Example sentences of "[verb] sales [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The aim is not only to increase sales of these products , but also to encourage customers to buy other goods at the same time . |
| 2 | The significant , and growing , incursions by far Eastern competitors into the copier market stimulated the development of a proactive , niche marketing policy centred on meeting customer specifications for integrated office systems rather than maximizing sales of standard products . |
| 3 | The " Guardian " is the FJC/AMD designation of the USCG aircraft to be used in promoting sales to other countries . |
| 4 | Locally produced sales by American firms in Japan , however , do not count as exports , nor do their local purchases of inputs count as imports . |
| 5 | The owner wished to find out whether such a relationship could be formulated and used to predict sales in other shops which he was considering adding to his chain . |
| 6 | The relaunch expenses paid off , doubling sales at many outlets , according to marketing director Peter Holmes . |
| 7 | This is quite correct and yet the preferences of green consumers are already impairing sales of poor-world wares like palm oil , coffee and sugar . |
| 8 | Turnover represents sales to outside customers at invoiced amount less value added tax . |
| 9 | Turnover represents sales to outside customers at invoiced amount less VAT . |
| 10 | Turnover represents sales to outside customers at invoiced amount less value added tax . |
| 11 | Package deals promoted by travel agents and tour operators are increasingly being used to promote sales during off-season periods . |
| 12 | * A report by members of the European Parliament calls on EC governments to use subsidies and tax incentives to stimulate sales of electric cars . |
| 13 | The base rate rise is also certain to hit sales of new cars , which fell in September for the first time in 18 months , according to new figures released yesterday . |
| 14 | But there is little doubt that price cuts in M&S food halls are intended to protect sales in premier products — which have been hit by price-cutting competitors . |
| 15 | Last year Kraft was forced to slash prices when it began losing sales to own-label cheeses that were 45% cheaper . |
| 16 | Buyers believe sales on these items would not be high enough to justify the space they would take up . |
| 17 | encourage sales of slow-moving items |
| 18 | Michael Pickard , chief executive , says that the hot summer weather favoured sales of sporting shoes , where Sears ' footwear division is under-represented . |
| 19 | Going against the trend of static or falling sales by other newspapers , our October circulation was up a fabulous 57,403 on the same month last year . |
| 20 | This has allowed the company to develop sales through local agents . |
| 21 | It sees no recovery in the world economy in 1993 and expects sales in real terms to be flat . |
| 22 | Our catchphrase for 1992 is going to be ‘ Top Line This Time ’ , reflecting our determination to push sales of new contracts forward strongly . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | C Itoh Electronics claims sales of 3,000 units since its release of CIT-XE series of X-terminals in September last year . |
| 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 | Examples of different reasons for selling include sales by individual vendors who are retiring , sales by individuals who have inherited a family business , management buy-outs , group reorganisations , unbundling or demergers as defence mechanisms against a hostile bid , group rationalisations and sales by receivers and liquidators . |
| 27 | Opponents of sales see them as reducing a vital social resource built up at the ratepayers ' expense , while proponents see sales to long-standing tenants as almost a recourse to ‘ natural justice ’ , although there are also the political overtones of the desire of Conservative politicians to build up a property-owning base to their vote . |
| 28 | And attempts by several African countries , including Zimbabwe , Kenya , Nigeria and South Africa ( would you believe it ? ) to ban sales of these soaps do not seem to have done much to lessen its ' widespread use . |
| 29 | Responding to the needs of people who live on their own — and some 36 per cent of people over 65 do — could increase sales on many items , notably food items , which rarely attract single householders because the goods are currently only available in large , wasteful quantities unless they are convenience foods . |
| 30 | Have sales of religious books matched the growth in ethnic minority groups in the UK over the last 10 years and the related interest in the religions of the Middle and Far East ? |