Example sentences of "cost [prep] provide [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Estimation of unit costs is always extremely difficult , particularly when the aim is , quite properly , to assess the basic cost of providing a necessary service , rather than the average discretionary expenditure on all service provision .
2 If the system is totally dependent on the successful operation of a single main processor then the cost of providing a second processor for redundancy should be identified .
3 And an allocation of £800,000 has recently been made towards the cost of providing a 40-bed unit for the elderly at Aberdare general hospital .
4 The revenue has no answer to the anomalies which arise when the cost of providing a loss-making facility means that the average cost basis results in the taxpayer being treated as receiving a sum by way of benefit greater than the cost of buying that benefit on the open market .
5 The grant is now needs based and designed to compensate local authorities for differences in the cost of providing a standard level of service in each area .
6 This detailed investigation revealed that , although in broad terms the earlier proposals were supported , the total number of files held by the departments ( ie approximately 60,000 ) , and the variety of ways in which outposted files were managed and used , would make the cost of providing a sophisticated computer system throughout excessively high , compared to the benefits that could accrue .
7 Lord Mackay of Clashfern LC held , on a construction of section 63 without the aid of reference to the parliamentary material , that the tax-payers were only assessable on the extra cost of providing the in-house benefit , and in reaching this finding regarded it as crucial that , on the facts , as found , the teachers ' sons occupied only surplus places and their right to do so was entirely discretionary .
8 Many were closed , but local authorities began pressing government to permit them to charge and reduce the cost of providing the new nurseries that did continue .
9 The cost of providing the start-up equipment is in the order of £10,000 and Mr Dobbs thinks space is not much of a problem : ‘ There 's usually the village hall or an empty shop . ’
10 The ‘ price ’ Walker meant was the cost of providing the right treatment .
11 The initial conceptual models were developed almost intuitively , based on the idea that , for a College to be self-sufficient , the income received must be at least equal to the cost of providing the further education courses at the required level .
12 Nevertheless , the cost of providing an economic infrastructure was one which seemed to bear heavily upon the people and , as far as the rural communities were concerned , it may be argued that the French occupation brought little positive benefits .
13 These industries have falling long-run average cost curves , as for example in British Telecom , where the cost of transmission lines dwarfs the marginal cost of providing an extra phone call for a user already connected to the system .
14 On the question of cost it is estimated 4 that the cost of providing an efficient workspace is around £12P/m.sq. per annum whereas the same workspace has to generate revenue in the region of £2000 to £4000 per annum .
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