Example sentences of "price pay for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We might even feel that any financial loss is a small price to pay for the satisfaction which woodturning brings . |
| 2 | Thors was a small price to pay for the risks that Britain would be running by having American missiles deployed in her crowded islands . |
| 3 | It may be thought that this was a remarkably small price to pay for the opening up of our democratic processes to the public . |
| 4 | This uncertainty seems a small price to pay for the comfort of knowing that at least one of these effects must be a reality . |
| 5 | Surely this is a very reasonable price to pay for the knowledge that if anything falls apart ‘ up there ’ it wo n't be you . |
| 6 | £2.95 is a small price to pay for the world 's greatest mag ! |
| 7 | ‘ It 's too high a price to pay for the moon , ’ Nan had said . |
| 8 | Considered objectively , they were an instrument of torture ; but the discomfort they caused was a small price to pay for the knowledge that Kate had persuaded him to buy them . |
| 9 | This moral variety may seem a high price to pay for the resolution of the problem of holism . |
| 10 | But that 's a small price to pay for the flexibility and ease of use that the Pocket Ethernet provides . |
| 11 | A kind word here and a Christmas turkey there is a small price to pay for the loyalty of one 's employees . |
| 12 | Wolf Cubs plus one middle-ranking author ( he was always ridiculously modest about his talents ) were a trivial price to pay for the survival of an entire breed of fish . |
| 13 | He was n't blocking anything , and at the end of the alley was the street ; he 'd probably pick up a ticket between now and the time of the meeting , but that would be a small price to pay for the convenience of having less than a couple of hundred yards to drag her . |
| 14 | The imposition of a slightly lighter sentence in a few cases would seem to be a small price to pay for the conviction of more guilty offenders . |
| 15 | There has , however , been a very high price to pay for the opportunity offered by this large ‘ home market ’ . |
| 16 | It will take some years to complete that process , but that is a necessary price to pay for the flexibility that the legislation gives us . |
| 17 | In which case it also seems a small price to pay for the next generation of senior managers to be blooded . |
| 18 | The price paid for the acquisition , including a fruit plant near Valencia and a bottling plant in Barcelona , appears high since the businesses being acquired had sales of £29.6m in 1988 and trading profits of £2.2m , implying a p/e on conventional terms of almost 30 . |
| 19 | Second , the price paid for the acquisition must not be excessive . |
| 20 | Since Hume , philosophers of an empiricist turn of mind have tended to suppose that any ‘ knowledge ’ obtained by a priori perception of connections between ideas is trifling and empty of content , and that the price paid for the necessity and certainty of such ‘ knowledge ’ is a loss of information . |
| 21 | Junkies have always accepted constipation as part of the price paid for the ‘ high ’ offered by opiate drugs like heroin . |
| 22 | The low price paid for the site has prompted the European Commission to demand a revaluation , but the Senate ( city government ) is confident that the project will go ahead . |
| 23 | The voices were , in one sense , the price paid for the saeva indignatio that had fired his greatest fiction . |
| 24 | No one knows how big the contribution was and the price paid for the electricity is being kept secret . |
| 25 | Hence , time value is the price paid for the chance that the share price will move sufficiently during the following 5 weeks in order to make the investment profitable . |
| 26 | In the case of net realizable value the tutor can use this as an opportunity to explain that there are costs associated with sale which will mean that this value is lower than the price paid for the tables and chairs . |
| 27 | If the price paid for the business has been calculated on turnover it is important to the purchaser that he benefits from all existing contracts . |
| 28 | Vendors would do well to remember the principle illustrated in Finney Lock Seeds Ltd v Mitchell ( George ) ( Chesterhall ) Ltd [ 1983 ] 1 All ER 108 in that the damages incurred and awarded ( in that case nearly £100,000 ) can be far in excess of the purchase price paid for the assets ( in that case approximately £100 ) if the loss is a consequence of a defective asset . |
| 29 | The purchaser and vendor will need to negotiate how the assumption of debtors and creditors is to be reflected in the price paid for the business . |