Example sentences of "a price for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not at all — the price was too good — MacDonald 's factor was far too busy agreeing a price for the young folk that he sold to the Carolina merchants . |
| 2 | The food there did n't taste too different and we were spared a cabaret but I reckon £30 is n't too high a price for eating in a beautiful , traditional-style Moroccan room with the well heeled jet set , being served by obsequious waiters in costumes that would put to shame Aladdin 's chorus at the Palladium . |
| 3 | But they can see that there are advantages , worth paying a price for , to an orderly , step-by-step separation , as the federal prime minister , Ante Markovic , reminded everybody recently . |
| 4 | Would one pay too high a price for approval ? |
| 5 | However , it seems unlikely that the British parent did not back Mr Nathan 's proposal , which would have secured a price for Imigran similar to that in Britain . |
| 6 | He made a mistake of two percentage points in a price for steering-boxes for British Leyland before his head cleared . |
| 7 | Doubtless he paid a price for that , too , in the misery that darkened his later life , but if he had not felt that misery he could never have created the works he did . |
| 8 | The arrangement whereby builders in competition with each other were invited to quote a price for which they would carry out all the work indicated on drawings and a specification , and to sign a contract to that effect , was introduced as a standard procedure by Hunt into the Office of Works as a means of controlling expenditure . |
| 9 | ‘ Cost and volume ’ contracts specifying a price for a minimum level of service , with additional cases treated over that minimum to be supplied at agreed prices . |
| 10 | That is , it may be easier to agree a price for a contract for clinical services than to assess cost or cost-effectiveness . |
| 11 | THE BRITISH government has extracted a price for generosity in providing funds for the British Antarctic Survey ( BAS ) . |
| 12 | To achieve this aim , the CAP always guarantees a price for certain types of produce , so that , even if the produce sells at a poor price or is not sold at all , the farmer receives the going rate . |
| 13 | It is likely to come about only as a consequence of a general election yielding a majority for no single party thus putting a minority party favouring change in a strong position to secure it as a price for joining or supporting another minority party in government . |
| 14 | When an animal went missing , the owner visited such a man to arrange a price for the restoration of the animal . |
| 15 | The source added : ‘ There is a price for everything in this world , and the princess 's is very high . ’ |
| 16 | He has paid out nearly £12 million in 14 months , and said : ‘ We will pay a price for anybody , provided we think that price is right . ’ |
| 17 | The standing back approach Someone phones you for a price for a project . |
| 18 | But investors must pay a price for this increased safety — not all of any gains are reflected in the trusts ' performances . |
| 19 | However , West Germany would levy a price for its involvement : the agreement of the Western Allies formally to end their occupation and to give full sovereignty , including control over foreign policy , to the West German state . |
| 20 | ‘ Padded Room : the clerk was instructed to ask the architect to obtain a price for padding the floor of the padded-room in the lunatic block . |
| 21 | Puffer , for instance , suggests that the restricted family life a psychological career demands is too high a price for women to pay , and urges them , instead , to study ‘ borderline subjects ’ , a ‘ fringe of specialist research ’ , or do consulting , criticism , and reviewing ( Furumoto and Scarsborough 1986 : 41 ) . |
| 22 | As a price for his reduction of the rebels , Louis forced from the very reluctant abbot the recognition that in temporal matters he was subject to the decision of the royal court . |
| 23 | The accommodation price is quoted either as a price for the room , or a price per person per room , with meals charged to the guest 's account as they are taken . |
| 24 | Fare-fixing ( two or more airlines fixing a price for a route ) has always been forbidden by the EC , but that has n't stopped it . |
| 25 | This would agree a price for the basic service , with extra money for extraordinary items ( like travel and accommodation in the Gulf ) and additional money for increased amounts of news coverage over and above the norm . |
| 26 | Details of the circumstances at Neill 's emerged only slowly and selectively , but the women apparently exacted a price for their support . |
| 27 | Basically the policy protected farmers by guaranteeing a price for their products and by setting up barriers against imports . |
| 28 | On the other hand , the low prospective profitability could be due to the enterprise becoming trapped in a clearly sub-optimal line of production , i.e. one in which consumers were simply not willing to pay a price for the commodity sufficient to cover its costs of production ( including the opportunity cost of investment funds expressed in the rate of interest charged by the national investment bank ) . |
| 29 | a price for some of them ; and yet , if we |
| 30 | The two parties may agree a price for the land or ask an agent to act on their behalf . |