Example sentences of "bought at [art] cost " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each discovery is bought at a cost , he wrote . |
| 2 | The largest purchase last year was electrical engineer Hawker Siddeley , bought at a cost of £1½ billion . |
| 3 | Six canvas stretchers were to be bought at a cost not exceeding £5 . |
| 4 | Given that snail longevity has to be bought at the cost of some loss in the snail 's reproductive success , the fluke genes are ‘ happy ’ to make the snail pay that cost , since they have no interest in the snail 's reproducing itself . |
| 5 | Specificity and detail are bought at the cost of ease of understanding and speed of completion . |
| 6 | Success for the few who achieved it was often bought at the cost of Korean ties and identity . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | And that support had been bought at the cost of considerably increasing the budget . |
| 10 | Today 's profit has been bought at the cost of tens of thousands of pay-packets . |
| 11 | The trouble with firms is that ‘ team ’ production gains are bought at the cost of opportunities to ‘ shirk ’ . |
| 12 | 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 ’ . |