Example sentences of "cost [prep] [verb] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a consequence , valuing the inputs at their true factor prices indicates higher costs of producing that output ( dashed isocost line ) than need be . |
| 2 | They occur because information is costless to transmit , and the public policy problem that they create involves trading-off the full disclosure of new information ( which is optimal whenever the marginal costs of information transmission are zero ) with the need to preserve incentives to generate it ( i.e. to cover the costs of producing that information ) . |
| 3 | Digital Communications Associates Inc has reported a third quarter net loss of $66.6m after a pre-tax charge of $59.9m from writing off the goodwill in its Pacific Data Products unit and $3.2m from the costs of reorganising that company , and $3.2m from settlement of a class action lawsuit , and a tax credit of $583,000 , against a profit last time of $6.0m on turnover that rose 8.9% at $55.7m ; net loss for the nine months was $58.0m against profit last time of $13.3m on turnover up 9.0% at $104.4m . |
| 4 | The allocation of resources to authorities must be linked not only to social need in terms of the levels of disability locally and the age and social class patterns of handicap and mental disorder , but also to the local costs of delivering that care . |
| 5 | Hence an expenditure tax is a tax on the difference between net income ( gross income minus the costs of securing that income ) and the change in net worth ( net change in the value of liabilities minus the net change in the value of assets ) . |
| 6 | It is then also necessary to estimate the costs of treating that morbidity , something which neither RAWP nor the review attempted . |
| 7 | In this situation , that proportion of the goodwill written off directly to reserves that relates to the estate agency business should be charged to the profit and loss account as part of the costs of closing that activity on the grounds that it is a separate business . |
| 8 | But the difficulty with this approach for the present case is that Woolwich was in reality suffering from no mistake at all , so much so that it was prepared to back its conviction that the revenue was acting ultra vires by risking a very substantial amount of money in legal costs in establishing that fact ; and , since the possibility of distraint by the revenue was very remote , the concept of compulsion would have to be stretched to the utmost to embrace the circumstances of such a case as this . |
| 9 | To the extent that interest rates and yields do fall with an expansion of the money supply , people may well hold larger money balances : after all , the opportunity cost of holding that liquidity ( i.e. the interest sacrificed by not holding bonds , etc. ) has been reduced . |
| 10 | Therefore , it is said , one is looking for the actual cost of providing that benefit for the employee . |
| 11 | And this simply shifts the cost of providing that solution to an investment in the people and not the computer hardware . |
| 12 | In view of my right hon. and learned Friend 's comments about the £5 billion cost of implementing that programme , will he give a categorical assurance that there is no way , in any circumstances , in which the present Government — or any Government if they were acting responsibly — could possibly accept the social charter ? |
| 13 | It was at this point that I gave up any hopes for an aviation career simply because of the increasing high cost of hiring that DH Moth for a few hours every weekend . |
| 14 | Traded options allow investors to enjoy ( or otherwise ) the price movements of the underlying security at a fraction of the cost of buying that security . |
| 15 | Have you any idea of the cost of running that place , compared to the cost of a couple of rooms in a nursing home ? ’ |
| 16 | It would be cheaper for the government to subsidise the employment of widget makers up to the cost of having that person registered unemployed , rather than the company using automated technology . |