Example sentences of "[noun sg] pick up the bill " in BNC.
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| 1 | HOLLYWOOD heart-throb Tom Cruise picked up the bill for a group of students he saw trying to impress their girlfriends . |
| 2 | I objected in Committee and in the House tonight to his implication — it was not stated in so many words — that the £780 million would be paid locally by the other people in the area picking up the bill for the single-person households . |
| 3 | Nor , more modestly , does it provide any reason why the Treasury , responsible for the ultimate public obligation to pick up the bill for public bodies which can not be allowed to default , should exercise a prudential interest in its performance . |
| 4 | The risk theory , therefore , requires an important value judgment in relation to any particular governmental activity : if that activity inflicts loss on private individuals , should those individuals be expected to bear it or should the government pick up the bill ? |
| 5 | In other words , limited liability is an incentive for management to play for high stakes and allow the general public to pick up the bill . |
| 6 | For example , the hospital treatments that GPs can purchase were limited to standard relatively inexpensive procedures which the GP could easily diagnose and cost ; the costs a practice would bear for any one patient were limited to a maximum of £5,000 ( after this the DHA picks up the bill ) , and finally entry to the scheme was limited to large , well-managed practices . |