Example sentences of "[art] price to pay for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The price to pay for being a vessel for divine birth seems to be rather a high one . |
| 2 | The Frenchman 's release was going to be a bitter pill to swallow if it was the price to pay for finding Clarion Call . |
| 3 | The price to pay for picking up the public asset should be respect for the pension rights of the public company employees . |
| 4 | In this opera of ensembles there is , however , a price to pay for such fierce individualization : the beauty of Mozart 's blended vocal writing is sometimes sacrificed , and there is little sense of joint wonderment as each new turn of events is unfolded . |
| 5 | But in terms of Defence and Overseas policy there had been a price to pay for these successes . |
| 6 | What a price to pay for an Imperial whim . |
| 7 | But there was a price to pay for their pleasures . |
| 8 | But what a price to pay for two months of passion ! |
| 9 | ‘ It 's too high a price to pay for the moon , ’ Nan had said . |
| 10 | ‘ But living without women is something we decided had to be done — it 's not too high a price to pay for fame . ’ |
| 11 | The point to bear in mind is that all that glisters is not gold , and there has been a price to pay for all the splendour . |
| 12 | But there is a price to pay for this advantage , in that the effect of insurance is a reduction in the deterrence value of liability . |
| 13 | But there 's a price to pay for not going into the market place . |
| 14 | There would be a price to pay for this abandonment . |
| 15 | Unfortunately , there is a price to pay for everything and , under this Government , that price is measured by what we call the poll tax and will soon no doubt be measured by the council tax . |
| 16 | She even sold her house in Germany to pay for it , and while she 's happy to stretch this little two seater to the limit in practice , lasting damage to the Bar-Belle Bomber would be too high a price to pay for victory … |
| 17 | ‘ There is always a price to pay for international duty , ’ said United manager Alec Ferguson . |
| 18 | But because exploration costs represent barely a fifth the total North Sea spending of about £10 billion , this may not be considered too heavy a price to pay for an attempt to switch activity towards developing some of the finds already made or maximising the returns from fields already in production . |
| 19 | David Howell , chairman of the Commons Foreign Affairs Select Committee , said China would recognise that ‘ destabilising and smashing Hong Kong is far too high a price to pay for China 's hopes in the modern world . ’ |
| 20 | There 's a price to pay for everything . |