Example sentences of "cost of [verb] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Once information is judged material , we weigh its relevance against the constraints , and balance the costs of reporting it against the benefits .
2 From a technical point of view the superiority of nephrite over the stones plentifully available for everyday tools would hardly justify the increased cost of ensuring adequate supplies or the enormously greater cost of shaping it to the correct form .
3 One way would be to take the cost of buying a car of the same age and then trying to quantify the cost of running it throughout the notice period .
4 It sold at a high enough price per pound to cover the cost of carrying it across the Atlantic , and Jamestown enjoyed a tobacco boom , though the increase in exports from 20,000 lb. in 1617 to 350,000 lb. in 1621 was not enough to enable the Company to show a profit , because the ( wholesale , pre-duty ) price fell from four or five shillings a pound to a shilling a pound at the same time .
5 The advantage of this is that the secretaries can be laid off during the summer recess , and MPs can avoid the cost of employing them from the ‘ expenses ’ allowance .
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