Example sentences of "[adv] pay for 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The government already pays for a unit at the Royal Aircraft Establishment , in Farnborough , that uses powerful computers to analyse signals from the satellites . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Why would a maker fit DR-DOS , when it had already paid for a copy of a Microsoft system ? |
| 14 | That notoriety explains why Simon & Schuster paid $275,000 for the translation rights , the highest sum ever paid for a Japanese book . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | What 's the most you 've ever paid for a fish ? £90 |
| 17 | What 's the most you 've ever paid for a fish ? £50 for a fancy goldfish . |
| 18 | What 's the most you 've ever paid for a fish ? 32p |
| 19 | What 's the most you 've ever paid for a fish ? |
| 20 | What 's the most you 've ever paid for a fish ? |
| 21 | Probably , you will end up paying for a remix . |
| 22 | The Maharajah also paid for a warden 's cottage nearby ; a tiny octagonal building with just 3 rooms . |
| 23 | At the moment we are also paying for a specialist company to provide address labels in postcode order ( to quality for Presstream ) because until a few weeks ago the National Office computer could not do this task . |
| 24 | In essence , Labour is proposing the Swedish model in which the state controls the economy — rather than owning it — and taxes it ferociously to pay for a ballooning public sector . |
| 25 | It is the price the arts must inevitably pay for a higher political profile . |
| 26 | ‘ We simply paid for a month 's advertising which has not run out . ’ |
| 27 | Honesty does n't pay for a bride |
| 28 | I have n't paid for a ‘ phone call in years . |
| 29 | The terms and conditions also address such grey areas such as what happens if the buyer has possession of a work , but has not completely paid for it when it is stolen ( the liability is the buyer 's ) , and the duty of such a buyer who has partially paid for a work , to store the work separately from his own goods , not to export it , to retain the seller 's identifying marks , and to allow the seller or his agent access to the work . |
| 30 | The nursery is £35 a week cheaper then paying for a nanny . |