Example sentences of "cost of [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Competition is relatively strong in UK corporate banking and would suggest reasonable costs of borrowing vis-a-vis the risks taken on . |
| 2 | a paying in defendant can be ordered to pay the cost of not only the plaintiff but also the costs of co-defendants and the plaintiffs costs of proceeding against the co-defendants . |
| 3 | The costs of staying in the market are high . |
| 4 | While cigarette tax is rich source of revenue to the Treasury , the costs of smoking to the economy include not only the expense of treating diseases caused by smoking , but also other costs such as working days lost and social security payments . |
| 5 | The rest is to cover the costs of moving to the £46m centralised home shopping warehouse at Listerhills , Bradford . |
| 6 | If the Tiebout mechanism is relevant , then there should be some effect of the costs of moving on the pattern of preferences ; that is , when there are many localities it is easy for individuals to move to the one they most prefer , and hence there should be a greater homogeneity of preferences within those localities . |
| 7 | There is some evidence to suggest that the high costs of operating in the south and south east , and the growing skill shortage problem , are beginning to influence location decisions but the region seems set to retain its leading position for some time to come . |
| 8 | Mr Ken Hipwood of Anglian Water said that the costs of dealing with the nitrate problem had been calculated but they were being kept secret . ’ |
| 9 | As well as the extreme distress and loss of life this condition can cause , the hospital costs of dealing with the fractures are some £160 million a year , and a fifth of orthopaedic beds are occupied by such cases . |
| 10 | As we noted in Chapter 10 , oligopolists have an incentive to carry out socially unproductive advertising in order to make it harder for new entrants to meet the fixed costs of breaking into the industry , thereby leaving more of the market and the profit for existing firms . |
| 11 | On termination , the Seller may exercise any of the following rights , either alone , or in any combination : ( i ) dispose of the goods as it thinks fit ; ( ii ) retain any deposit or part payment made by the Buyer ; ( iii ) recover damages from the Buyer in respect of any losses it suffers as a result of the Buyer 's failure to take delivery , including , but not limited to , the profit it would have made had the buyer performed its obligations , the costs of storage of the goods and the costs of disposing of the goods . |
| 12 | It does not move them that the cost of looking after the hundreds of thousands of Thais who are likely to be infected by 1995 will far exceed that of a few cancelled holidays . |
| 13 | This should represent a fair indemnity to the Claimant i.e. either the value of the property at the time of the loss , taking into account depreciation/wear and tear and the original purchase price or the cost of repairing to the immediate pre-accident condition . |
| 14 | While revenue contributions inevitably increased burdens upon ratepayers , and asset sales produced a ‘ once only ’ financial benefit ( as well as being politically unpalatable to many , notably Labour-controlled , authorities ) this was the perhaps inevitable response of local authorities seeking to free themselves from centrally-imposed borrowing restrictions ( as well as the high cost of borrowing after the mid-1970s ) . |
| 15 | However , in an optimistic assessment following a G-7 Finance Ministers ' meeting on July 15 , the US Treasury Secretary , Nicholas Brady , said that the recent fall in the cost of borrowing in the UK [ see p. 38355 ] and Japan indicated that the aim of lower interest rates was beginning to be achieved . |
| 16 | At Hambro Life Assurance new staff moving from rented property to rented property receive : the cost of moving to the new area and a disturbance allowance at the company 's expense to look for accommodation . |
| 17 | Those moving from rented property who choose to buy property in the new location , receive : the cost of moving to the new area ; a disturbance allowance of one month 's salary plus £150 ; legal and any other fees and the company may provide financial assistance in the form of temporary mortgage facilities . |
| 18 | For new recruits who are selling their old property and are buying a new home , Hambro Life pays : the cost of moving to the new area ; a disturbance allowance of one month 's salary ( half paid when the employee joins the firm , the balance when the sale and purchase are completed ) ; two weekends at the company 's expense to look for accommodation ; estate agents ' , surveyors ' , building society and legal fees , including stamp duty and an allowance of £150 per month towards the cost of accommodation and/or fares for a maximum period of three months . |
| 19 | However , after the event several attempts have been made to estimate the direct cost of participating in the EC . |
| 20 | Hiring by the week is usually a little less than twice the cost of hiring by the day . |
| 21 | Since the average rate at which the foreign debt was raised was probably about 25 dinars , its dinar value in early 1988 was about 50 times as great , approximately the same as the change in the cost of living over the same period . |
| 22 | In the first quarter of 1987 the discount rate was fixed at 61 per cent , but the cost of living for the full year increased by 120 per cent . |
| 23 | over and above the cost of living in the past 12 years . |
| 24 | However , in the long run society should invest if the present value of future benefits exceeds the cost of adding to the capital stock . |
| 25 | The NPV method compares the net present value cost of leasing with the net present value cost of buying . |
| 26 | The Mayor , Coun Trevor Lloyd , yesterday handed over a £400 cheque towards the cost of going to the event in Winchester in June . |
| 27 | By personal charisma and/or alliance with other fonctionnaires with a more direct professional stake in curriculum content and delivery ( especially , inspectors ) , he or she may also and exceptionally become a ‘ curriculum leader ’ in the British sense , but that is achieved at the cost of encroaching upon the formal responsibility of other professionals . |
| 28 | If the Claimant was unable to use his return ticket then the cost of returning to the U.K. would be covered . |
| 29 | The essential point is that real interest rates effectively determine the cost of housing to the homebuyer . |
| 30 | The high cost of housing in the north London area was proving a barrier to the recruitment of people with the rare technical skills it required . |