Example sentences of "the goods " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the goods are drawn out of the larders , the statistics are adjusted downwards , and Brown can quickly check how much he needs to re-order . |
| 2 | In both cases , the companies were worried less about producing the goods than selling them . |
| 3 | Mr Prescott said : ‘ If private capital can not produce the goods as it said it could , they should be given a short period of time to clear the mess up , or we will take it over . |
| 4 | He introduced new boilers in the boilerhouse under the main galleries ; he installed a completely new steel structure in the ceiling above the entrance hall — without harming the ceiling paintings by Benjamin West and Angelica Kauffmann ; he rebuilt the goods lift to carry loads of up to three tonnes into the galleries ; he refurbished the public cloakrooms . |
| 5 | But in the final hour he did deliver the goods , taking impromptu questions from the audience . |
| 6 | Take along a prosperous adviser on all shopping sprees , demonstrate a high degree of trust and strong reliance in what they say and you may have unexpected protection should the seller go out of business and the goods fall to pieces . |
| 7 | But more than that , all the goods , and especially the innumerable varieties of herring , have gone upmarket . |
| 8 | Golf : Langer delivers the goods |
| 9 | Newman explains that LET works with big practices of commercial architects because time and time again they come up with the goods , on budget , on time and with none of the tantrums of the prima donna . |
| 10 | SOME 10 per cent of the goods bought at Sainsbury 's stores is now paid for by Switch debit card , accounting for a quarter of a million shoppers . |
| 11 | If a theft was involved were the goods given back ? |
| 12 | finally , a new political awareness was making Colonial populations more than ever critical of their relationship with the metropolis , Britain , for the first time in her modern Imperial history , was literally unable to deliver the goods . |
| 13 | As a result of the sterling area policy , Britain not only failed to deliver the goods but actively and blatantly exploited colonial producers . |
| 14 | Suddenly there were too many women realising that their happiness had to be taken at the expense of their men 's — men who had promised so much and could not now deliver the goods ; just like her father five years before . |
| 15 | So for the rest of the month I was in charge of wages , piece rates , training , negotiations and all the rest of it , and then one day a month I was regularly calling on the same customers in Bloomsbury and I was collecting money , selling the goods and so on , which I think was a very important part of my continued training . |
| 16 | Furthermore , the goods they consume , from food to furniture , are either currently produced by informal sector artisans , or have the potential to be produced in this way . |
| 17 | They would not be tied to the goods of donor countries , and all funds from national sources should be in the form of grants ( already the case for a majority of donors ) . |
| 18 | Then a few soldiers up at the goods store fired into their own men . ’ |
| 19 | He argued that society is at bottom a system of organization for producing the goods on which people depend for their life . |
| 20 | The goods delivered consist of everyday groceries , and they are busily collected by the villagers and thrust into bags . |
| 21 | Look at the person , not the goods . |
| 22 | If the community itself becomes prosperous , the people living in it will have more money to spend on the goods and services being provided by the companies . |
| 23 | Productivity he achieved — by 1925 a third of the films made in Britain came from Stoll 's studios at Cricklewood — but he was never anywhere near achieving his intention to ‘ leave American buyers convinced of England 's ability to deliver the goods . ’ |
| 24 | It 's very thorough , and if you are not producing the goods on the field you have to do it in training or you 'd be out . |
| 25 | All the smart money for the first to finally come up with the goods is on John Lasseter of Pixar , the perennial star of animation festivals and the winner of the 1989 animation Oscar for the short film Tin Toy . |
| 26 | Labour 's Mr Martyn Jones , MP for Clwyd South West , heads the list with a bill to give consumers a statutory guarantee of the quality of the goods they buy . |
| 27 | I had a record company screaming for final mixes , not even sure that they wanted this album because ‘ Space Oddity ’ did n't do too well and as far as they were concerned this was going to be the last they had to do with David Bowie , and I was n't delivering the goods . |
| 28 | The supermarkets get paid cash by the customer a few days after the goods arrive in their shops , while they pay their suppliers between one and two months after delivery . |
| 29 | It requires all the goods produced by different producers in any particular market to be ‘ homogeneous ’ ( ie , identical ) . |
| 30 | About 260 of Autobacs ' outlets are franchised and about 25% of the goods sold at these stores are own brands . |