Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] pay for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Karel Van Miert , the Transport Commissioner , is asking member governments to approve a plan which would leave passenger services largely in the hands of state-owned monopolies but open up freight services to competition by permitting private operators to pay for the use of publicly-owned tracks . |
| 2 | It is dangerous for a country to rely on one or two agricultural products to pay for its imports . |
| 3 | To remedy this , the Spanish want the EC 's regional funds to pay for its hospitals and schools . |
| 4 | Some employers pay for this . |
| 5 | High welfare benefits may attract electoral support from the recipients , but the high taxes to pay for them may lead to electoral unpopularity with the wider population ; balancing the two is a difficult political act . |
| 6 | The Fire Brigade Union has requested one and a half weeks pay for each year of service , plus the annual bounty payment . |
| 7 | There are fees for further education courses and charges for school meals ; people pay something towards the cost of home helps and residential care for children or the elderly ; commercial customers pay for refuse collection ; and so on . |
| 8 | The British had insisted that the Masai sell some cattle to pay for schools and clinics and — there was clearly a hint of blackmail — to contribute to the war effort . |
| 9 | So that employees can truly assess the new country , some firms pay for short ‘ look-see ’ visits so that the executive and spouse can judge for themselves , first-hand , as to whether they should accept the transfer . |
| 10 | Even with the advantages of other income sources , studios depend on a few hits to pay for a large number of duds . |
| 11 | But his daughter implies that the high prices paid for work executed after 191 6 may have affected the chronology . |
| 12 | Waiting to earn some francs to pay for some soup and some bread . |
| 13 | On Jan. 11 Italy unblocked up to 10 per cent of frozen Iraqi assets to pay for Italian exports . |
| 14 | Driving lessons on the state : Social services paid for single mother 's classes . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | A particular form of abuse which was greatly resented was the levying of extra taxes to pay for imperial ceremonies — for example the assumption of power by a new sultan — and for the increasing costs of the wars which the empire was forced to fight as its power was challenged by its enemies , notably the Habsburgs during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries . |
| 17 | In August the UN Security Council had authorized the sale of Iraqi oil worth US$1,600 million over six months to pay for urgently needed food and medicines [ see p. 38452 ] . |
| 18 | The project will be funded by the World Bank which is to provide loans totalling $130m over the next four to six years to pay for hardware , software , consultancy and data entry . |
| 19 | The project will be funded by the World Bank which is to provide loans totalling $130m over the next four to six years to pay for hardware , software , consultancy and data entry . |
| 20 | But instead of gaining , we stand to lose such workers to pay for a reorganisation that only Ian Lang ( the Scottish Secretary ) and a few of his supporters want . ’ |
| 21 | Ask for our ‘ Special Offer ’ of six days pay for seven days stay . |
| 22 | In the past two and half years it has risen four times in real terms to pay for the publication of more and more glossy pamphlets such as the parents charter — party political propaganda produced at the taxpayers ' expense . |
| 23 | Apart from those deemed to be in genuine need , the budget required patients to pay for all or part of the cost of their medical treatment . |
| 24 | Thus the aim of a two-part tariff is to use fixed charges to pay for fixed costs and then to levy marginal charges to cover marginal costs . |
| 25 | THE POOL Byatt , a keen swimmer , announced she would use her twenty-thousand-pound winnings to pay for a swimming-pool at her house in France . |
| 26 | They did not yet have the economic means to raise enough hard currencies to pay for their oil and gas imports from the Soviet Union , and most of them were burdened with heavy levels of external debt , also denominated in hard currencies . |
| 27 | If a soft-currency country wants to import something it must earn or borrow one of the hard currencies to pay for it . |
| 28 | Mr Clarke said : ‘ I see no reason why the NHS management should give a higher offer in response to industrial action and then have to close down beds and reduce patient services to pay for it . ’ |
| 29 | Mr Clarke said : ‘ I see no reason why the NHS management should give a higher offer in response to industrial action and then have to close down beds and reduce patient services to pay for it . ’ |
| 30 | Mr Clarke said : ‘ I see no reason why the NHS management should give a higher offer in response to industrial action and then have to close beds and reduce patient services to pay for it . ’ |