Example sentences of "small [noun sg] to pay for [art] " in BNC.

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1 For Chapman , however , Jack was no less of a bargain , the record fee a small price to pay for a player of his class .
2 ‘ A small price to pay for a 600 Wurlitzer . ’
3 A small price to pay for a game of cowboys and indians .
4 We might even feel that any financial loss is a small price to pay for the satisfaction which woodturning brings .
5 Thors was a small price to pay for the risks that Britain would be running by having American missiles deployed in her crowded islands .
6 It may be thought that this was a remarkably small price to pay for the opening up of our democratic processes to the public .
7 This uncertainty seems a small price to pay for the comfort of knowing that at least one of these effects must be a reality .
8 £2.95 is a small price to pay for the world 's greatest mag !
9 Considered objectively , they were an instrument of torture ; but the discomfort they caused was a small price to pay for the knowledge that Kate had persuaded him to buy them .
10 But that 's a small price to pay for the flexibility and ease of use that the Pocket Ethernet provides .
11 A kind word here and a Christmas turkey there is a small price to pay for the loyalty of one 's employees .
12 He was n't blocking anything , and at the end of the alley was the street ; he 'd probably pick up a ticket between now and the time of the meeting , but that would be a small price to pay for the convenience of having less than a couple of hundred yards to drag her .
13 The imposition of a slightly lighter sentence in a few cases would seem to be a small price to pay for the conviction of more guilty offenders .
14 In which case it also seems a small price to pay for the next generation of senior managers to be blooded .
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