Example sentences of "to buy from " in BNC.

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1 Their function now is to make a good job of delivering the railway services that the PTEs and sectors want to buy from them .
2 Fruit cages are relatively expensive and you have to consider whether it would be cheaper to buy from a pick-your-own farm than to pay for a fruit cage .
3 Care should be taken to buy from a breeder with a reputation for breeding good temperaments
4 Go to any demonstration worthy of the name these days , and you are swamped by offers to buy from an intimidating array of news sheets , statements or appeals published by informal associations .
5 Knighton is ready to offer the Manchester United boss a new deal on the 50.6 per cent shareholding which he sought to buy from Edwards for £10m , and which is now the subject of a damaging legal wrangle in the High Court .
6 Eventually every electricity user will be able to buy from whichever supplier offers the best deal .
7 Economic reform has so far meant that Poles can gaze in wonderment at now well-stocked meat stalls they have no money to buy from .
8 If you do decide to buy from a private bazaar you will be expected to haggle .
9 This was another futile pretension of formality , since anyone wanting to buy from Nana 's small , dusty stock of essentials when the window was shuttered simply wandered into the yard and called for attention .
10 And then came your call for us to buy from W H Smith .
11 I am left to live out my life with only the few possessions I have managed to buy from my pension , because of Gary .
12 There are lubricants like KY jelly and Senselle to buy from chemists without prescription — and considerably more pleasant to use than petroleum jelly .
13 Measures passed in December include : a national drug company to buy from foreign companies and sell generic drugs without brand names ( at low prices ) ; a limit of three versions of any one drug to be on sale and a special tax on foreign drug firms to pay for the national company .
14 This sounds like an invitation to buy from renewable technologies until you realise that the intended non-fossil fuel source is nuclear power .
15 A natural target , then : a nationwide monopoly , compelling the public to buy from a single supplier .
16 GPA Group 's bank debts have risen by £1.1bn since 31 March ; the increase is due to the purchase of aircraft it contracted to buy from manufacturers .
17 Either way you can make a sale to a customer who otherwise may not be able to buy from you or who you may not have previously considered as a prospect .
18 ‘ But there will be books to buy from men who are finished with them from last year ; it will cost less , ’ said Willie .
19 Now the company they tried to buy from has complained that the price agreed is too low .
20 We do provide high-quality mugs and T-shirts to print on but an operative is welcome to buy from cheaper competition if they can find it . ’
21 Apple Computer Inc on Wednesday launches its first full-function servers , and with them hopes to persuade small- and medium-size businesses to buy from it all the computer equipment they need ; the new Workgroup servers can process data up to four times faster than Quadras , and although they will support alien machines , they are designed primarily for networks consisting mainly of Macintoshes ; the Workgroup Server Models 60 and 80 cost from $3,080 to $10,000 , the high-end Model 95 at $7,600 to $13,000 ; the 95 is out by the end of April the other two this summer ; the company also has a new Release 4.0 of its AppleShare file and print sharing software , and a high-end AppleShare Pro ; the company is also launching AppleTalk Connection for MS-DOS and Windows to enable cross communications between Macintosh and MS-DOS boxes in a network .
22 ‘ We originally thought the IXI name would go away , ’ says new owner , Santa Cruz Operation Inc : instead the company will use the IXI name as a brand for its front-end technologies and it will also use the IXI connection to try and win accounts that would otherwise be unwilling to buy from Santa Cruz , but do n't give a damn who owns IXI .
23 Since the argument between the two centres on how open each country 's market and regulatory climate are , an increase in Telecom 's ability to buy from US suppliers could be used as evidence of the openness of the UK market .
24 Is n't it easier to buy from one source ?
25 It will also use the IXI connection to try and win accounts that would otherwise be unwilling to buy from SCO , but do n't care who owns IXI .
26 It is also encouraging resellers , particularly VARS , to buy from master resellers such as Arrow Electronics , Access Graphics and Intelligent Electronics .
27 If you want to buy expensive goods , the best advice must be to buy from stores in Britain ( because here , your complaint is with the retailer , not the manufacturer ) and to campaign for EC consumer protection laws .
28 As shopkeepers themselves , Reg and Sue like to buy from local shops .
29 The telecoms and defence of officials usually preferred to buy from a small group of two or three national companies .
30 But until the Government see the light , stay safe and try to buy from shops where everything , however small , comes with a ready-fitted plug .
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