Example sentences of "cost [prep] [v-ing] [noun] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the only cattle available were sickly , or when the cost of using cattle was high , human power became more attractive . |
| 2 | There was an especially rapid growth of the textile industry in these towns which happened to be on the coalfield where the cost of transporting fuel was small . |
| 3 | So , for instance , Taylor and Urquhart found that the cost of relegating periodicals was about 13 times cheaper than for monographs . |
| 4 | B. The mine owners found that the cost of pumping water was expensive , particularly when the easiest deposits near the surface had been extracted and the mines had to be sunk deeper . |
| 5 | One reason is that , if each firm were charged the same price or tax for a marginal unit of pollution , then every firm would pollute up to the point at which the marginal cost of reducing pollution was equal to the price of pollution . |
| 6 | The combined cost of playing staff was 28 per cent of total costs , and in 1991 these costs increased by 13 per cent to £6.7 million . |
| 7 | Contemporary reasons for continuing to build large barns included the view that grain was better housed in barns than in ricks and was always a hand to be threshed , while the cost of thatching ricks was avoided and savings were made by avoiding the double-handling generated by moving ricks to the barn for threshing . |