Example sentences of "[noun] were paid for " in BNC.

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1 All subjects were paid for their participation in the study .
2 All subjects were paid for their participation .
3 All subjects were paid for their participation .
4 All subjects were paid for their participation .
5 Some such stations were paid for by the nobleman and maintained by him .
6 County cricketers were paid for the summer and only the best were given a reduced wage to see them through the winter .
7 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 .
8 Sinclair Hood ( 1971 , p.125 ) proposes that goods were paid for with an agreed weight of gold or silver .
9 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 .
10 Her lodgings were paid for and she had £50 pocket money a week .
11 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 ?
12 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 .
13 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 ?
14 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 .
15 As panic grew , fantastic prices were paid for coach rides out of the area .
16 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 ) .
17 Many were poisoned or trapped as crop raiders , and if anyone needed an incentive , high prices were paid for skins .
18 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 .
19 British purchases of European manufactures and other products were paid for with cash , with British manufactures , and with overseas produce .
20 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 .
21 By 1959 four-fifths of wheat and nine-tenths of soya bean oil exports were paid for in this way .
22 As he said , two of those motorway crossings were paid for by the taxpayer .
23 If Louis Vuitton were paid for every LV logo in the souks , he could surely buy Marrakech .
24 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 .
25 This was an attractive scheme , not least because both the pupil-teacher and the headmaster or headmistress were paid for their trouble , and was very probably the route which Benjamin James followed .
26 Both of these purchases were paid for immediately .
27 Those shows of identity were paid for by the pennies of miners and the barrier was imposed by the philistine , alien Government who do not know the difference between a work of art and a tin of baked beans .
28 No we did n't buy tyres , no they were tyre mileage rates and erm mileage was the , tyres were paid for on the mileage run .
29 It maybe still the same now , erm because right up to the time I erm retired we , we had on occasions to pay for the residual value of a tyre , perhaps a bus had been in accident and the tyre had suffered damage which it was n't possible to repair it or retread it , perhaps a hole had been pierced through the wall , they scrapped that tyre and we had to pay for the residual value , mind you being in accident we could then claim it off the insurance company but , so right up to the time I retired that 's how tyres were paid for .
30 Travel expenses were paid for a maximum of three months .
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