Example sentences of "[noun sg] at [adj] price " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sixty per cent of all stock at half price . |
| 2 | Erm my recommendation at that price would be to say to you , do n't buy , not at four thousand pounds , when your rent is one hundred pounds a year . |
| 3 | This really is vintage material and would be worth the strongest recommendation at any price . |
| 4 | Faces in the hall registered distress at this price as it became clear to many of those present that they would be unable to win anything with their limited sources . |
| 5 | If you know that I have just bought an angora woollie at half price in a sale , it is unlikely that it came from Boots the chemist . |
| 6 | However , this can never be a free and equal contract , because the individual worker must have work at any price simply in order to survive , while the capitalist ( though needing workers ) can employ or sack any individual he chooses . |
| 7 | My father was a gentle person , wanting peace at any price . |
| 8 | As Henderson gradually became aware of the fragility of the Provisional Government and its vulnerability to Bolshevik calls for peace at any price , he was forced to reconsider his position on Stockholm . |
| 9 | Or should they abandon all illusions in the capacity of military preparations to prevent , rather than precipitate , war and opt for a policy of peace at any price , of absolute pacifism ? |
| 10 | The contrast between increased industrial output and deteriorating social and economic conditions sharpened their political consciousness and strengthened support for the clandestine labour movement , especially among the younger workers , who had not experienced the Civil War and did not have the " peace at any price " outlook of some of their parents ' generation . |
| 11 | If there is anything in this Duke of Windsor nonsense , the peace at any price brigade , that 's where it 'll come from , you can count on it . ’ |
| 12 | Only when Second and Third World factories actually begin to produce what TNCs need at competitive price , quality and delivery , will host country governments be in a position to challenge the TNCs on linkages . |
| 13 | The main point of contention , according to one of the shops visited is the distinction between what is a ‘ genuine ’ sale item ( i.e. one that has been on sale in the shop at full price for not less than 28 consecutive days during the preceding six months ) and a ‘ special purchase ’ , such as a remainder or bargain book . |
| 14 | I suppose you could access the switching of channels by means of lots of ordinary footswitches , to increase your remote control of the Quad , but with a dedicated footswitch at this price there seems little point . |
| 15 | This is shoddy stuff at any price . |
| 16 | Buyers on their part will make similar calculations ; and if at any time the price should rise considerably above 36s. they will argue that the supply will be much greater than the demand at that price : therefore even those of them who would rather pay that price than go unserved , wait ; and by waiting they help to bring the price down . |
| 17 | Of course , the financing of such an increase in government spending by the sale of an equivalent quantity of government bonds will tend to raise interest rates and thus choke off some private expenditure , but unless the interest elasticity of private expenditure is very high , or the interest elasticity of the demand for money very low , the net effect of an increase in government spending will be significantly to raise the equilibrium level of aggregate demand at any price level . |
| 18 | The result of all this was that , although at the end of the century a third of the population still lived below the poverty line and the diet of the poorest included items such as white bread , condensed milk , and vegetable oil margarine , the earnings of a Lancashire cotton operative in 1913 permitted him ‘ a breakfast of coffee or tea , bread , bacon and eggs — when eggs are cheap — a dinner of potatoes and beef , an evening meal of tea , bread and butter , cheap vegetables or fish , and a slight supper at moderate price ’ . |
| 19 | Where it 's good it 's very good indeed and all-wheel drive at this price as an obvious advantage . |
| 20 | In the context of a petrol station , the risk-averse are offered a salary plus a small performance bonus for running the station , whereas the less risk-averse are offered petrol at wholesale price and are free to decide how to behave . |
| 21 | The need for a review of the existing supply arrangements might be Occasioned by mounting dissatisfaction with current suppliers , or concern at increasing price levels . |
| 22 | The SIB defines " liquidity " as the ability of a market to accommodate transactions of reasonable size at acceptable price spreads in a short space of time . |
| 23 | What no one could have bought , what was n't for sale at any price , was Alison 's way with the place . |
| 24 | ‘ Hirst is not for sale at any price but they just do n't seem to want to accept that . |
| 25 | The amount which each farmer or other seller offers for sale at any price is governed by his own need for money in hand , and by his calculation of the present and future conditions of the market with which he is connected . |
| 26 | ( 6 ) If the company shall not within the period limited for acceptance find a Purchaser or Purchasers willing to purchase all the Shares comprised in the Transfer Notice the Proposing Transferor shall at any time within [ three ] months after the Directors have so confirmed their inability to him in writing be at liberty to transfer the Shares to any person not being a Member but capable of being a Member under these Articles on a bona fide sale at any price not being less than the Prescribed Price but in that event the Directors may , in their absolute discretion , decline to register any such transfer of any Share and shall not be required or bound to state the reason for any refusal . |
| 27 | ( 6 ) If the company shall not within the period limited for acceptance find a Purchaser or Purchasers willing to purchase all the Shares comprised in the Transfer Notice the Proposing Transferor shall at any time within [ three ] months after the Directors have so confirmed their inability to him in writing be at liberty to transfer the Shares to any person not being a Member but capable of being a Member under these Articles on a bona fide sale at any price not being less than the Prescribed Price but in that event the Directors may , in their absolute discretion , decline to register any such transfer of any Share and shall not be required or bound to state the reason for any refusal . |
| 28 | But it 's not for sale at any price — it 's more than a hundred years old , and was snapped up for a thousand pounds at auction . |
| 29 | You wo n't , as far as we 're having to buy coal at that price . |
| 30 | Other writers have complained , particularly in discrimination cases , that conciliation officers are too willing to encourage settlement at any price and fail to provide the support an unrepresented applicant may need against the relatively advantaged position of the employer ( Gregory , 1987 ) . |