Example sentences of "[be] bought at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Specificity and detail are bought at the cost of ease of understanding and speed of completion . |
| 2 | The trouble with firms is that ‘ team ’ production gains are bought at the cost of opportunities to ‘ shirk ’ . |
| 3 | The man 's brown tricorne hat had come from neither the French nor the British army , but had been bought at the market in the Norman town of Caen . |
| 4 | The agreements with the United States had been bought at the cost of disproportionate cuts in Soviet weaponry and were clearly dictated by the need to reduce military spending , a much heavier relative burden for the USSR than for the United States . |
| 5 | The term covers such a wide array of diverse explanations that the survival might have been bought at the cost of radical change to its empirical and normative content . |
| 6 | And that support had been bought at the cost of considerably increasing the budget . |
| 7 | Today 's profit has been bought at the cost of tens of thousands of pay-packets . |
| 8 | The undoubted benefits of the greater mathematical rigour which these models incorporate may have been bought at the cost of a loss of perspective on the world ‘ out there ’ . |
| 9 | MV Oh , pornography can already be bought at the news stands . |
| 10 | Given that snail longevity has to be bought at the cost of some loss in the snail 's reproductive success , the fluke genes are ‘ happy ’ to make the snail pay that cost , since they have no interest in the snail 's reproducing itself . |
| 11 | Any remaining tickets can be bought at the door on the night of the demonstration . |
| 12 | He told Aenarion that he would be accursed if he drew the weapon , that such power was too great for any mortal being , and it could only be bought at the price of Aenarion 's immortal soul . |
| 13 | And of course , there are apples to be bought at the farm gate and cider from the press to carry away as a reminder of the time spent in the Marcle Ridge . |
| 14 | The little volume , which deals with cooking out of doors for motorists , cyclists , campers , walkers , and fishermen has never been translated into English and would n't be of much practical use to us if it were , because the majority of the recipes are based on the products to be bought at the " village charcutier " , an institution which does n't exist in the British Isles . |
| 15 | Tickets can be bought at the Richmond Centre in Derry . |
| 16 | Expansionary monetary and fiscal policies could only be bought at the expense of higher inflation rates . |
| 17 | It appeared that the extraction could still be used and would be bought at the same price for compounding into cattle food , but not for compounding into poultry food . |
| 18 | But if , indeed , higher returns on retirement can be bought at the expense of derisory returns on death , how is it that terminal bonuses play such an important part in the ultimate returns . |
| 19 | With Britain 's security in its greatest peril , American support was bought at the price of much of Britain 's long-developed overseas economic power . |
| 20 | The home happiness , refinement and sheltered grace of middle-class women , she insisted , was bought at the price of other women 's toil and suffering . |
| 21 | This modest success was bought at the expense of mounting employee grievances . |