11.   The new law will increase building costs.

12.   The new tax will increase the cost of owning a car.

13.   The polyester products maker attributed the forecast to weak world-wide demand that has lowered production volumes and increased manufacturing costs.

14.   Therefore, an increase in, say, sales or property taxes will increase costs and reduce supply.

15.   Increasing the cost of bricks, timber and glass did not do much to lift the housing standards of the poor.

16.   It also tended to increase the cost of land more markedly in this region than elsewhere.

17.   Stage II benefits arise from the removal of technical and regulatory rules which increase the costs of companies.

18.   Changing to some form of European or American insurance system would significantly increase costs.

19.   Reserve requirements on domestic CDs increase the cost of funds to banks.

20.   The government is also considering increasing the cost of landfill disposal as a further means of encouraging recycling.