Example sentences of "have pay [art] [adj] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Egypt has paid a heavy price for its hubris . |
| 2 | The wildlife kingdom has paid a high price for supplying man with food and products ; classic examples of this are whaling , the ivory trade , fur coats , tortoise shell and reptile skins used for handbags and shoes . |
| 3 | There is no doubt she feels that she has paid a high price for her royal life and looks forward to the day when she can spend a weekend in Paris or , as she says , ‘ I can run along a beach without a policeman following me ’ . |
| 4 | This country has paid a high price for that in lost jobs , lost homes and bankrupt businesses because of the effects of the Government 's economic policy . |
| 5 | Peek Plc has paid an undisclosed sum for a 41% stake in Chinese traffic control firm Sichuan Modern Control Systems Engineering Co Ltd , part-owned by the Chinese government . |
| 6 | X/Open said it very much hopes Novell will join its menagerie , but hinted it would have to pay a significant amount for the pleasure . |
| 7 | So whilst many innovative cosmetics will be costly , you do n't always have to pay a high price for high tech beauty buys . |
| 8 | It will affect not only the coal industry but the consumers who will have to pay an ever-increasing price for gas . |
| 9 | Many readers ask the same question , and the fact is you DO have to pay the correct price for goods , even if the shop has mistakenly put a lower price on the label . |
| 10 | ‘ But for SeaCat the Northern Ireland public would still be travelling in mundane vessels and having to pay a hefty price for the privilege . ’ |
| 11 | The peasant , says Lancaster , would thus seem to have paid a high price for protection from foreign invasion and for increasing immunity from epidemics : which probably represented the principal benefits derived from the French occupation . |
| 12 | Officially , he was supposed to have escaped by sliding down bedsheets from an upper window , but the truth is that CNN 's vice president , Ed Turner — no relation to Ted Turner — had to pay a hefty ransom for him . |
| 13 | For instance , there was no prescription charge for diabetes sufferers although people with cystic fibrosis had to pay the full amount for their drugs . |
| 14 | And you 've paid a thousand pound for it , so he 's making all this profit all the time ! |
| 15 | ‘ We 've paid a heavy price for our mistakes this season and I ca n't explain it any other way than to say it 's bad luck . |
| 16 | He had kept his youth and beauty , but he had paid a terrible price for it . |
| 17 | Many Iraqis felt they had paid a heavy price for progress — the country was run by a tightly-knit group of military men who in the name of the Baath ( Resurrection ) Party suppressed all opposition . |
| 18 | Then if there is a half-page or table , we have to pay a whole page for it , which is double the price of a half-page of ordinary type . |
| 19 | Activists throughout the Americas have paid a heavy price for their determination to defend their land and their cultures . |
| 20 | Maybe we Scots and Irish have paid a high price for our long memories , but who in Scotland or Ireland has not some attitude to the Great Hunger , or the Clearances , or just to a vague morass of names , Culloden and Robert the Bruce and Rebel Songs ? |
| 21 | Women have paid a high price for their resistance . |