Arab Channel to Iran, where they could be sold as scrap metal for fifty dollars a ton.

"The goods were declared as scrap metal for recycling and the law is quite clear on this, that it's illegal to export any form of waste for disposal from the UK".

On 24 January 2000, the part of the radiation therapy unit containing the radiation source was acquired by two scrap collectors, who claimed to have bought it from some strangers as scrap metal for resale.

But as people scrap for resources and stresses intensify, resentment is growing against the disabled, undermining any good things the government is doing in this area.