Example sentences of "it be an expensive [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm but it 's an expensive system to install . |
| 2 | But it 's an expensive drug and it has unpleasant side effects . |
| 3 | It 's an expensive wood and not that easy to work , but the beautiful flaming and the rich pale brown colour makes it worth the trouble . |
| 4 | One directly concerned cost : ‘ It 's an expensive way of buying ’ . |
| 5 | The attitude directly involving costliness — ‘ It 's an expensive way of buying ’ — was one of the labels which people most often applied to various types of credit . |
| 6 | To me it 's an expensive way of being uncomfortable . |
| 7 | Yeah , it 's an expensive way of of doing it anyway |
| 8 | It needs to be about half a millimetre thick to absorb the whole solar spectrum and , since it 's an expensive material , silicon-based solar cells are comparatively expensive to make . |
| 9 | And at £350–500 a week in a ski resort it 's an expensive learning curve , not to mention frustrating as a chunk of the week has been eaten up before you 've even got going . |
| 10 | It 's an expensive place , ’ she said rather defiantly . |
| 11 | Disadvantages : It 's an expensive option ( Judy 's client 's pay an annual membership fee of £35 or a one-off fee of £6 , plus an hourly rate of between £2.90–£3.75 per hour ) ; you 'll be leaving your children with a stranger . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's an expensive malt whisky . ’ |
| 13 | It 's an expensive Christmas present , but worth it to keep the kids quiet on long plane , train and car journeys . |
| 14 | It 's an expensive business having so many children … the weekly shopping list includes a hundred and twenty five pounds of potatoes , twenty one loaves of bread and seventy pints of milk . |
| 15 | It is an expensive exercise but one that many of our customers and prospective customers expect us to undertake , even though they may not fully understand its limitations . |
| 16 | It is an expensive issue , though , 82 minutes of music spread over two full-price CDs . |
| 17 | In any surveying practice , labour is the key issue and since it is an expensive commodity it must be used to the highest level of productivity . |
| 18 | But it was an expensive raincoat , because one of its buttons is a small radio transmitter . |
| 19 | Altogether it was an expensive holiday for which he crossed to Le Havre on 8 August . |
| 20 | ‘ It was an expensive book too , though fortunately I had n't spent any money on it . |
| 21 | Up to that time much of the flight recorder work had been handled under contract by a private company specialising in data processing under the supervision of our specialist , but it was an expensive arrangement and I felt the activity should be completely under our own control . |