Example sentences of "[adv] pay [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Top-up orders indicate the restaurant is going to have to make do with existing equipment until trade picks up enough to pay for a complete replacement . |
| 2 | The original grant of £500 p.a. ( then enough to pay for a part-time secretary ) has been steadily increased to a sum of £20,140 p.a. in 1988 . |
| 3 | Newsagent Jeff McKenna who runs a shop in Murray Street , Hartlepool , wants local traders and residents to club together to pay for a policeman to patrol their area exclusively . |
| 4 | ‘ A deferred rate mortgage is one where the mortgage is charged all the time at the normal APR , but the consumer only pays at a reduced rate during the early years , ’ Mr Ellis explained . |
| 5 | So if you complain about your council tax , do n't , students are exempt anyway so that 's alright , if you complain about your council tax do n't because it only pays for a very small fraction of what local authorities spend . |
| 6 | Understandably , despite such possible complexity , the purchaser will not be interested in the legal semantics of how the contracts are to be transferred but will be interested in two main practical concerns : firstly , in receiving the benefit of the contracts in return for performing the burden and secondly , in not paying for a contract if the purchaser can not benefit from it . |
| 7 | In Dekker the employer had tried to argue that the refusal to hire was not on the grounds of pregnancy but on the ground of adverse financial consequences the firm could not pay for a replacement during the period of maternity leave needed by Ms Dekker and as a result the firm would be short-staffed . |
| 8 | Defendants are often very keen to say that they will not pay for a disbursement in respect of a report that they have not seen . |
| 9 | The government already pays for a unit at the Royal Aircraft Establishment , in Farnborough , that uses powerful computers to analyse signals from the satellites . |
| 10 | As George loomed over her , she was planning in her mind when to take the sheets to the launderette , and whether or not to pay for a service wash . |
| 11 | That was the fate of the worker on the Anglo American farm estate Vergelegen , dismissed for asking his employers why he was not paid for a public holiday . |
| 12 | ( There is sometimes instead an indemnity if debts are not paid within a fixed period , under which the seller pays any uncollected amount against assignment of the uncollected debts . |
| 13 | So he headed off demands for a capital levy , knowing it to be unacceptable to his party , but Britain nevertheless paid for a higher proportion of the costs of the war from taxation than the other combatants ; he was also able to launch the Victory Loan of 1917 at an interest rate of only 5 per cent , having a surer sense of the patriotism of potential subscribers than did the Treasury . |
| 14 | ESA has already paid for a launch on Ariane , but it can transfer this money to cover the launch of the Giotto mission to Halley 's comet in 1985 . |
| 15 | Why would a maker fit DR-DOS , when it had already paid for a copy of a Microsoft system ? |
| 16 | Another story — the charming Silford Hall tells of a happy visit which a little boy once paid to a country mansion , and how the kind housekeeper showed him round the picture gallery , and gave him a lovely dinner in the servants ' hall ; Crabbe had himself been that humble little boy . |
| 17 | It is almost always paid to a woman . |
| 18 | It is almost always paid to a woman . |
| 19 | It is almost always paid to a woman . |
| 20 | In a business where fees are usually paid on a success only , rather than an hourly , basis , this may come a bit hard to people who have worked hard for two or three months on a deal only to see it fall at the last hurdle . |
| 21 | Workers are usually paid on a piece-work system and receive no legal or social benefits as they are not applicable to temporary agricultural work . |
| 22 | A dividend is usually paid as a percentage of the consolidated profits of Newco , but a number of points require consideration in determining how " profit " should be interpreted : ( i ) should the dividend be based on pre- or post-tax profits ( ii ) should the calculation of profit take into account any transfer or proposed transfer to reserves or to general provisions ? ( iii ) should profit include pre- or post-extraordinary items ? ( iv ) how should goodwill be treated ? ( v ) should directors ' emoluments in excess of an amount agreed with the investors be added back ? ( vi ) should profit be defined before payment or the provision for payment of dividends ? |
| 23 | That notoriety explains why Simon & Schuster paid $275,000 for the translation rights , the highest sum ever paid for a Japanese book . |
| 24 | The FT was moving premises and sold the building to a Japanese Corporation for £143 million — the highest price ever paid for a City site . |
| 25 | What 's the most you 've ever paid for a fish ? £90 |
| 26 | What 's the most you 've ever paid for a fish ? £50 for a fancy goldfish . |
| 27 | What 's the most you 've ever paid for a fish ? 32p |
| 28 | What 's the most you 've ever paid for a fish ? |
| 29 | What 's the most you 've ever paid for a fish ? |
| 30 | If Chapman had become football 's forgotten man , he was about to put himself , and his new club , in the public eye again , for on 16 March , 1921 Huddersfield bought Stephenson for a fee that was ‘ probably the highest ever paid by a Yorkshire club ’ — £4,000 . |