Example sentences of "money to a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shooter , described in court as a salesman , was caught after a plain-clothes police officer posed as a courier taking the first of the blackmail money to a pick-up point at Edinburgh Airport . |
| 2 | The bank lent money to a speculator charged with extortion . |
| 3 | She had to submit the control of her ambitions , career and money to a group over her who ‘ shepherded ’ her . |
| 4 | In the 1970s , the WCC launched a programme to combat racism and , as part of that initiative , gave money to a number of African liberation movements . |
| 5 | Under the scheme , a building society would lend money to a housing association at a low interest rate to buy homes , whose former owners would become tenants of the association . |
| 6 | A simple example will make the differences plain : suppose a testator wanted to arrange for the payment of a sum of money to a certain person . |
| 7 | ‘ Because two million dollars is a lot of money to a poor man , ’ suggested Hubert Reed . |
| 8 | But if you lend money to a bank and it becomes insolvent you do . |
| 9 | Is it worth paying the extra money to a company in order to guarantee good quality support and back-up ? |
| 10 | He says that people will nearly always give money to a cripple . |
| 11 | So , instead of leaving it idle , I sold the machine and donated the money to a charity for the disabled , as I had a mentally disabled sister who died when I was 13 . |
| 12 | The producer is a catalyst between account group , creative team and media department who have allocated the client 's money to a particular schedule . |
| 13 | Money was short in the party by 1921 because there had been no proper revival since the war ; members were constantly described as apathetic , and were in no mood to give their time or their money to a party that did not know where it was going . |
| 14 | From Henry James , The Pupil The poor young man hesitated and procrastinated : it cost him such an effort to broach the subject of terms , to speak of money to a person who spoke only of feelings and , as it were , of the aristocracy ( 1 ) . |
| 15 | ‘ It 's worth money to a firm ’ , said a supervisor , ‘ to know when we are coming to sample . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Typically , when lending money to a company , a bank will take as security a charge over all or most of the assets of the company , present and future , the charge being a fixed charge on land and certain other assets , and a floating charge over the remaining assets . |
| 17 | Suppose that a student council was allowed by law to donate money to a political party . |
| 18 | I gave the money to a thankfully dumb-struck fiddle-player on Sauchiehall Street and walked away feeling like some sort of martyred saint . |
| 19 | If you pay good money to a psychiatrist or counsellor for advice you are likely to take it seriously . |
| 20 | The notion of giving money or quasi money to a family to spend in a way they would not otherwise choose to do is very far from the assumptions of a free market in which people spend their own money on something they want . |
| 21 | It seems improbable that donors will be motivated to give time or money to a profit-making hospital or home , on the grounds that it would be difficult to ensure that the patients or residents received the benefit , not the owner . |
| 22 | Eventually she explained that she owed money to a stall-keeper who sold second-hand clothing : she had stupidly borrowed some from him to buy a dress . |
| 23 | He gave a lot of money to a number of hospitals . |
| 24 | That penalty should be paid by the firms which owe money to a smaller business . |
| 25 | The vacancy had been caused by the conviction and imprisonment for three months of the former MP , Wilbert Moss , on charges of offering money to a magistrate to drop a prosecution against a constituent . |
| 26 | It was also discovered that Nomura and Nikko had lent money to a major gangster syndicate and had attempted to boost the value of shares held by the syndicate 's head . |
| 27 | In early September the CIA informed current employees that they would be permitted to contribute money to a legal defence fund , set up the previous month by a group of retired CIA officers to help pay lawyers ' fees for beleaguered colleagues . |
| 28 | Reddy acknowledges objections that rewarded gifting might delay the development of a cadaver transplant programme , but argues that as ‘ the medical , legal , economic , technological , and logistic infrastructure required to set up such a programme in India simply does not exist … is the payment of money to a willing , informed adult , who happens to be poor and needy , so unethical or immoral that it alone determines whether people should be allowed to live or die ? ’ |
| 29 | In Lawrence the appropriation took place because an Italian student handed over extra money to a taxi-driver who had deceived him as to the taxi fare , but Lawrence is not restricted to instances where the accused appropriated by deception . |
| 30 | The Company shall not pay the purchase money to a Defaulting Member until he shall in respect of the shares being the subject of the Compulsory Sale Notice have delivered his share certificates or a suitable indemnity and the necessary transfers to the Company . |