Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] the [adj] price " in BNC.
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| 1 | I now suggest that the new Government should immediately sell the building for the same price so that it can become a seat of learning for talented Scottish children , such as it then produced of every walk of life . |
| 2 | If both the loft ladder and step ladder are ordered at the same time there is a £2 reduction off the total price . |
| 3 | Such amplifiers are made but you could buy a reasonable family car for the same price . |
| 4 | When we could have the maisonette for the same price . |
| 5 | In the previous chapter we have defined this relative price term as the current price in the local market relative to the expected current average price across all markets . |
| 6 | The COB accused Paz Zamora of giving in to United States pressure and reneging on an election promise that crop substitution measures would remain the central strategy to eradicate the growing of coca crops by 60,000 peasant farmers , many of whom were former tin miners made redundant as a result of the collapse of the international price of tin . |
| 7 | ( 1973 ) have also shown that urban containment policies have resulted in higher house prices as a result of the higher price of land , so that there has been a fall in the quality of new first-home , owner-occupier dwellings in town and country . |
| 8 | Let us assume that as a result of the increased prices obtained for consumer goods , there is induced an increase in capacity in Dept . |
| 9 | However , since 1983/84 local government expenditure has fallen slightly as a proportion of GNP and one would question the usefulness of the Retail Price Index as a measure of inflation within local government . |
| 10 | Where the seller instructs the auctioneer to place a reserve price which is not publicised , the auctioneer may still refuse to accept any bid below the reserve price since bids constitute only offers . |
| 11 | Two months later , the growing recognition of the terrible price people were paying for their belief in Hitler — that the ‘ hope of millions ’ had become Germany 's ruin — was reflected in bitter allusions to the Führer 's ‘ mission ’ . |
| 12 | If speculation had been restricted to these traditional fields then the effect on the overall price level would probably have been relatively insignificant , since the feed-through effects to other goods would have been modest . |
| 13 | Of course the effect on the domestic price level will be influenced by the importance of imports in the home economy and by the ability of domestic industry to provide substitutes for the higher-priced imports . |
| 14 | So erm I 'm sending one back to national office saying , these hotels are sending confirmation at the full price for local government conference . |
| 15 | A role for trade unionism which continued to confine its main purpose to the sale of labour at the best price it could get for it was bound to prompt unions first to seek and then to exploit a monopoly of it ; bound to make incongruent two prime objectives — full employment and a stable currency ; and bound to present Government with reasons of national interest or excuses of ideology for intervening . |
| 16 | The phenomenon is vividly described by a former chairman of the British Prices and Incomes Board : |
| 17 | We have yet to make a balanced assessment of the real price exacted from humanity for those things which all politicians promise in ever greater abundance . |
| 18 | Though drawings were not part of the dramatic price increases of art during the late 1980s , it does not seem justified to claim that they went untouched by the general downturn of 1991 . |
| 19 | During the war the government took powers over public transport , and when the Grand Junction sought to take advantage of the good prices then being obtained for scrap metal , dismantling and disposal of the lift was forbidden . |
| 20 | Many women met their husbands from work at dinner time and did their weekly shopping , taking advantage of the cheaper prices at the market and some to ensure they got their housekeeping money before their spouses spent their wages on drink . |
| 21 | of it as well , because obviously we could take advantage of the cheaper prices now to do it . |
| 22 | From the UK 's viewpoint , the time was right in 1949 as by then it had the productive capacity to take advantage of the added price competitiveness in dollar markets which devaluation would provide , while needing to rely less heavily on imports from those areas . |
| 23 | In this book , we use the percentage annual rate of change of the Retail Price Index as our measure of the inflation rate . |
| 24 | It was a term of the said haulage contract that payment of the agreed price would be made within 21 days of the last of the nine deliveries . |
| 25 | ( 4 ) If the Company shall within the period limited for acceptance find a Purchaser or Purchasers willing to purchase all the Shares concerned and shall give notice in writing thereof to the Proposing Transferor , he shall be bound , upon payment of the Prescribed Price , to transfer such Shares to the respective Purchasers thereof . |
| 26 | ( 4 ) If the Company shall within the period limited for acceptance find a Purchaser or Purchasers willing to purchase all the Shares concerned and shall give notice in writing thereof to the Proposing Transferor , he shall be bound , upon payment of the Prescribed Price , to transfer such Shares to the respective Purchasers thereof . |
| 27 | The first arises because at stage ( 2 ) delivery of the documents may not necessarily be matched by payment of the full price ; the agreement may have provided for payment by instalments and the seller will then retain a lien on the shares as an unpaid seller . |
| 28 | If the guest took up the booking , the deposit was part payment of the full price . |
| 29 | All the adaptive expectations model says is that farmers supply , right , S T is some function of the expected price right , erm . |
| 30 | The EEC 's Sheepmeat Regime guarantees producers ' income to the level of the Basic Price ( set each year by the EEC ) through payment of an annual premium . |