Example sentences of "be [verb] [noun] for money " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally , you are looking to see that you are getting value for money , and getting what you are paying for — area of land , size of rooms , and ( dare I say it ? ) good neighbours . |
| 2 | The difficulty with this is that unless there are well-established efficiency measures for the services of the department neither it nor its users will know whether they are getting value for money . |
| 3 | The newspaper was demanding that the public be given a good show for their money : ‘ It is still necessary to ask ourselves whether we are getting value for money . |
| 4 | But customers at present have difficulty in knowing whether they are getting value for money . |
| 5 | She points to the additional 1.9 per cent which is being offered for growth and argues the more explicit guidelines are there to ‘ make sure we are getting value for money ’ . |
| 6 | The specially-adapted unmarked cars will be compared on a day-to-day basis with a marked police car to see if they are giving value for money . |
| 7 | The industry built up a new audience not by giving a social elite privileges but rather by suggesting that anyone who had paid their admission price would be given value for money and in particular would be given films that had been made with care and attention . |
| 8 | Or indeed , if the consequences of that particular policy decision is such that the erm , the revenue considerations were serious and improvable and in which case , you would not be deriving value for money , and I most certainly would have a comment to make . |
| 9 | Make sure you 'll be getting value for money before you decide . |
| 10 | This will act as a yardstick by which industry and local authorities could check they were getting value for money , he said . |
| 11 | And at the end of the day you would be into relating what people do in their job descriptions to whether you were getting value for money from those members of staff . |
| 12 | Members of suitable quality were needed , but members must feel that they were getting value for money . |
| 13 | We were expected to put our hands in our pockets and shell out regardless of whether or not we were getting value for money . |
| 14 | States used them to discover whether schools were giving value for money . |
| 15 | By introducing a per capita tax , it was the government 's aim to draw every adult 's attention to exactly how much their local services were costing and to encourage them to assess whether they were receiving value for money . |
| 16 | The buyers of services are becoming more selective , unconcerned about cosy established relationships and anxious to be convinced that they are receiving value for money : competitiveness and excellence are the watchwords for the future . |
| 17 | According to , there are ways to get clients to feel they are receiving value for money in terms of how the service is delivered : ‘ People are impressed by well-produced documentation and plain English in presentation . |
| 18 | But once the money is disbursed , only anecdotal evidence offers much of a clue whether the city is getting value for money or not . |
| 19 | The board has lodged five complaints with the LEA and is questioning whether it is getting value for money . |
| 20 | But , after the fiasco of Super-SARA , the British are not alone in asking whether the cumbersome bureaucracy and politicking of European Community big-science , is providing value for money . |