Example sentences of "[noun] more expensive [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Imported cutlery is also bought in American dollars and , while the exchange rate of sterling to the dollar was very favourable for Britain last year , it has dropped considerably in the past six months , making imported cutlery more expensive to buy . |
| 2 | Parents in the new cities , with their clean water and sewage systems , found their healthy offspring more expensive to feed , clothe and educate so they decided , without the help of any population policy , to limit the size of their families . |
| 3 | Production staff must be conscious that how they build products may affect its EMC performance ; service engineers , likewise , must be sure that they do not compromise EMC once products are in the field ; the purchasing department must be aware that EMC constraints placed on suppliers may make a component more expensive to buy , but will probably save money when the end product is tested as a whole ; and the marketing and sales department must plan to sell the advantage which EMC brings to a product . |
| 4 | offers potentially to enhance citizen participation in local government , to inform citizens of their rights and duties , and to provide new information-services to citizens , but on balance it reinforces local dominant coalitions , makes local government more expensive to run , makes it less responsive to the general public , and tends to exclude many interests ; |
| 5 | That , in theory , ought to offer an elegant way to encourage people to use less and recycle more , not by taxing the output of waste , but by making new materials more expensive to use . |
| 6 | Rubbish they 're probably a lot more expensive to run than this |