Sentence examples for rather than of cost from inspiring English sources

When professors decide which books to assign, the main consideration, they would say, is quality, not price, so any competition occurs on the basis of features rather than of cost.

Whether or not the resultant uniformity was or still is both pleasing and desirable is certainly open to discussion; but it will be perceived that any argument about architectural standardization must primarily be a question of value, rather than of cost, and it is with values that architectural theory has always been predominantly concerned.

Several health care experts, however, said they believed the company was motivated by a desire to hold down health care costs, rather than because of cost increases under the law.

It was assumed that longer treatment increases the average costs of treatment minus costs of gonadotropins proportionately, rather than costs of any specific procedures; disaggregated cost-of-treatment data were not available.

19 For example, public concern about disease awareness rather than considerations of cost-effectiveness drove recommendations for use of meningococcal vaccine in college students in the United States and other countries.

He said: "The wards will have a special allocation of tickets so that patients who have a series of treatments, and are here on a frequent basis, the ward will provide them with a ticket that will enable them to get out at a cost of £1 - rather than the cost of the number of hours that they've actually been here".

"Customer care is increasingly becoming a point of competitive differentiation, rather than a cost of doing business," said Andrew Cleland, Managing Director of Comcast Ventures in a statement.

Internet retailers habitually inflate their gross margins by putting shipping and handling costs in with marketing expenses rather than cost of goods sold.

So, thanks to high house prices relative to incomes, it is the cost of buying rather than the cost of owning that is the biggest barrier to people buying their first home.

The price of new vaccines, rather than the cost of implementation, has been found to be a major driver of cost-effectiveness [ 50].

Some indices focus on the prices of firms' inputs rather than the cost of consumer goods.