Example sentences of "cost of [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | SIFT money is then allocated in proportion to the direct costs of teaching in each unit . |
| 2 | Pensions are usually compared by converting the annual pension paid to an average earner into ecu , using ‘ purchasing power parity ’ to accommodate for the various costs of living in each country . |
| 3 | Merrill Lynch 's 1985 survey of relocation policies found that 96 per cent of the ‘ 303 Times Top 1000 companies ’ interviewed compensated their employees for the costs of living in temporary accommodation , with 78 per cent compensating for hotel and/or rented accommodation for a fixed period , generally for up to three months . |
| 4 | It is true , as the hon. Member for Torbay ( Mr. Allason ) said , that single-person households face difficulties with meeting some of their costs of living from their income . |
| 5 | Costs of adjusting to inflation |
| 6 | Competition is relatively strong in UK corporate banking and would suggest reasonable costs of borrowing vis-a-vis the risks taken on . |
| 7 | BASF blamed the high costs of restructuring for a 16 per cent fall in pre-tax profits for the first nine months of 1991 , from DM 2336m ( £1 = DM2.85 ) to DM 1962m . |
| 8 | Costs of switching to coal , the need for expensive handling facilities , the expense of pollution controls and storage problems are all limiting factors . |
| 9 | exchange rate policy when there exist indivisibilities or set up costs of switching between different industries in the presence of a non-permanent supply of North Sea Oil . |
| 10 | a paying in defendant can be ordered to pay the cost of not only the plaintiff but also the costs of co-defendants and the plaintiffs costs of proceeding against the co-defendants . |
| 11 | The increase in costs of prescribing including training will be £107 million over 10 years , but the overall benefit including time saved by nurses who will work more efficiently is estimated at £ 47.5 million , Mr West said . |
| 12 | The costs of staying in the market are high . |
| 13 | While cigarette tax is rich source of revenue to the Treasury , the costs of smoking to the economy include not only the expense of treating diseases caused by smoking , but also other costs such as working days lost and social security payments . |
| 14 | The Costs of Smoking to Industry |
| 15 | The rest is to cover the costs of moving to the £46m centralised home shopping warehouse at Listerhills , Bradford . |
| 16 | The major causes of geographical immobility include social ties and a reluctance to move away from family and friends ; indeed , the problems and costs of moving to a new location may be prohibitive for many people . |
| 17 | It is also planned to introduce a scheme to provide grants to meet the costs of moving to alternative accomodation . |
| 18 | If the Tiebout mechanism is relevant , then there should be some effect of the costs of moving on the pattern of preferences ; that is , when there are many localities it is easy for individuals to move to the one they most prefer , and hence there should be a greater homogeneity of preferences within those localities . |
| 19 | The costs of moving from XPG3 to XPG4 at the kernel level is put at around $5m . |
| 20 | There are plans to follow up with further information on truancy rates , costs of schooling per pupil and the destinations of school leavers . |
| 21 | There is some evidence to suggest that the high costs of operating in the south and south east , and the growing skill shortage problem , are beginning to influence location decisions but the region seems set to retain its leading position for some time to come . |
| 22 | ‘ Looking to the longer term , I believe these reforms will significantly encourage the development of larger discoveries , such as West of Shetland , where a higher rate of return is necessary to balance the increased risk and costs of operating in a more demanding deep-water environment . ’ |
| 23 | Farmers wo n't even bother to harvest it , right , simply because , the bulk of it , the total production costs , will be labour , will be the labour costs of harvesting , and if they ca n't cover those labour costs of harvesting by selling their produce , which they wo n't be able to if there 's been a bumper harvest because prices are very low , they 'll just leave the things rotting on the trees and er , that is , that is what , what happens quite regularly in horticultural markets which tend not to be markets that are supported through the Common Agricultural Policy . |
| 24 | On 20 July , the generally anti-government Guardian reported that ‘ scientists at water authorities have been threatened with criminal proceedings if they talk about the costs of dealing with nitrate pollution . ’ |
| 25 | Mr Ken Hipwood of Anglian Water said that the costs of dealing with the nitrate problem had been calculated but they were being kept secret . ’ |
| 26 | According to the ‘ polluter pays ’ principle , the costs of dealing with pollution should be borne by the people who create it . |
| 27 | As well as the extreme distress and loss of life this condition can cause , the hospital costs of dealing with the fractures are some £160 million a year , and a fifth of orthopaedic beds are occupied by such cases . |
| 28 | It is alleged that those cuts are occasioned by the additional costs of dealing with terrorism . |
| 29 | Effects ( a ) would result from reductions in the cost of frontier formalities , that is delays at frontiers and administration costs of dealing with customs forms . |
| 30 | As we noted in Chapter 10 , oligopolists have an incentive to carry out socially unproductive advertising in order to make it harder for new entrants to meet the fixed costs of breaking into the industry , thereby leaving more of the market and the profit for existing firms . |