Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] paid [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ottomar de Souza Pinto , a governor of Roraima state , which will lose 45 per cent of its territory to the park , has personally paid bail for the gold-miners jailed under Operation Free Jungle . |
| 2 | Taking the Report as a whole , the Commission has naturally paid attention to the different interests of those involved in the day to day running of the criminal justice system . |
| 3 | The supply of domestic staff in Britain had dwindled after the First World War , when former servants found better paid employment for fewer hours ' work in offices and factories . |
| 4 | Polly Peck raised half of the £560million Del Monte Fresh Fruit purchase cost through its three-for-seven rights issue , but it has just paid £69million for control of Sansui . |
| 5 | The Chairman has already paid tribute to the dedication of the Agency 's staff in achieving these aims . |
| 6 | The fallen arbitrageur has already paid $100million in fines for his offences and faces further costs from angry investors who are suing him , claiming they were cheated by his insider dealing . |
| 7 | This is the net dividend yield because the firm has already paid corporation tax on its earnings . |
| 8 | Lloyd 's has already paid £620 million in the wake of Hurricane Andrew , which ripped through the southern states of the U.S. last August . |
| 9 | In Scotland , a major drive involving the county associations , which included the setting up of regional training squads has already paid dividends with the emergence of teenage players of the calibre of Myra McKinlay and Janice Moodie . |
| 10 | Because it was hard for young refugees to find decently paid jobs ( all else being equal , refugee status was a disqualification in the eyes of most employers ) , they were frequently in debt . |
| 11 | We 'd have a better chance to find reasonably paid jobs in London . |
| 12 | 2 Dowty executives say they were offered well paid jobs on the board of TI , but turned them down . |
| 13 | It describes the present position but draws attention under the heading De-materialisation of Listed Securities to the aims of the TAURUS project which may be achieved shortly after this edition is published and which will change the position markedly so far as concerns fully paid securities of listed companies . |
| 14 | The first is the ‘ poverty trap ’ , well recognized in open employment , whereby those who acquire poorly paid employment lose part or all of their social security ‘ income support ’ benefits . |
| 15 | With the parents we interviewed erm not only did all of them see their own role as being helpers and supporters of their children as being a very important one , but a very very large number of them were doing extra teaching at home or getting even paid tutors in to help with their children . |
| 16 | On the question of job satisfaction making up for low pay relative to other sectors , Serota said he had not found highly paid individuals in the City were markedly unsatisfied in their work . |
| 17 | By 1845 Thomas was clearly more versatile , putting far more time in at the mine , performing better paid tasks such as kibble filling , and waggoning from the Deep Level to the dressing floors . |
| 18 | Protestants who should have known better paid tribute to the Antichrist , the spiritual leader of the disloyal Catholics . |
| 19 | ( And under current legislation , the payout to you will be free of both income tax and capital gains tax , because GRE will have already paid tax on the underlying investment . ) |
| 20 | Having recently paid John Sale/Royal Life Estates their commission of 1.5 per cent on the sale of a cottage , I wrote to their Peebles office drawing attention to Mr Alves 's claim that ‘ estate agents ’ fees are currently 1 per cent , not 1.5 per cent ’ . |
| 21 | As such , by getting involved in this process , people were effectively exploiting themselves , that is , by creating poorly paid jobs , and under-resourced enterprises which offered inadequate training opportunities to those involved . |
| 22 | Even where both spouses do full-time paid work , wives generally do more of the housework , particularly child-care . |
| 23 | Cutting bricks is another fault of Russ , it 's all commonsense actually if you think about it , I mean actually we 've drove round at night looking at people 's walls and things like that and some were absolutely appalling , they 've obviously paid money to have that done , so you , you , you can see it do n't have to be absolutely perfect |
| 24 | Waldheim , a former UN Secretary-General , had been banned from entering the United States , and during his term as President had only paid visits to various Islamic countries ( including Iraq and Iran — see pp. 37759 ; 38309 ) and to the Vatican . |
| 25 | After the statement was read , Mr Justice Davies — also the trial judge in the pamphlet action — said it would have been unfair to Count Tolstoy and Mr Watts if the jury in the action against them had been told that ‘ responsible publishers ’ had already paid money into court and agreed to apologise and withdraw a book containing similar charges as those made in the pamphlet . |
| 26 | Supplicius of Amboise 's refusal to assist Fulk le Réchin in the field , because Fulk 's enemy was Thibaud of Blois to whom Supplicius had also paid homage , proved that the task was not always straightforward.i On the other hand , William the Conqueror was well supported against the royal invasions after 1051 . |
| 27 | In 1711 he was summoned before the parliamentary commissioners for examining and stating the public accounts and testified that he and his predecessor had regularly paid commission on their contracts to the duke of Marlborough , amounting to some £6,000 a year . |
| 28 | For Long Terminals , Sessionals and Tutorials , non-branch members who had previously paid 11s. 0d. now had to pay £1 ; instead of 12s. 6d. branch members had to find £1 4s. 0d . |
| 29 | And not long before leaving England I 'd read a newspaper item revealing that a Gauguin landscape bought by another novelist , Hugh Walpole , in 1924 for £145 would now in the thirties be worth around £6,000 , and that Hermann Goering in Nazi Germany had recently paid Alfred Krupp the armaments boss 10,000 Reichmarks for another of the wayward artist 's pictures . |
| 30 | I had no idea that being in a commercial rock band would be like this , because I 've never paid attention to other commercial rock bands . |