Example sentences of "[be] [verb] at [adj] cost " in BNC.
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| 1 | The whole room breathed an air of hygienic efficiency : the walls were emulsioned so that they could be repainted at little cost , and the tables stood on plastic tiles which could be quickly wiped and disinfected . |
| 2 | Investments in debt securities , which the company intends and has the ability to keep to maturity , would be reported at amortised cost . |
| 3 | any displacement of outside motion jobs by inside motion versions was regarded as a retrograde step and had to be discouraged at all costs . |
| 4 | The need for trade-offs should be recognized clearly , so as to avoid the implicit assumption that dignity is to be pursued at all costs . [ … ] |
| 5 | intensive approach can be adopted at little cost , as standard stepping motor control programs are available . |
| 6 | All this can be done at minimal cost . |
| 7 | Some believe equally that the institutions are decaying and that this is a part of some general drift towards anarchy which must be prevented at all costs . |
| 8 | They should be prevented at all costs from making records . |
| 9 | They should be prevented at all costs from making records . |
| 10 | A small group of professionals , myself included , selected those books which we believed should be saved at all costs but , although we did this as conscientiously as possible , our combined subject knowledge was at best partial and it is inevitable that some books worthy of preservation were overlooked … |
| 11 | Although it is widely agreed that successful innovations need to couple R&D , manufacturing , and marketing activities to ensure that new products can be manufactured at reasonable cost and are attractive to consumers , it is not completely obvious that this means that all three activities always need to be conducted under the same roof . |
| 12 | But with bitter consequences , for the target they have chosen is the very thing they should be preserving at all costs . |
| 13 | St John the Baptist had to be preserved at all costs . |
| 14 | ‘ The role of SSSI is not to say that the rest of the countryside does n't matter , but show up areas which should be preserved at all costs . ’ |
| 15 | ICI , evidently , was not just a lacklustre chemicals conglomerate , but an industrial symbol , to be preserved at all costs as evidence of Britain 's continuing economic virility . |
| 16 | Land and buildings are to be shown at original cost or subsequent valuation . |
| 17 | Land and buildings are to be shown at original cost or subsequent valuation . |
| 18 | Milk can be produced at lower cost from cows with the highest genetic potential in either low or high feed input systems . |
| 19 | It may be quicker for someone who hears well to reply , particularly when they know the answer and the question is unimportant , but this must be avoided at all cost . |
| 20 | Whilst most recognized the coffin as a means of transporting the dead to an authorized place of disposal , some viewed it as a receptacle for a precious relic — so precious that the very thought of earth or elements contributing to its destruction should be avoided at all cost . |
| 21 | Rigidity of approach is something to be avoided at all costs — there is no point in being able to do a ‘ party piece ’ one way and be unable to take in new direction on the same material . |
| 22 | The new actor is generally operating in top gear and if this momentum is stopped it can be very damaging to the morale and can result in an actor 's technical skills going rusty — something to be avoided at all costs . |
| 23 | Gardeners occasionally regard shade as an evil to be avoided at all costs . |
| 24 | The ‘ good loser syndrome ’ has to be avoided at all costs . |
| 25 | Right from the early 1960s the attitude of local authorities and housing departments has been that ‘ ghettos ’ must be avoided at all costs , and even a handful of Asian families can make an area into a ghetto . |
| 26 | Nevertheless , to be avoided at all costs is turning each day into a ‘ patchwork quilt ’ of conflicting perfumes . |
| 27 | The middle-aged mother , however , who has dependants , a job , a mortgage and a car — all the trappings of the standard nuclear family , but without the visible support of the person normally responsible for such things — is generally treated like a rabid dog , something acknowledged as being in the neighbourhood but to be avoided at all costs . |
| 28 | Over-dependence upon the United States should be avoided at all costs . |
| 29 | The risk is that a show 's technical and business farming content can be eroded in the process , and that must be avoided at all costs . |
| 30 | Although the lights of the pleasure cruisers sparkling from the water make the river look attractive , Baedeker 's advice is forthright : ‘ Bathing in the Rhine should be avoided at all costs . ’ |