Example sentences of "[verb] at a [adj] price " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the basket of stocks trading at a combined price of £12.70 yesterday , the puts , exercisable at a strike price of £14.09 and initially costing 117p apiece , carried a mid-price of 203p . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , the farmers had to sell at a controlled price and vast sums were retained by Britain , exporting cocoa for dollars . |
| 3 | Other competitors include Audi 's new 80 2.8E V6 and the forthcoming new Volkswagen Passat VR6 , likely to sell at a similar price . |
| 4 | Suppose that a contract to sell at a given price for a specified period is , for whatever reason , advantageous to both buyers and sellers . |
| 5 | If a product fails to sell well , the company may be left with a lot of unwanted stock which it has to sell at a reduced price |
| 6 | From the point of view of the British , Polaris had been secured at a knock-down price . |
| 7 | Then followed the painstaking process of finding materials that would stand up to the tough usage and getting the whole thing done at a reasonable price . |
| 8 | The owners of steelworks would contract with a master craftsman for a particular job to be done at a particular price . |
| 9 | AMPS are preference shares which are entitled to dividends determined in accordance with an auction process in which a panel of investors participate , the shares being transferred at a fixed price to the investor who will accept the lowest dividend . |
| 10 | In each case , all bids are accepted at a common price , either the tender price or the minimum bid price accepted . |
| 11 | But that Triple Crown and Championship of ‘ 85 came at a terrible price . |
| 12 | There was also a note to the effect that a suitable premises , with stock , had been offered at a reasonable price , in a similar location to her present premises . |
| 13 | Microsoft Corp has launched its largest reseller promotional campaign yet , a $7m 60-day programme dubbed ‘ upgrade your world , ’ which it says will reach at about 28m customers : the promotion will include an ‘ unprecedented ’ purchase of US national print and broadcast advertising and direct mail , offering a no-cost version upgrade to each customer that spends a minimum of $350 on Microsoft software between April 1 and May 31 , and is coupled with promotional sale prices of $570 against the usual $750 on Microsoft Office for Windows and users of Excel , Word or PowerPoint can receive an additional $50 rebate from Microsoft until July 15 ; MS-DOS 6 will be offered at a promotional price until May 31 and the upgrade to Windows 3.1 will also be on sale from now until April 30 . |
| 14 | Also available in sheet form , it is offered at a sensible price . |
| 15 | In this way the company is guaranteed that its shares will be sold at a certain price , whatever the prevailing market conditions . |
| 16 | Except in a few cases , where the law states that a product must be sold at a fixed price ( ie all retailers must charge the same price ) , retailers can charge what they like ! |
| 17 | The cost of his travels and his books ( many of which were distributed free or sold at a subsidized price ) was heavy . |
| 18 | The very successful Dexion slotted angle iron appealed to a very broad market ( anyone whose used storage ) yet it was specialised for the job it had to do and sold at a good price . |
| 19 | Invariably such products are sold at a premium price quite unjustified by the cost of their components . |
| 20 | At Exeter , another clothing centre , cheese was seized and sold at a lowered price , while the Cornish miners forced butchers to lower the price of meat , which also happened in Wolverhampton . |
| 21 | In exchange , homesteaders will pay a lower rent or be able to buy at a reduced price . |
| 22 | Converted whisky barrels like these can be bought at a reasonable price in most parts of the country . |
| 23 | But if the tentative claims for attention of deep , albeit hazy , personal beliefs are consistently ignored , clarity has been bought at a high price : damage to integrity and the loss of real satisfaction . |
| 24 | Theory is no substitute for practical experience and this experience is often only bought at a high price . |
| 25 | In the end the partner bought at a knock-down price , without naming himself as the buyer until the offer had been accepted . |
| 26 | Vendors who are selling at a substantial price ( including an element for goodwill ) , which has been agreed between the parties on the basis of certain assumptions made by the purchasers regarding the business , are compensated for any risk that they will be asked to take . |
| 27 | Whatever arrives , but you just do n't know what your going to get , no , it 's flown in er trying to think it comes in four days a week by air , it 's selling at a good price but you do n't know what your going to get and I mean , you could n't , you could n't risk using it somewhere like this , so , it , the chances of selling it . |
| 28 | ( Some would have already recovered the development value of the land by selling at a high price ; others may never have wished to develop their land , and , indeed , might even have bought it for the express purpose of preventing its development . ) |
| 29 | Retail price maintenance still being lawful in the case of books , the publisher might well include the recommended retail price on the cover of the book ( or in an advertisement ) , only to be surprised subsequently to learn that a retailer has been selling at a different price . |
| 30 | Under this system , health care providers are reimbursed at a predetermined price for each defined unit of workload , regardless of the actual cost involved in providing that unit of workload . |