Example sentences of "it [verb] to sell " in BNC.
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| 1 | The resolution also ordered " all States in which there are funds of the Government of Iraq " to transfer proceeds to a UN escrow fund , and undertook to return to Iraq all monies so raised if it agreed to sell oil under UN supervision [ see pp. 38942 ; 38788-89 ; 38838 ; 39026 ; 39115 ] . |
| 2 | If any other pioneering company had brought out a call-only cordless telephone , I wonder who would shed tears when it failed to sell . |
| 3 | Not surprisingly , it failed to sell . |
| 4 | In announcing its deal with Metromedia , McCaw also said it planned to sell its stake in a number of smaller cellular franchises in Alabama , Kentucky and Tennessee to Contel Corporation for $1.3bn . |
| 5 | Later in October the government confirmed a change in cocoa marketing strategy , saying that it planned to sell cocoa in relatively small quantities through the London market , with the aim of stimulating competition and securing an increase in prices , rather than seeking to obtain large-scale contracts with overseas buyers [ for January 1989 cocoa deal with French trading house see p. 36413 ] . |
| 6 | Trading giant Mitsubishi Corp has gained exclusive sales rights for Japan to the SNA ps5520 software package that connects the IBM Corp AS/400 used as a host with the Apple Computer Inc Macintosh as a client : the company already sells a similar package which connects IBM mainframes and Macs ; the software , as reported , was developed jointly by IBM and Apple , and has been localised by a Mitsubishi-related software house and the package will be sold through IBM Japan office systems dealers , Mac dealers and systems integrators ; the SNA ps3270 emulator is already installed on a trial basis at some 10 large companies , Mitsubishi says ; it looks to sell around 5,000 copies over the next year . |
| 7 | Athenix Corporation , the start-up X terminals company , has hit a brick wall , forcing it to try to sell itself off or auction its supposedly breakthrough Multi-X technology . |
| 8 | If a product fails to sell well , the company may be left with a lot of unwanted stock which it has to sell at a reduced price |
| 9 | The company is controlled by a US group that is up for sale and has said it wants to sell AMI . |
| 10 | If instead it wants to sell a standard part on the open market , it will be $1.75m up-front plus 10% of the chips ' average selling price . |
| 11 | If instead it wants to sell a standard part on the open market , it will be $1.75m up-front plus 10% of the chips ' average selling price . |
| 12 | The agency wants to keep them as collateral for a securitisation package it plans to sell later this year . |
| 13 | It plans to sell its franchises in those countries but continue to operate in partnership with Pepsico in Britain . |
| 14 | Santa Cruz Operation Inc , Santa Cruz , California has now filed for its initial public offering , saying that it plans to sell 4.3m shares , and will use the proceeds for working capital . |
| 15 | Non-Abta and non-Iata , it refuses to sell the traditional sun-and-sand Mediterranean package : instead it offers cheap air fares to ‘ responsive travellers ’ . |
| 16 | Zimbabwe has announced that it intends to sell its stocks of ivory , in direct contravention of the recent CITES ruling [ see ED 56 ] . |
| 17 | Despite such caveats , the deal looks sensible for BT , which should reassure the British government as it prepares to sell a third tranche of shares in the partly state-owned company . |
| 18 | ‘ he put them on the shelf and said , ‘ Let's watch over them and see how long it takes to sell them ’ . |
| 19 | But how much does it cost to sell the units ? |
| 20 | It aims to sell still further assets . |
| 21 | It hopes to sell some of the offices as going concerns . |
| 22 | It hopes to sell properties ( mostly land , because condominiums are fetching only distress prices ) worth ¥100 billion-200 billion to reduce its borrowings . |
| 23 | Information & Business Systems Tirana , a subsidiary of Hewlett-Packard Co , says it has won a $480,000 tender financed by the European Community to computerise Albanian government institutions : the project consists in supplying and installing 350 base units to the government offices , Reuter reports ; the company says it has already donated a Precision Architecture RISC Unix system worth $250,000 to the Tirana Polytechnic University and it hopes to sell another system in Albania within the next year . |
| 24 | It hopes to sell Tagamet , now a prescription drug , this way . |
| 25 | Rushton is unbothered by the separation unless presumably it helps to sell a cartoon or two and said waggishly : ‘ I view the whole affair with tremendous apathy . |
| 26 | Lastly , if resources are scarce there will be a constraint on the firm 's capacity to produce all products it wishes to sell . |
| 27 | It expects to sell , in two or three years , intelligent robots capable of limited judgement . |
| 28 | Apple Computer Inc yesterday took the new PowerCD CD-ROM product , announced at Hannover last week , to the US market , saying that it expects to sell 1.5m of the things by the end of this year ; it also said it has shipped more than 1m copies of its QuickTime multimedia software since its launch in January 1992 , and has formed a new unit , New Media to increase market access to multimedia technologies , expand multimedia content and develop new markets for Mac technology ; the PowerCD comes with AppleDesign Powered Speakers claimed to deliver high-quality sound at half the price of similar stereo speakers . |
| 29 | Microsoft Corp is spraying statistics in all directions to try and convince the industry of NT 's success : 60,000 software development kits have been sent out , it says , 25,000 dealers and the like should be trained before the launch , and it has commitments from developers that over 500 applications will be ready by the autumn — however it absolutely refuses to comment on how many copies it expects to sell . |
| 30 | Fujitsu says it expects to sell 100,000 units per month . |