Example sentences of "price for " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the price for my more materialist attitude , my seeking to occupy the middle ground , between absorption in life and soaring above the cares of the earth . |
| 2 | But its opposition also had a base in the property-owning , rural peasantry , and middle-classes , who had in the nineteenth century paid a heavy price for their liberation from oppression and whose status became rooted in their property , land , and livestock . |
| 3 | It is a film about the outsider in history , identity and assimilation and the price for it . |
| 4 | Not at all — the price was too good — MacDonald 's factor was far too busy agreeing a price for the young folk that he sold to the Carolina merchants . |
| 5 | People will pay a premium price for a premium product , he feels . |
| 6 | It looks as though this may be the price for privatising the water companies that everyone feared . ’ |
| 7 | You can pay up to £20 for similar valves but we are offering the C.K. non-return valve for only £16.95 including VAT and carriage — a small price for such a sensible permanent accessory . |
| 8 | That is not Mr Lawson 's fault , of course , but he has to live with the danger that while the world 's capital markets will duly bridge the gap between Britain 's domestic savings and investment , they will only do so at a lower price for sterling . |
| 9 | The highest price on record for a Picasso is £28.1m which was paid in May for his self-portrait , Yo Picasso , of 1901 ; the highest price for any picture at auction is the £30.9m paid in 1987 for Van Gogh 's Irises . |
| 10 | THE WORLD 'S highest auction price for a work of art , the £30.2m paid for Van Gogh 's Irises , was achieved after the auctioneers , Sotheby 's , had advanced half the money to Alan Bond , the Australian entrepreneur , it was revealed yesterday . |
| 11 | The weekend talks stalled on United 's inability to agree the price for Knighton 's withdrawal from the take-over . |
| 12 | Even if ICI 's presence in the US OTC market with its well-known Mylanta and Mylanta II antacids is relatively modest it can still get a good price for these products . |
| 13 | One non-charity Christmas stamp will be available , at 15p — the most popular price for Christmas cards — featuring four peasants framed by a row of Gothic arches . |
| 14 | Market uncertainty forced Hays , the business services group which is seeking a stock market listing , to revise the launch price for its offer for sale scheduled to take place this month . |
| 15 | Today 's price for run-of-the-mill First World War grips is £7-£15 and for Second World War £3-£8 . |
| 16 | Before Christie 's first sale of Belgian art a year ago , in which a 1930s de Smet of Flemish peasants made £275,000 , the highest auction price for the artist was £18,000 . |
| 17 | the market price for the good will be higher than if no tariffs were imposed , and this will result in lower total market demand for the product . |
| 18 | The building industry , given an open field , competing for purchasers and paying a competitive price for its materials , will automatically be stimulated to invest in developing these modern methods , knowing that the reward of successful enterprise will in due course be reaped . |
| 19 | There is something in the British character which predisposes us to push to the limit , and beyond , the resources of self-deception to create the illusion that we can enjoy incompatible advantages simultaneously and secure a prize without paying the price for it . |
| 20 | Haslam recalls a time when Sir Peter Allen , then the ICI main board director responsible for plastics , predicted at a small dinner party at the ICI guest house at Welwyn Garden City that the market price for polythene would drop from the current 4s a pound to 1s 6d a pound within six months . |
| 21 | He has , however , paid a very high price for living with the politics of localism . |
| 22 | For instance , if an economy grows at 5 per cent per year following a two-year disbursement of a structural adjustment loan , if the international price for the country 's commodity exports has risen by at least 5 per cent in the same period of time , can the loan be regarded as justified ? |
| 23 | They may pay a high price for their few years of glory with injury problems in later life and will probably never enjoy the relative prosperity of their first working years again . |
| 24 | The average selling price for a one-bedroom flat in Manchester was reckoned to be around £11,000 at that time ( in contrast to at least £25,000 in London ) . |
| 25 | ‘ Careful consideration should be given to re-marketing the restaurant by introducing a style of menu that is more appropriate in style , content and price for the identified target markets , ’ Horton says . |
| 26 | Its people now pay a heavy price for the loss of their forests . |
| 27 | Grant that by my prayers and alms , I may give to each continent what it requires : to Africa , a native clergy of black hands lifting your body ; to Asia , a rich harvest from the red blood , seed of her martyrs ; to Oceania , a necklace of islands made into a Rosary for the faith ; to Europe , already so tired , a renewal of youth at the altar of God ; to America , an exchange of the pearl of great price for material riches . |
| 28 | And also we must be prepared to pay a realistic price for their goods — coffee , tea and sugar etc . |
| 29 | Analysts say that Shearson is paying the price for overmanning during the market boom which ended in 1987 . |
| 30 | It will become increasingly clear that Britain is paying a high political price for its refusal to participate in the EMS , not least in the almost immediate reflex reaction against any British proposals to affect the design of a future monetary union . |