do
Historic buildings are expensive to maintain, and we have lots of them.
The leaky roof will be expensive to repair.
Solar panels are quite expensive to produce and buy.
Colleges have become increasingly competitive and expensive to run.
These goods are too expensive to ship to the US from Asia.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Expensive & luxurious
champagne
costliness
costly
expense
expensively
extravagance
gold plate
graciousness
grandly
lush
luxuriant
luxurious
luxury
luxury goods
plushly
poshly
poshness
preciousness
premium-rate
ritzy