Example sentences of "[verb] at [art] cost " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , for all the splendours of the Monument Valley scenery and Fonda 's tight-lipped moral integrity , there is a downside to his crusade , which is only won at the cost of the lives of two of his brothers and involves the death of Doc Holliday ( Victor Mature ) , a noble outlaw who gets washed away by bullets and consumption along with the bad elements . |
| 2 | All the options came out filling Sweden 's energy needs at a cost of between $5.5 and $7 billion per year , or from 2 to 2.9 cents per kWh . |
| 3 | On 19 June 1841 the spire of St Michael 's was struck by lightning so severely that it had to be taken down and rebuilt at a cost of £84 , paid for by the Buxtons . |
| 4 | The stand contained 4,100 seats , installed at a cost of 2d each , and incorporated the latest in spectator comfort . |
| 5 | All alleys shall be painted white or yellow by the building owners and alley lights will be installed at the cost of the owner . |
| 6 | A big loss was suffered on the course in 1975 when 40 elm trees were felled at a cost of £1,400 owing to Dutch Elm Disease . |
| 7 | The dead room ( mortuary ) was provided with a table and shell at a cost of £1.4s.0d . |
| 8 | Murder was always solved at a cost , sometimes to himself , more often to others . |
| 9 | About a month later the buyer had the clutch repaired at a cost of £45 and claimed this sum from the seller , alleging that the car was not of merchantable quality and not reasonably fit for the purpose of being driven on the road . |
| 10 | Despite earlier fears , the Baltic Exchange will not have to be demolished and is to be repaired at the cost of about £80 million . |
| 11 | The wave was kapu , as the Hawaiians said , a forbidden zone you visited at the cost of your life . |
| 12 | For much of the period overmanning was absorbed at the cost of lower absolute levels of productivity ( despite the quite good record in terms of productivity growth ) , and the full extent of the burden was not revealed until the late 1970s as international competition drove sectors of British industry to the point of collapse [ Prais , 1981 ] . |
| 13 | Premises at East Tullos in Aberdeen are being extended and upgraded at a cost of £0 5 million in support of a long term logistics partnering contract awarded by Enterprise Oil during the year . |
| 14 | This will generate at a cost of 10 pence per kilowatt-hour but the Department of Energy has stated that 20 to 30 such aerogenerators could produce electricity for one-third of this cost . |
| 15 | Distribution of Investment Overviews should be done at no cost to the initiating member or his client . |
| 16 | The report recommends that the Royal London and the London Chest Hospitals should be expanded at the cost of the unit at St Bartholomew 's , which should close . |
| 17 | We are looking at a cost of about five hundred pound for these , plus two hundred pound shipping charges , and we 're going to need four or five of them . |
| 18 | Nor would he accept that he should work out the sum due by looking at the cost of providing a type of car which Mr Shove ‘ might reasonably be expected to acquire in his present circumstances ’ . |
| 19 | Elements of the new approach include looking at the cost of environmental degradation of an area in terms of : its effect on house prices ; the cost of alternative methods of transport ; the value local people place on maintaining environmental features intact ; and an assessment of the cost of replacement , for example moving a colony of badgers . |
| 20 | Erm , right , we 'll have Shirley as the client , and we 're a life company and we 're looking at the cost of providing Shirley with life cover . |
| 21 | Malik , a Cambridge Blue , owns the Reflex health club , which used to be Rugby 's clubhouse before they moved to the new one next door this season built at a cost of £438,000 . |
| 22 | What is reputed to be the most sophisticated and expensive windmill in the world is to be built at a cost of £10.5 million in the Orkneys . |
| 23 | The club is having to play all its fixtures away from home for the second successive season because a new roof is being built at a cost of £1.3million . |
| 24 | He designed Horbury 's elegant Parish Church of St Peter and St Leonard , with its distinctive six-stage tower and had it built at a cost to himself of £8,000 in 1790–1794 . ’ |
| 25 | Iran 's President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani on Tuesday inaugurated Iran 's first plant manufacturing semiconductors according to Teheran Radio , which said that the Centre for Research and Production of Semiconductors was built at a cost of $6m plus $2.5m in local currency . |
| 26 | Built at a cost of almost £2,800 million , including the costs of its share of supporting facilities , THORP 's business is now worth around £9,000 million . |
| 27 | EP2 , built at a cost of £250 million , was begun in mid 1988 and employed a 1,000-strong contractor workforce at the project 's peak . |
| 28 | The Thermal Oxide Reprocessing Plant ( THORP ) , built at a cost of £2.6 billion , is due to start up in 1993 . |
| 29 | Biggest of all is Société Congolais Bois de Ouesso , 51 per cent owned by the Congo government , whose sophisticated sawmill and veneer works , built at a cost of US$63 million , mostly supplied by foreign aid donors , has never operated . |
| 30 | Torture chamber for the first time , it has been purpose built at a cost of £300,000 . |