1. It's no good spending a small fortune on new IT equipment as it's more cost ________ to hire it.

2. The ________ over the rights and wrongs of this issue has been a never- ending discussion inside parliament.

3. I think you have been overcharged for that work because it's more ________ twice what I had to pay.

4. Although the bank had turned down his application twice, they suddenly had a change of heart and decided to ________ to his request for a loan.

5. There are times when you have to force yourself to improve your performance and that's simply called self-________ .

6. The new company decided not to copy their predecessors but ________ their structure after the latest trends in business.

7. One of the fashionable ways of saying you've been sacked is to say that your company is ________ sizing but you've still lost your job.

8. She told him to stop wasting time by coming up with tried and tested ideas and in this way simply re-inventing the ________ .

9. She is ________ as a possible future first minister.

10. You must increase the sale of this commodity by trying to interest a different age range and by ________ into their society.