Example sentences of "value for " in BNC.

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1 WHAT constitutes value for money when it comes to food and drink ?
2 Perhaps we 're not so bothered about value for money after all .
3 Motability was set up with government backing in 1977 with the aim of helping disabled people to use their mobility allowances to achieve greater value for money .
4 Moreover , he had added to his possessions a piece of luggage of inestimable value for now - and for the next 30 or so years : his Olivetti 22 portable typewriter , which he had bought in London for £40 , no small investment for those days .
5 These obviously have considerable clinical value for localizing and identifying areas of brain abnormality , but they also enable areas of activity in the normally functioning brain to be pictured .
6 Seles was tremendous value for her win .
7 The review focusses on management structures , budgets and monitoring their use , securing value for money , and directing money to those hospitals which treat most patients .
8 The authors of the report , John Spicer and Philip Morrisey , say the result is that customers perceive beer prices as rising continuously , Beer is no longer considered good value for money .
9 Nicholson 's customers are not price sensitive explains Tony , although he stresses that this is different to not expecting value for money .
10 Their value for the reader lies in enlarging or changing our perceptions , in helping us to break out from a deadening routine ; in short , the carnivalesque : ‘ The prophets of extremity put up a distorting mirror against our world — but one which properly attended to , can tell us something about that world , and about the possibilities of changing it , or changing ourselves . ’
11 Only a fraction is PCB-contaminated material : the bulk of the load must be wastes with a higher calorific value for the incinerator to work .
12 Value for money is a primary aim .
13 But , within the context of the priceless heritage and history of the palaces , value for money is a concept which can not be satisfactorily turned into a numerical equation .
14 It is only within the last decade that the concepts of service , growth , competitiveness and value for money have begun to feature on accountants ' list of priorities .
15 In two and a half pages there were seven references to efficiency , five to value for money , four to economies and two each to savings and cost effectiveness .
16 And so if one of my colleagues sets out on a reform designed to get better value for money and a more effective health service , I 'm going to support him .
17 In 1986 a law was passed that required donations to be valued at cost rather than an invented ‘ appreciated ’ value for tax purposes — though only in cases where the deductions would reduce the donor 's tax bill to zero .
18 A good product , value for money , the right ambience , customer care and staff involvement .
19 The BERI value for each country is assessed by giving the country a score for each factor and applying the factor weighting , so that index values could in theory range from 0 ( 0 O 25 ) to 100 ( 4 O 25 ) .
20 The bike gave good all around performance and at £250 is excellent value for money .
21 All are kept under constant review to ensure that Service personnel ( and the taxpayer ) get the best value for money .
22 Over this time we have continuously expanded and developed our range , with the highest priority always placed on value for money and customer care .
23 Somehow or other , a competitive market value for land for development must be restored .
24 The Thatcher government , like Mr Heath 's in 1970 , promised to review existing policies to get greater value for money , eliminate fraud , and reduce waste .
25 The review abolished local authority representation in health service bodies , gave a greater role to the Audit Commission to ensure value for money , gave doctors budgets and linked a greater share of their salaries to the number of patients treated , and held out the possibility of hospitals ‘ opting out ’ and becoming self-governing .
26 But these largely managerial changes hardly amounted to a fundamental review ; rather they were concerned to promote competition and value for money .
27 As with education these interventions and the reduction in the role of producers and local government spokesmen have usually been made in the name of promoting value for money and increasing choice for consumers .
28 The new emphasis is on management skills and giving value for money .
29 The speeches of ministers have reiterated the themes that it is not the job of government to solve as many problems as previously , that ministers should be more attentive to the interests of taxpayers when spending public money , that ‘ real ’ jobs will be created and sustained not by government subsidy but by workers making goods which people will buy , that the criterion of ‘ value for money ’ be applied to public-sector activities , and that the private sector should be encouraged because it creates the wealth which the public sector requires .
30 Similarly , sustained government rhetoric about getting value for money from programmes and protecting the interest of taxpayers will probably leave a mark .
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