Example sentences of "cost [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The case cost the loser £10,000 . |
| 2 | If I asked for money from my husband he would talk of all the expenses , of how much it cost the family to keep me . |
| 3 | It cost the members £13,000 and was carried 187:1 ! |
| 4 | They have not provided an analytic background for Bush 's war , nor have they mentioned that the ‘ technically fascinating fireworks ’ over Baghdad cost the US public $2 trillion , and a decade of inner city deprivation . |
| 5 | Burridge cost the Palace £40,000 when he joined the club from Aston Villa , but he became part of the Palace 's best-ever defence , for the 24 League goals conceded in 1978–79 were the lowest for a single season in the club 's history while John 's 21 ‘ clean-sheets ’ that season was also the best-ever by a goalkeeper here . |
| 6 | Find out what the goods cost the retailer |
| 7 | He was n't on UK business and it cost the earth . |
| 8 | He said Mr Gummer had been ‘ out to Mr Lilley 's holiday cottage , and it cost the taxpayer £2,000 for him to fly back when they could fly back for less than £200 apiece ’ . |
| 9 | It cost the original owner £200,000 new . |
| 10 | ( Between 1975 and 1985 , as a nationalised industry , it cost the tax payer over £14 billion at today 's prices . ) |
| 11 | Ireland outside Ulster was intractable , but the lack of a Unionist revival in Scotland and Wales cost the party about thirty seats when compared to 1895 or 1900 . |
| 12 | The headline set the tone : ‘ Sure , It 's the Greatest Show on Earth — But Need It Cost the Earth ? ’ |
| 13 | If a firm is operating in a good , competitive market then , notwithstanding the problems associated with accounting measurements , profit does give an indication of how well it produced goods : the market was willing to pay more for the finished goods than it cost the firm to produce them , if the firm made a profit . |
| 14 | Yes yes er and and the price it cost the er tax payers and rate payers of Nottingham in the first place to put it there yes . |
| 15 | It cost the poor milkman a fortune to get them to pay him up for the milk people said they did n't get , you know ! |
| 16 | That was more or less his way of doing things and it cost a lot . |
| 17 | It cost a fortune . |
| 18 | Back in 1949 it cost a minimum of four shillings for a mention in the In Memoriam section . |
| 19 | It cost a lot and looked lovely , and the BBC has commissioned a sequel . |
| 20 | Okay , so it cost a lot to get him half way across the world , but money does n't mean much if you ca n't use it wisely . ’ |
| 21 | My problem , therefore , would perhaps appear to lie with my speakers , but the G-K cost a fortune so I would be surprised if it were at fault . |
| 22 | Except it cost a bomb … |
| 23 | It cost a fortune . |
| 24 | It cost a simply huge amount . |
| 25 | Many RSC actresses removed their clothes , and it cost a lot less to make than that year 's high-brow smash , Brideshead Revisited . |
| 26 | ‘ When the Institution was founded in 1824 it cost a guinea a year to be a Governor . |
| 27 | She bought it a year ago and recalls that it cost a great deal of money . |
| 28 | It cost a mere eight pounds a week to rent . |
| 29 | It cost a shilling ( 5p ) and its name was Time Out . |
| 30 | Well , some of the racecourse gon na be made like that and it cost a fortune , mind ya . |