Example sentences of "sales to [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A first step must be to restrict any military hardware sales to defensive weapons . |
| 2 | Meanwhile , a report from Credit Suisse says China will step up gold sales to 100-120 tonnes this year , to help pay off its mounting foreign debts . |
| 3 | Specific requirements are that Unix or VMS is usually the primary operating system and that primary distribution is via direct or OEM sales to technical markets . |
| 4 | Specific requirements are that Unix or VMS is usually the primary operating system and that primary distribution is via direct or OEM sales to technical markets . |
| 5 | ‘ Oh , just the small matter of the DGSE turning a blind eye to arms sales to Iranian terrorists in return for the release of our French hostages in Beirut . ’ , |
| 6 | NATIONAL Power and PowerGen , the privatised power generators , are making changes in the way they account for direct sales to industrial companies to reduce the risk of discrimination and cross-subsidies . |
| 7 | The crisis also caused renewed Israeli anxiety over US arms sales to Arab countries . |
| 8 | Britain has won third place in the arms-sales league table — behind the US and the Soviet Union — partly because the US Zionist lobby has prevented many sales to Arab states from Washington , which has forced the Arabs to go elsewhere . |
| 9 | Sybase expects System 10 products to kick into its revenue stream immediately — its current business is evenly split between sales to new customers and upgrades at existing sites . |
| 10 | Sybase expects System 10 products to kick into its revenue stream immediately — its current business is evenly split between sales to new customers and upgrades at existing sites . |
| 11 | When a Serbian family in the village of Zakuti sold some of their land to Albanians , the local committee of the Party decided that this was an act of ‘ treachery ’ , and demanded that in future the law banning sales to other nationalities should be strictly enforced . |
| 12 | The " Guardian " is the FJC/AMD designation of the USCG aircraft to be used in promoting sales to other countries . |
| 13 | ‘ In periods when banks and building societies reduce their holdings of gilts , extra sales to other sectors will be needed . |
| 14 | It was , the company decided , more autonomy : the ability to improve engineering through partnerships with other parts-makers , and to tap economies of scale through sales to other carmakers . |
| 15 | Turnover represents sales to outside customers at invoiced amount less value added tax . |
| 16 | Turnover represents sales to outside customers at invoiced amount less VAT . |
| 17 | Turnover represents sales to outside customers at invoiced amount less value added tax . |
| 18 | Fujitsu Ltd has come out with a new multimedia multiplexer in its DMIX series , one of a series of multiplexers designed for its Network Solution 2000 network architecture : the new E-2570 DMIX has a capacity of 10 data channels and six speech voice channels , and comes between the large capacity E-2570 DMIX and the compact E-2300 series Compact MUX ; Fujitsu expects to sell 5,000 units over three years , starting in June , at a price of $73,000 ) ; the E-2500 series DMIX and E-2300 series Compact MUX were released in September last year and Fujitsu says by the end of last month , sales to 100 companies had been made . |
| 19 | Only a day after reporting the second year of falling personal computer sales ( CI No 2,157 ) , the Japan Electronic Industry Development Association says that Japanese manufacturers ' shipments of personal computers jumped 6.2% in unit terms during the January to March quarter from a year earlier , and the rise in combined exports and domestic sales to 688,000 units from 648,000 units in the year-earlier quarter marked the first quarterly rise in two years ; exports rocketed 31% to 144,000 units but domestic shipments only inched up 1.1% to 544,000 units , but was still the first quarterly increase in two-and-a-half years ; because of the price wars , combined export and domestic shipments of made-in-Japan micros — when measured in currency terms , fell 8.3% — exports and home sales each off 8% . |
| 20 | House-building rebounded from a loss in 1991 to a £2.6 million profit in 1992 , thanks to a 6 per cent increase in sales to 1,289 units and improved margins , which more than made good an average 8 per cent drop in selling prices to £81,000 . |
| 21 | To help control this , all except the very smallest of businesses are required to submit on a calendar quarterly basis the aggregate value of sales to individual customers in other EC countries by reference to their foreign VAT registration number . |
| 22 | There has been a steady growth in the newer area of sales to retail outlets , some of which are supermarkets but many of which are traditional grocery shops . |
| 23 | Last year Kraft was forced to slash prices when it began losing sales to own-label cheeses that were 45% cheaper . |
| 24 | During the year , sales to Large Designs Plc totalled £2,015,000 and the amount owing to the company at 31st March 1991 was £493,000 . |
| 25 | These include sales to American museums : ‘ Pope Clement VII ’ by Sebastiano del Piombo , bought by the Getty ; ‘ St Francis and a Bishop Saint ’ and ‘ St Dominic ’ by Fra Angelico , bought by the Getty ; ‘ The Adoration of the Magi ’ by Corrado Giaquinto , bought by the Museum of Fine Arts , Boston ; ‘ Mercury and Argus ’ by Pierre-Etienne Monnot , marble sculpture , bought by the Toledo Museum of Fine Art ; ‘ Salome ’ , Picasso drypoint , bought by the Los Angeles Museum of Art ; ‘ Alice Gray ’ by Sir William Everett Millais , bought by a Japanese museum . |
| 26 | Angus Sibley , at CIBC Grenfell & Colegrave , said : ‘ With 80 per cent of sales to overseas customers , APV is an excellent hedge against sterling weakness . ’ |
| 27 | Sales to these consumers ( which had been more effectively restrained in the difficult 1940s ) rose more rapidly than those to domestic consumers in the first ten years of nationalisation . |
| 28 | What can be easier than for a manufacturer to limit his sales to those members of the public who fulfil the qualification of being this or doing that ? |
| 29 | Sales to fixed-asset ratios may be low . |
| 30 | Although in this case the seller will find it hard to argue with the buyer 's concerns , where the seller himself provides the items ( even if he charges the buyer directly or indirectly for their provision ) he may well wish to keep ownership himself , either to tie the buyer to him for future orders , or to enable him to use the items for sales to third parties , even if this is to the buyer 's detriment , and against his consent . |