Example sentences of "[noun] pay for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clients pay for the service on a quarterly basis and they know that the air will be kept clean , without any additional expenditure on repairs or maintenance ’ . |
| 2 | Punters pay for the numbers of crosses they mark on a picture of a football match . |
| 3 | On the other hand the person in the street appears doomed to see ever more of the countryside becoming inaccessible , pay higher food prices , and through higher taxes pay for the storage of grain mountains , beef mountains , wine lakes and so on . |
| 4 | One wonders why taxpayers continue to accept a situation that allows schoolchildren to be educated in sub-standard conditions , hospitals to deteriorate , and local authorities to be denied funds to repair damaged roads , when the taxes pay for the subsistence of people forced into idleness who would rather be employed remedying those situations . |
| 5 | I mean the trouble with group selectionistic thinking is you , you completely discount the costs that some people pay for the benefits of others and so oh well , you know everybody benefits from mothers erm having children and sacrificing themselves to their offspring . |
| 6 | First , the Americans pay for the construction and running costs of Sigint stations such as Menwith Hill and Morwenstow , saving GCHQ a lot of money . |
| 7 | Pay-as-you-go means that today s contributors pay for the pension of today 's retired people — on the basis that the next generation will pick up the bill for today 's contributors when they retire . |
| 8 | But the government pays for repairing roads ; other road-users pay for the delays caused by congestion ; society at large pays for air pollution , noise and road accidents . |
| 9 | Few would deny the convenience for shoppers of large numbers of local stores with long opening hours on six and a half days each week , but there is no doubt that consumers pay for the convenience . |