Example sentences of "[conj] pay the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Women ( like men ) may be tempted towards the cheapest option ( an APP ) rather than joining a good occupational scheme ( if this is available ) or paying the substantial personal pension contributions additional to the APP likely to be necessary to secure a really adequate personal pension in retirement . |
| 2 | And if they 're not prepared to pl play the game or pay the going rate well then you review it and think how far do I push them on this ? |
| 3 | Hamburger-flipping jobs ( ‘ McJobs ’ ) that pay the minimum wage ( $3.80 an hour in 1990 ) are fine for teenagers , but not for parents trying to support a family . |
| 4 | Coastal erosion , the advance of the sands , had interested him insofar as it had destroyed the estate of a landowner who then chose to relinquish the property rather than pay the requisite taxes . |
| 5 | It 's to lessen the burden on hard-up viewers , but most of you this morning , feel that to pay the existing licence fee is far too much , so I 'd like to hear more views on that please , and also I 'd like to hear from Spurs fans especially , and football fans in general , your memories , your tributes to the late , great Danny Blanchflower . |
| 6 | Leeds , however , did not heed that warning , and paid the ultimate price in the 59th minute , when Rangers ensured their passage to the next phase of the competition . |
| 7 | Let's hear it for the Great British Biopic , based on the sort of real-life story which might have leapt straight from the pages of the tabloids , and which in some cases actually did : Ruth Ellis , who shot her feckless lover and paid the ultimate price , in Dance with a Stranger ; Sid Vicious , the smack-addled punk who stabbed his girlfriend in Sid and Nancy ; Joe Orton , the homosexual playwright whose lover battered him to death with a hammer in Prick Up Your Ears ; Josslyn Hay , twenty-second Earl of Errol , who was shot to death in Kenya , in White Mischief ; Christine Keeler , John Profumo and Stephen Ward in Scandal . |
| 8 | Detectives are working on the theory that he could have arrived home to find his flat in Bisley Court , Darlington , being ransacked and paid the ultimate price . |
| 9 | I trudged along and paid the usual fee to the port collector , then presented myself to a Vadinamian Warden , one of the high officials overseeing the Intelloids that do the real work . |
| 10 | To be admitted to an examination a candidate shall have complied with the conditions laid down in ordinances and regulations and paid the prescribed fees . |
| 11 | The tenant however entered into possession and paid the yearly rent of £30 reserved by the agreement . |
| 12 | It was nearly two in the afternoon when , having watched the changing of the Guard at the Amalienborg Palace , admired the copper spire of the old Stock Exchange formed by the twisted tails of four dragons , gazed in appreciation at the magnificent Gefion 's Fountain and paid the customary respects to the statue of the Little Mermaid at the entrance to the harbour , she caught a bus back to the canal district . |
| 13 | In the second case ( Reg. v. Morris ) the defendant had in similar manner switched price labels on goods in a supermarket but was not arrested until after he had passed the check-out point and paid the lesser prices for the goods . |
| 14 | And if he had been away ever since he last turned up in the office , who was dealing with his post , and paying the quarterly bills ? |
| 15 | ‘ You would be the sole owner of the business ; my client would be merely an investor in the scheme , providing sufficient funds for you to purchase your stock-in-trade , and paying the entire rental of the property . |
| 16 | Example 4:3 Index-linked rent : upwards only YIELDING AND PAYING the annual sum of £ … ( " the basic rent " ) payable quarterly in advance on the 25th of March the 24th of June the 29th of September and the 25th of December in each year and in addition such sum payable on each of the above dates in advance ( " the index-linked rent " ) as bears the same proportion to one quarter of the basic rent as is borne by the figure shown in the General Index of Retail Prices ( " the index " ) for the month immediately preceding the months in which payment of any particular instalment of rent is due to the figure ( which is the figure shown in that index for the month of … ) minus one quarter of the basic rent PROVIDED THAT ( 1 ) if after the date of this lease the index is calculated by reference to a different base date or base figure then the index-linked rent shall be calculated as if that change had not taken place ( 2 ) if the index ceases to be published or if for any reason it becomes impossible or impracticable to calculate the index-linked rent then either the landlord or the tenant may by notice require the rent to be thenceforth reviewed at such times and in such manner as may be agreed between them or in default of agreement be determined by a single arbitrator to be appointed by the President for the time being of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors who shall have regard to market practice prevailing at the time of such notice in relation to new lettings of property of the same type as the demised property ( 3 ) in no circumstances shall the total rent payable under this lease be less than the basic rent |
| 17 | Below S * it is worth increasing the tree size and paying the marginal compensation that is less than the marginal benefit . |
| 18 | Labour had called repeatedly for an emergency employment package aimed at providing work , training , assistance with job search and paying the proper rate for the job , he said . |
| 19 | Many people in Solidarity thought the communists should be left to take the tough measures needed to clear up the mess they themselves had created — and pay the electoral price . |
| 20 | Take all your books and pay the necessary amounts into them , at intervals . |
| 21 | To confirm the booking , you will be required to sign the completed Booking Form and pay the appropriate deposit . |
| 22 | He knew nothing about Situationism , and cared even less ; but he suspected that what McLaren wanted to do was force Virgin , just as he had forced EMI and A&M , to drop them — and pay the appropriate price . |
| 23 | If a customer ( importer ) of Albion Bank wishes to make a dollar payment for goods imported from the USA , then Albion Bank ( AB ) will instruct Big Apple Bank ( BAB ) to debit its nostro ( dollar ) account in New York and pay the required sum of dollars to the US exporter . |
| 24 | Very difficult to avoid them and pay the full price for anything . |
| 25 | Off-peak users , with the lower demand curve D 1 D 1 , do not exhaust full capacity and pay the marginal operating cost c exclusive of capacity charges for the marginal plant . |
| 26 | And pay the monstrous debt of pain , |
| 27 | Each sub-contractor holding a certificate will subsequently be assessed for tax and pay the Inland Revenue direct . |
| 28 | They drove into an underground vehicle park where Leila and Cable went off to check them in with security and pay the initial tariff . |
| 29 | ‘ Local children can still come here and pay the low fees , but they will be in separate classes . |
| 30 | But pay the bottom price of £10 for the Latvia match and you will only pay the same again to see the Republic . |