Example sentences of "pay [prep] [adj] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And in its $1.7 billion purchase of Stauffer , another American chemicals firm , in 1987 it did a passable impersonation of Hanson , paying for most of the bid with $1.15 billion of asset sales . |
| 2 | He ended up by paying for most of the house himself and what had once been a modest little farmhouse jumped up several rungs of the architectural and social ladder . |
| 3 | There was not enough food being grown on the farms and the government could not afford to pay for all of the grain it had requisitioned from the farmers . |
| 4 | It is also important to recognise that indirect costs of issue exist in terms of the final issue price being below what the market might have been willing to pay for all of the shares ( and hence the company receiving less funds than it might otherwise have done ) . |
| 5 | I do very little research apart from general reading and looking at guides — to be frank , there 's not enough money involved to pay for extensive on the ground or air research . |
| 6 | Despite the persistence of huge environmental problems , Western donors and lending institutions are financing only projects that give a good return on investment and are expecting Eastern European countries to pay for much of the clean-up themselves . |
| 7 | The transactions demand for money arises because individuals receive their incomes weekly or monthly and yet have to pay for many of the goods and services they buy on a day-to-day basis . |
| 8 | You have to pay for half of the upkeep of the roads . |
| 9 | If you are worried about being unable to pay your next bill , it may help to pay through one of the payment schemes operated by the fuel industries . |
| 10 | The Purnells and their supporters owned land on the proposed route of the canal and were able to delay the construction , as well as ultimately extract the highest price paid for any of the land between the Severn and Stroud . |
| 11 | If you actually look at what we 've paid for some of the players say over the last two or three years , I guess you 're looking at about three hundred and fifty thousand pounds . |
| 12 | The total bill for Bacon 's embalming came to £26 8s. 4d. which , when compared with the £28 4s. 1d. paid in 1596 for the embalming of Henry , Earl of Huntingdon , seems to have been a fairly standard cost . |
| 13 | A satisfactory letter of authority must be produced or fees paid in full at the time of enrolment . |
| 14 | If eligible for an award from an appropriate grant awarding authority or if fees are being paid by an employer , a letter of authority must be produced or fees must be paid in full at the time of enrolment . |
| 15 | The company had to give up the surplus stock it had accumulated at the expense of the public creditors and rescind its claims to be paid in full for the amount it had sold , but the real victims were the public creditors , who had to reconcile themselves to drastic losses in income and capital . |
| 16 | In this case , goods were sold subject to a retention of title clause ( condition 8:1 of the contract ) which provided : Title of each item of goods sold or agreed to be sold shall remain vested in the Company [ ie the sellers ] until the full purchase price and all additional charges relating to that item and all and any other monies for the time being owing by the customer [ ie the buyers ] to the Company shall have been paid in full to the customer ( and all products into which such items held by the customer ) ( and all products into which such items come to be converted or incorporated ) shall be and remain the property of the Company and shall be held by the customer as trustee for the Company but with liberty for the customer to pass title as the Company 's agent on its own account ( but subject to 8.2 below ) bona fide for full value in the normal course of the customer 's trading . |
| 17 | Is the writer seriously suggesting that changing from a system where fees are paid in full by the state to a system where they are paid wholly or partly by the student is likely to be encouraging ? |
| 18 | The donation is to be paid in full by the company over a period of three years . |
| 19 | The simplest method of valuing the business is to agree a fixed price to be paid in full by the purchaser in cash on completion . |
| 20 | In briefing senior managers about appearing on television , for example , attention must be paid to many of the aspects of communication which have been considered in this assignment — the importance of appearance and hair style , the use of non-verbal language , choice of words , tone , pauses and so on : some of the many and complex elements that combine as part of what we call ‘ communication ’ . |
| 21 | What is the present level of grant paid to each of the port authorities in Northern Ireland ? |
| 22 | Costs have to be looked at in two respects , first , the costs which may be ordered to be paid by one of the parties to the other in litigation , and , secondly , the costs which a client is obliged to pay the solicitor . |
| 23 | Relatively little attention has been paid by any of the sources , however , to the early development of the hierarchy , that is , in the period to the death of Suleyman ( 974/1566 ) , a fact which , coupled with the striking , not to say hypnotizing , effect of the later hierarchy , has tended in a variety of ways to mislead writers on subjects connected with the ulema . |