Example sentences of "[be] [adv] paid [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There can be no middle class with even those who are highly paid , they are highly paid members of the working class , they 're not middle class . |
| 2 | These have been driven up , first , by a labour shortage , brought about by the ending of free immigration from China in 1980 , and now by increasing emigration from Hong Kong ; and , second , by the colony 's swift move up-market as manufacturers have relocated low-wage factories to southern China , leaving higher-paid jobs in Hong Kong , where their influence has pulled up wages in what would otherwise be poorly paid jobs . |
| 3 | The largest section of blue-collar workers , those on grade three , are presently paid £215.31 basic plus an attendance supplement of £8.49 . |
| 4 | But unlike the millions of Indians who live in hopeless poverty , England 's highly paid cricketers will have the best accommodation and hospitality available . |
| 5 | But with a cover price of twenty five pounds a copy , it 's well paid work . |
| 6 | The Chairman of British Airways , for example , had received a pay increase of 117 per cent compared with the 6 per cent awarded to the company 's lowest paid workers . |
| 7 | It 's claimed that he was secretly paid commission for awarding work to three firms in Italy , Germany and Norway . |
| 8 | Finally , I was also paid companion and professional flatterer . |
| 9 | According to the excited murmurs of my fellow conferencees , Leonard Nimoy was supposedly paid $3m for this short appearance . |
| 10 | Nauru was never paid $16m or any other compensation by Australia . |