Example sentences of "[verb] to pay for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If people want to pay for perfection that 's fine by me . ’ |
| 2 | Anyway , the speaker added , with a grin , the women are willing cooperators , for they ‘ can not understand why their visitors expect to pay for sex ’ . |
| 3 | The decision to design the lamp and gear separately was made so that consumers did not need to pay for control gear each time they bought a 2D lamp . |
| 4 | In any event , if great prominence came to be given to APR , many people could be misled about the comparative value of competing credit arrangements ; partly because our calculations show that small and sometimes insignificant differences in what the buyer actually has to pay for credit can make for huge and therefore misleadingly imposing differences in APR ; partly because it will tend to make longer-term borrowing look more attractive than shorter-term borrowing even when ( given that the great majority of people prefer to pay off their debts as quickly as possible ) this may not be best for people . |
| 5 | The school has to pay for maintenance of the buildings , rent , rates , heating , lighting , cleaning , caretaking etc. and gets its income from PTA , Lettings , Adult Education . |
| 6 | Many health authorities have been refusing to pay for treatment , arguing that divers should take out decompression insurance . |
| 7 | It accuses the company of imposing American business practices and ignoring ‘ traditional French negotiation ’ in refusing to pay for cost overruns . |
| 8 | There are people prepared to pay for quality . ’ |
| 9 | How many welfare benefits have been cut and how many freezes have been imposed to pay for taxation cuts ? |
| 10 | Labour social security spokesman Donald Dewar said : ‘ Claimants should not be made to pay for Government 's economic incompetence . ’ |
| 11 | Acute peasant disappointment at being made to pay for land they considered their own led to widespread and in places violent protest between March and May 1861 . |
| 12 | Pensioners and law abiding citizens are being made to pay for council work that never gets done , poor street lighting that never gets fixed , empty houses being left to vandals , cemeteries neglected . |
| 13 | No member of the family has to give up work before the allowance can be claimed and this extra income can sometimes enable a caring daughter to continue in her job if it is used to pay for help at home . |
| 14 | The Corporation will indemnify any person using any motor car in respect of which indemnity is provided under this Policy against liability under the Road Traffic Acts to pay for emergency treatment of injuries caused by or arising out of the use of such car in any territory to which any of such Acts applies . |
| 15 | They was only , they 'd either got to pay for accommodation at a lodging house or go to the workhouse , they called them then , which is the casual ward , and at the casual ward they were required to bath on admission , which a lot of them did n't like , they were compelled to do certain work . |
| 16 | Andrew Hemmings who manages an alcohol recovery project in Manchester for Turning Point , said people had lost heart and started to drink again because of delays in establishing whether the local authority was going to pay for treatment . |
| 17 | I would like to know if anyone else has had to pay for shore dives as I am told this is an illegal practice . |
| 18 | If taxes are needed to pay for government spending , why do we need government spending in the first place ? |
| 19 | BR says the increases — ranging from three to nearly nine percent — are needed to pay for service improvements . |
| 20 | The raiders also made off with more than £700 in cash collected to pay for summer outings . |
| 21 | Two weeks ago thieves broke into the building and stole the karaoke machine , and more than £700 in cash collected to pay for summer outings . |
| 22 | I used to turn tricks to pay for dope . |
| 23 | If I , a British citizen , fall ill in the United States I will have to pay for treatment . |
| 24 | The price that an institution ( or a whole country ) might have to pay for success in reversing a particular state of dependency might in the long run not be worth paying . |
| 25 | But whilst some women drivers on the M4 today are concerned about their personal safety , they do n't agree that they should have to pay for protection . |
| 26 | You do n't have to pay for parking or petrol and it 's much quicker than walking . |
| 27 | The individual golfer will not have to pay for apollo Week . |
| 28 | However , Ybarra claims SunPics ' reluctance had more to do with the fact that henceforth it will have to pay for Adobe imaging technologies like PostScript and display Postscript . |
| 29 | For some jobs you will have to pay for advertising . |
| 30 | We will insure you for all sums which you may have to pay for death of , or injury to , other people or damage to their property , as a result of any accident involving any vehicle which your certificate of motor insurance4 allows you to drive or use . |