Example sentences of "[be] [verb] at a [adj] price " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the point of view of the British , Polaris had been secured at a knock-down price . |
| 2 | In each case , all bids are accepted at a common price , either the tender price or the minimum bid price accepted . |
| 3 | Where an offer is made to shareholders and shares are sold at a higher price than the original offer , the compulsory bid is deemed to be revised , again ensuring that shareholders are treated equally . |
| 4 | Invariably such products are sold at a premium price quite unjustified by the cost of their components . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The owners of steelworks would contract with a master craftsman for a particular job to be done at a particular price . |
| 12 | In this way the company is guaranteed that its shares will be sold at a certain price , whatever the prevailing market conditions . |
| 13 | Out of-date-stock Life-dated products not sold before their expiry date may have to be sold at a lower price ( or even discarded altogether ) . |
| 14 | 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 ! |
| 15 | Converted whisky barrels like these can be bought at a reasonable price in most parts of the country . |
| 16 | A cash alternative may be offered at a lower price than the share offer but such an alternative may be safer if this is likely to happen . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | If therefore the waters of the sea showed no signs of depletion of fish , an increased supply could be produced at a lower price after a time sufficiently long to enable the normal action of economic causes to work itself out . [ … ] |
| 19 | A lunch room for immigrants where food can be served at a low price is desirable . |
| 20 | Once goods had been brought to a European port , they could be re-exported at a higher price to other European countries that had no direct trade across the sea , so a good many of the calculations about trade were concerned with re-exporting goods which had not been processed into an improved form but were simply being sent to a place where they commanded some additional scarcity value . |
| 21 | A sample copy can be obtained at a special price of £2.50 if you mention EE when writing . |
| 22 | You will take away on your course notes , a list of suppliers and an optional materials kit , which can be purchased at a competitive price should you wish to put your new-found skills to further use at home . |
| 23 | Bryan Gould , Labour 's trade and industry spokesman , has said that the industry may be renationalised at a lower price than it is sold for . |
| 24 | Finance can be available from the Housing Corporation , building societies and local authorities , from whom land can also sometimes be acquired at a reasonable price if councils want to dispose of some building land unwanted because of reductions in their own building programmes — perhaps at prices below market value if restrictions on resale are accepted . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Also available in sheet form , it is offered at a sensible price . |
| 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 | That it might be centrally implicated , however , adds to the overall impression that the stimulus to efficiency that that the market undoubtedly , though variably , creates , is achieved at a high price , and might be achievable with fewer side-effects by other means . |
| 29 | This arises because the futures contract is traded at a clean price and does not include accrued interest payments . |
| 30 | Like other Third World countries its quest for World Bank-induced export earnings through cash crops has been purchased at a high price with no apparent significant complementarity in food crops . |