Example sentences of "but at [art] cost " in BNC.
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| 1 | The markets will provide this money , but at a cost . |
| 2 | But at a cost . |
| 3 | They said they could do the same cake but at a cost of £103 , ’ she said . |
| 4 | A US$145,00,000 surplus was achieved on the $2,070 million 1990 budget , but at a cost to foreign creditors who had not received payment on their loans since 1987 . |
| 5 | I do n't believe that 's because people are being treated better , or more people are being treated better , but at a cost of eighty million pound , there are four thousand more managers or accountants , people brought in from business , people who will do business , people who will sort out privatisation . |
| 6 | I do n't believe that 's because people are being treated better , or more people are being treated better , but at a cost of eighty million pound , there are four thousand more managers or accountants , people brought in |
| 7 | That raid was probably foiled , but at a cost ; a damaged business , a damaged police car and an injured officer , who was lucky to escape more serious harm . |
| 8 | It 's certainly convenient … but at a cost . |
| 9 | The 1996 Challenge is again open to amateurs , with or without sailing experience — but at a cost of almost £19,000 apiece . |
| 10 | It propelled capitalism up the longest and steepest economic incline in history , but at a cost . |
| 11 | The result would be that killings were classified and labelled in a more refined way , but at the cost of lengthy trials and mounting legal-aid bills . |
| 12 | Closer editing would have improved this but at the cost of time . |
| 13 | Results are obtained but at the cost of personal relationships and the outcomes are not necessarily the optimum possible . |
| 14 | In Paul Guillaume 's gallery a book on African sculpture was selling for fifty francs in 1917 ; it was a book Modigliani would have prized , but at the cost of three days ' subsistence plus one meal , it was out of the question . |
| 15 | She accompanies Lucie and her child to Paris during the Reign of Terror , when Darnay has been imprisoned , and forcibly prevents Madame Defarge from discovering their escape but at the cost of her own hearing ( she is permanently deafened by the accidental firing off of Mme Defarge 's pistol during their struggle ) , TTC i 4 et seq . |
| 16 | This may buy some short-term security , but at the cost of limiting how much of themselves can be revealed and used in relationships with others . |
| 17 | We are regaining that earthly paradise from which we were banished as we grew up , but at the cost of disturbances in our relations to reality , and in increasing pressures of hostility and anxiety ’ |
| 18 | In 1988 the tax was rebased to 1982 , but at the cost of gains being charged thereafter as if they were marginal income . |
| 19 | Multidisciplinary and interagency collaboration might avoid this , but at the cost of greater surveillance by the state and commercial bodies . |
| 20 | In this way basic existential security may be maintained , but at the cost of being less able to desire new attachments to new objects . |
| 21 | Hiding from others may save face , but at the cost of an increased weight of private guilt and doubt . |
| 22 | Secondly , the Soviets ' penchant for canvassing exhaustively for the best and cheapest may succeed in these objectives , but at the cost of enormous delay between the time when applications are approved and machinery actually installed . |
| 23 | Any amount of debt can be sold , but at the cost of driving interest rates uncomfortably high . |
| 24 | The retailer may be cushioned from cut-throat competition from supermarkets but at the cost of their freedom to sell or price as they wish : like small subcontractors , being tied to a dominant parent company may be the cost of insuring against business failure . |
| 25 | At the end of the first year of CCT one study found that local councils had ‘ succeeded in keeping four out of five contracts in-house — but at the cost of substantial job losses among lower paid workers ’ ( The Independent 28. 11.89 : 11 ) . |
| 26 | It enabled them to shrug off EPR , but at the cost , one might think , of refusing to face the issue . |
| 27 | This has been achieved , but at the cost of stifling personal initiative . |
| 28 | Finn had at last wrenched Bothwell free but at the cost of tearing apart his controls ; in a spiky halo of torn wire , Bothwell crumpled to the floor . |
| 29 | Put another way , thoughtful Conservatives recognise that electoral reform would probably secure the right of middle ground in the face of socialist challenge but at the cost of blocking the returning prospect of the chance to implement the hard-right vision . |
| 30 | In the special theory of relativity it is assumed that a single inertial frame can be applied to the whole Universe , but at the cost of neglecting acceleration ! |