Example sentences of "[noun] were pay for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Arsenal were to pay for it . |
| 2 | All subjects were paid for their participation in the study . |
| 3 | All subjects were paid for their participation . |
| 4 | All subjects were paid for their participation . |
| 5 | All subjects were paid for their participation . |
| 6 | Was this the price that these incomers to Orkney were to pay for befriending and attempting to support another family in trouble ? |
| 7 | As a result , robots were paying for themselves within two and a half years ( Thurow , 1984 ) . |
| 8 | Some such stations were paid for by the nobleman and maintained by him . |
| 9 | County cricketers were paid for the summer and only the best were given a reduced wage to see them through the winter . |
| 10 | He had formed what later became the Prince 's Trust while he was in the Navy , and the grants that went out in the early years were paid for , anonymously , out of his naval allowance . |
| 11 | Sinclair Hood ( 1971 , p.125 ) proposes that goods were paid for with an agreed weight of gold or silver . |
| 12 | When Edward I , Langshanks , waged his wars against Wales and Scotland , his armies were paid for by loans from Luccan bankers and when he reneged on the loans , the bankers went bust and Florence became the international financier of the day . |
| 13 | Her lodgings were paid for and she had £50 pocket money a week . |
| 14 | Two months later , the growing recognition of the terrible price people were paying for their belief in Hitler — that the ‘ hope of millions ’ had become Germany 's ruin — was reflected in bitter allusions to the Führer 's ‘ mission ’ . |
| 15 | Only the people were paying for it off of taxes . |
| 16 | Quite a few prominent people were to pay for that series defeat and it must have been a cruel disappointment for Mains that he was among those replaced . |
| 17 | Three main questions were therefore addressed : did non-fundholders reduce their rate of referral outside the boundaries of their local district health authority ? did first wave fundholders reduce their referral rates to NHS outpatient clinics and , if so , which specialties and which patients were affected ? did the proportion of patients referred by fundholders to private clinics increase and how many private referrals were paid for out of the NHS budget ? |
| 18 | Two guineas were paid for the use of the engine and hose , with payment of two shillings for the first hour and one shilling per hour afterwards for firemen , and one shilling for the first hour and six pence afterwards for pumpers . |
| 19 | He had deserved all he got — was that what ministers and teachers were paid for ? to draw up the militia lists and condemn the young men to the barracks and the camps , to swamp fever in the Indies and their legs and arms blown off ? |
| 20 | In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries there was a passion for collecting prehistoric flint implements , and quite high prices were paid for prize specimens ; not perhaps in the same league as the prices paid for Classical sculpture , but quite enough to encourage the fakers . |
| 21 | As panic grew , fantastic prices were paid for coach rides out of the area . |
| 22 | In the price range £100-£1,000 , no less than twenty-one of the twenty-two highest prices were paid for the products of six presses — Kelmscott ( 5 ) , Doves ( 6 ) , Ashendene ( 3 ) , Golden Cockerel ( 2 ) , Shakespeare Head ( 2 ) and Gregynog ( 3 ) . |
| 23 | Many were poisoned or trapped as crop raiders , and if anyone needed an incentive , high prices were paid for skins . |
| 24 | But he thought that the links were bound to become more tenuous when the institutions were paid for from different purses and had different bureaucratic structures . |
| 25 | British purchases of European manufactures and other products were paid for with cash , with British manufactures , and with overseas produce . |
| 26 | These of course were paid for by Theo , Vincent regularly bought copies of the Graphic and London News , tearing out sheets to add to his stock . |
| 27 | By 1959 four-fifths of wheat and nine-tenths of soya bean oil exports were paid for in this way . |
| 28 | As he said , two of those motorway crossings were paid for by the taxpayer . |
| 29 | If Louis Vuitton were paid for every LV logo in the souks , he could surely buy Marrakech . |
| 30 | Acknowledging that it would appear unjust to pay higher allowances out of taxation to the middle classes , she argued that it would only be possible if the higher allowances were paid for by the income groups or occupations which benefitted from them . |