Example sentences of "[verb] been buy at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Today 's profit has been bought at the cost of tens of thousands of pay-packets . |
2 | The term covers such a wide array of diverse explanations that the survival might have been bought at the cost of radical change to its empirical and normative content . |
3 | The undoubted benefits of the greater mathematical rigour which these models incorporate may have been bought at the cost of a loss of perspective on the world ‘ out there ’ . |
4 | The agreements with the United States had been bought at the cost of disproportionate cuts in Soviet weaponry and were clearly dictated by the need to reduce military spending , a much heavier relative burden for the USSR than for the United States . |
5 | And that support had been bought at the cost of considerably increasing the budget . |
6 | The man 's brown tricorne hat had come from neither the French nor the British army , but had been bought at the market in the Norman town of Caen . |