Example sentences of "up [art] price [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( d ) Taking money from a customer and not ringing up the price on the till : Monaghan [ 1979 ] Crim LR 673 ( CA ) . |
| 2 | ‘ But Sky is a major risk which has grown largely because of the activities of the competition , which have forced up the price of the product infinitely higher than we expected or was necessary . |
| 3 | Just as you can not add up all the prices in a shop to arrive at what it would cost to buy the shop , nor can you add up the price of all a company 's shares to arrive at what the company is worth . |
| 4 | Initially , the system worked well : Federconsorzi used its national clout to bid up the price of farmers ' crops and bargain down the cost of their supplies . |
| 5 | As the British have argued : ‘ Tariffs push up the price of computers , which use semi-conductors , dampening the worldwide competitiveness of Europe 's computer industry ’ . |
| 6 | It means — give up the price of a meal , or even a choc-bar snack , and give the money to SCF , whose life-saving work in Africa is again being targeted . |
| 7 | Ceramic materials may take over the role of cobalt in magnets , a move stimulated by the political upheavals in Zaire in 1978 , which forced up the price of the metal and made many manufacturers look for substitutes . |
| 8 | Then , with a given volume of consumption goods being produced and a relatively stable demand by capitalists for consumer goods , the increased demand in the form of extra wages being paid in Dept 1 , will tend to push up the price of these consumer goods , produced by Dept . |
| 9 | However , if the crisis has been particularly sharp and the depression of sufficient duration then it is more likely that the total of will increase sufficiently to push up the price of consumer goods . |
| 10 | In general the effect of the Commission 's inflated purchasing ability was to drive up the price of land in the borders . |
| 11 | Competition between the Poles and the Commission had driven up the price of land in Pomerania by over 100 per cent by 1900 , so that land the German farmers did not want to farm cost twice as much as farmland anywhere else in Germany . |
| 12 | While catalytic converters may cost the manufacturer around £50 to buy , to fit them requires skilled labour and may well bump up the price of a new car by between £100 and £1000 depending on the model . |
| 13 | While bumping up the price of our shopping bill , this only adds to the general burden of waste disposal ( see Chapter 7 ) . |
| 14 | However , the counties have locked themselves into a zero sum game as the competitive drive for success at the playing level , in the belief and expectation that it is this which will increase and sustain revenues , together with accompanying bonus incentives inexorably bids up the price of labour . |
| 15 | In the next year , one in which bad harvests had pushed up the price of wheat to 119s. 6d. a quarter , the overseers not only paid 1s. per week to Mary , but also found a further 2s. per week for Thomas himself from 26 May until 30 June on account of him having ‘ No work ’ . |
| 16 | Not only did the deal fall through , but the Iranian Revolution , and then the Iran-Iraq War which followed it , drove up the price of oil in the West . |
| 17 | FORD is to put up the price of its K-reg cars by 1.8 per cent later this month . |
| 18 | He had lied to Coleby , and done it convincingly , as part of the negotiations to drive up the price of Number 29 ; he was still capable of taking risks . |
| 19 | By jacking up the price of the cheapest disposal route , a landfill tax makes other options look more attractive . |
| 20 | They attacked specific measures such as tariffs which forced up the price of agricultural machinery . |
| 21 | The Inquisition was an ineffective irritant , slow and erratic in its procedures ; it merely put up the price of books , forcing readers to all sorts of subterfuges in order to consume often out-dated heresies . |
| 22 | He arranged bridging-loans and a mortgage to make up the price of the tall house with the basement into which she had decided he should move as a lodger , abandoning his awful little bed-sit in Chepstow Road . |
| 23 | If a new piece of information arrives which is bullish , traders will immediately bid up the price of futures , so the next trade should fully reflect the new information . |
| 24 | Due to the printing and publishing costs , we 've had to put up the price of your BROWNIE magazine . |
| 25 | I think that the compan companies out there have not made any profits for about five years , and they 're desperate to return to er an even keel , and they are going to force up the price of goods and services as soon humanly possible , and we 'll pick up the bill . |
| 26 | The company had also trimmed £46,000 from its advertising budget , and would be putting up the price of cards from 20p to 25p . |
| 27 | We noted earlier that the immediate effect of increased investment in investment trusts would be to push up the price of their shares without resulting in any extra flow of funds from savers to borrowers . |
| 28 | This July for example the government hiked up the price of milk by over 40 per cent . |
| 29 | A proposal by brewery giants , Guinness , to put up the price of the pint by 2p has been opposed by the Vintners ' Federation of Ireland , which represents 6,000 publicans outside the Dublin area . |
| 30 | The final straw was when the government put up the price of rice yet again . |