Adjective complement with noun phrase

• find: Some consumers want to go organic - but they find the costs prohibitive.

Modifies a noun

• cost: The prohibitive costs are likely to fall in tome.

• barrier: With a higher long run energy price and prohibitive barriers to entry consolidation has returned to the sector.

• expense: Given the prohibitive expense of doing so, the M&S contract comes as a breath of fresh air.

• factor: However, the cost of MRI can be a prohibitive factor in already expensive clinical trials.

• price: With the prohibitive prices of Internet access nowadays a lot of people is missing the Internet revolution.

• charge: Digitisation of course readings has been slow to develop due to the often prohibitive permission charges levied by publishers.

Modifying Another Word

• financially: He knew that he wanted to work with asbestos, but the cost of the compulsory training course was proving financially prohibitive.

• often: However, the cost of these devices is often prohibitive to patients.

• too: The time required was too prohibitive to continue this strategy on a larger scale during the Cream Project.

• quite: Julia found the cost of the diet quite prohibitive.

• so: If freight costs between NZ and USA weren't so prohibitive, I would have returned this book to Amazon.

• still: Costs of providing connectivity to homes is still prohibitive, however.

Used with adjective complement

• prove: This could finish off small welfare groups, the cost of a license could prove prohibitive.

• become: The price of fresh produce out of season may simply become prohibitive.

• cost: The labor involved would be cost prohibitive on a boat this age.

• consider: The cost of a vehicular subway, estimated at £ 715,000, was considered prohibitive.

Preposition: in

• cost: Why anyone would subscribe in the first place to these things that are absolutely prohibitive in cost sometimes I do not know.

• term: If I want to buy biodiesel its virtually impossible and prohibitive in terms of cost.

Preposition: for

• company: But the cost of these systems is prohibitive for many smaller companies, who could nevertheless benefit from enterprise-class IT.