Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] to pay for " in BNC.
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| 1 | He sold a Holbein masterpiece earlier this year for £10million to pay for the upkeep of his estate . |
| 2 | The trouble is that charity work never ends and the same can be said for the constant need for money to pay for research work , buy new hospital machinery or vehicles for disabled youngsters . |
| 3 | The tax man will get a large slice leaving the rest for contractors to pay for administration and potentially massive profits . |
| 4 | Oil production , the chief earner of money to pay for grain and other imports , is falling sharply . |
| 5 | enrolment rates for primary education are decreasing further from the already low level of 47 per cent in 1986/7 as parents keep their children out of school for lack of money to pay for school books , etc ; and |
| 6 | To sum up , £50 is still a lot of money to pay for a mitre saw . |
| 7 | he 's retired , but he 's , he 's been quite busy with this Festival , but I , I said to him , now what I 'll do is maybe come and you and him and Jane maybe kind of will just sort of have a quick confab sometime just talk about what he wants , and he will be kind of happy to do that with obviously we 'd have to find a drop of money to pay for the tapes , I mean that would n't be huge and expensive . |
| 8 | Then , when word got out that Hurley again had a drawerful of money to pay for information , everybody in Beirut would try to get in on the act , making things up if they had to . |
| 9 | ‘ Five thousand pounds is a lot of money to pay for something you do not exactly know . ’ |
| 10 | We 're talking about hundreds , not thousands here because there are six hundred clubs , so we 're talking , but I think though we , we hope to be able to give significant amounts of money to pay for perhaps safety boats , perhaps instructors , perhaps rescue boat fuel , enough to kick-start these courses off which is important and those forms are going out at the end of the week and when the money 's gone we 'll stop giving the grants out . |
| 11 | One limited the powers of LEAs to pay for places in independent schools , another ( Section 10 ) encouraged the education of handicapped children in ordinary schools ( but see the 1981 Education Act ) . |
| 12 | It has often been suggested that the active self-government practised by the Athenians was only made possible by the existence of slavery , and perhaps also by the existence of empire as a source of revenue to pay for democracy . |
| 13 | Last month we reported that Venice 's churches might have to be closed except during services because of a shortage of funds to pay for custodians . |
| 14 | As a result , we have another ill-thought-out form of taxation to pay for local authorities . |
| 15 | By my judgement as the amendment reflects is that it is n't necessary but if it were I would have no hesitation s whatsoever in increasing the level of taxation to pay for what needs to be paid for . |
| 16 | But for months , Hay had been forcing Bryan to hand over hundreds of pounds to pay for an expensive lifestyle . |
| 17 | Old folk at the Wesley Court centre had collected hundreds of pounds to pay for the sing-a-long machine . |
| 18 | And your can use any number of eurocheques to pay for a particular item or service . |
| 19 | THE Newtown and District Cats Protection League is to raise £120 as a matter of urgency to pay for a specialist incubator to care for tiny kittens being regularly abandoned in the area . |
| 20 | How many times have you faced the glares of your fellow shoppers in supermarkets as you struggle to pack your bags with one hand and write a cheque with the other , or fumble around for cash to pay for your goods . |
| 21 | A MAJOR appeal for cash to pay for renovation work at a volunteer ambulance brigade 's crumbling headquarters is still £7,000 short of its £10,000 target . |
| 22 | About need to pay for daughter 's education . |
| 23 | ‘ My father arranged with Hercule to pay for her training . |
| 24 | Mum was waiting up for us when we got indoors , but before she could speak Mary began telling her about the agreement she had with Albert to pay for the wedding and this took the wind out of her sails . |
| 25 | Yet how many people this Christmas will be going into debt to pay for the festive season ? |
| 26 | No wonder national reports indicate many of the poorest sections are going into debt to pay for food and clothing . |
| 27 | She even sold her house in Germany to pay for it , and while she 's happy to stretch this little two seater to the limit in practice , lasting damage to the Bar-Belle Bomber would be too high a price to pay for victory … |
| 28 | A lot of boat time for a couple of dives , and you 've also got overnight accommodation in Cairns to pay for . |
| 29 | One of the ‘ cattle men ’ turned up one day at Costa Rica 's legitimate airport and had to be rescued by Fernandez : in his cattle-man 's briefcase were $5,000 in cash to pay for workers on the strip , a spare cassette from North for Fernandez 's KL-43 encrypting device , and brown manila envelopes from the White House containing photographs of Fernandez with Reagan . |
| 30 | In the past 10 years Canadians have doubled the amount of money borrowed from banks to pay for consumer goods . |