Example sentences of "[verb] to pay [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 If X starts to pay a regular sum of money to Y , X may become a periodic tenant .
2 First , even if you are in Italy , expect to pay a high price for Parma ham — anything that seems a real bargain will probably not be true prosciutto crudo .
3 Why do n't the B B C , both radio and television , take advertising , and then we not only would not need to pay an extra twenty quid , we probably would n't need to pay the eighty odd pounds that we 're paying already for a colour television licence .
4 Using equation ( 2 ) , the cost of debt finance can be calculated as follows : The current market value of the firm 's equity finance is £1 million and the firm is expected to pay a perpetual dividend of £120,000 each year ( that is , g=0 ) .
5 Customers of companies joining the scheme would be expected to pay a fixed sum until the fund reaches an appropriate level , and if extra calls were made , further levies might be added .
6 The flying club and bar offers a friendly greeting and place to pay the small landing fee .
7 I repeat , therefore , my opinion that the judge was , as a matter of law , entitled to hold that there was valid consideration to support the agreement under which the defendants promised to pay an additional £10,300 at the rate of £575 per flat .
8 Now I ask you , do you think that a privatized network that has to pay a divided to investors will lead to a better , safer , cleaner , cheaper railway ?
9 The buyer receives a further 100 from the seller who has to pay an equivalent amount as variation margin .
10 Scottish universities now take many students from the Republic of Ireland and Scotland has to pay the full tuition fees for all those students .
11 Suppose that an individual has to put up 100 per cent margin ( i.e. has to pay the full amount of the investment Pf from the start ) but that this can be invested at the riskless rate r .
12 Congress , the woman worker is often low paid , and suffers from the menopause symptom and has to pay the full prescription charges for a treatment of H R T.
13 For all of this , you might well expect to pay a premium price , but with a recommended price of £149 , which is very likely to be discounted to under the £100 mark , DesignWorks lies in the ‘ affordable ’ bracket .
14 But punters say they are no longer prepared to pay the agreed price because the value of the supercars has now crashed through the floor .
15 A more demanding public — hopefully prepared to pay the proper price if horse holidays are to survive — have produced a flexibility in which accommodation matches equestrian standards , and individual needs of riders are increasingly met .
16 He was sentenced to pay a large fine , and to surrender his office to trustees ( one of whom was his own brother-in-law ) , although the intricacies of the case were not settled until at least 1636 .
17 These severe economic conditions were reflected in a small fall in membership and a trebling of the numbers seeking to pay a minimum hardship subscription .
18 Similarly , if buying from another division it should be made to pay a fair price .
19 There were alarming stories from a French colleague who had first been made to pay an exorbitant " import duty " for bringing his film stock into the country — and then , on his eventual departure , three times as much again for " export duty " because , it was argued , exposed film was clearly much more valuable than virgin film .
20 He may have been persuaded to pay a large sum of money ( perhaps hundreds or thousands of pounds ) for the privilege of joining .
21 Any edition of it , in good condition , will suit the collector , who should not be persuaded to pay a high price for it .
22 The second tax considered is an estate ( and gift ) tax , which reduces the amount inherited from to , where , with the proceeds being used to pay a uniform capital grant ( G ) .
23 Suppose first we consider the case where the revenue from the capital tax is used to pay a lump-sum transfer to the older generation ; i.e. .
24 In the two ‘ Bishops ' Wars ’ which followed , Charles was humiliated and in 1640 was obliged to summon the English parliament in order to have funds voted which could be used to pay the invading Scottish army to return home .
25 So if you wan na take them home you 've got to pay a little bit of money
26 And of course if you want to use somewhere like the bowling green for bowls or croquet then you 've got to pay the going rate .
27 So if after five months you started paying it again , you 've got to pay the previous four months ' premiums .
28 If you 're not registered , and want the latest version , you 've got to pay the full whack ( less any discounts the dealer might offer you ) .
29 And I 'm haunted by the fear that we 're going to pay a hefty price for ignoring the claims of Kenny Benjamin and Anderson Cummins .
30 My constituents have had to pay an additional £44.75 per adult because of that incompetence , and that is a disgrace .
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