Example sentences of "on such item " in BNC.
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| 1 | Local authorities , striving to fulfil the UK government 's policy of community care , are facing increasing expenditure on such items as house adaptations , designed to promote continuing self-care and autonomy for the very disabled , among whom elderly people are prominent . |
| 2 | A higher tax rate on such items can be justified it faces consumers with the true costs , private and external , of producing and consuming the product . |
| 3 | Better margins on such items and a less Luddite approach to VAT have helped , but fundamentally it is the trend to one-stop leisure shopping that has spurred the modern book retailer to stock not just stationery , but T-shirts , videos , CDs , cassettes and games and a host of other merchandise . |
| 4 | On Oct. 19 EC Finance Ministers gave their formal approval to an agreement in principle reached in July 1992 to apply a minimum rate of value added tax ( VAT ) of 15 per cent until 1996 plus minimu duty rates on such items as alcohol , tobacco and heating oil [ see pp. 39021-22 ] . |
| 5 | Q6 The added value can not be high on such items . |
| 6 | Reduce expenditure on imported foreign goods , reduce expenditure overseas on such items as defence and foreign aid and attempt to discourage its citizens from travelling overseas to stop money being spent abroad . |