Example sentences of "[prep] pay [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had General Francis not had his two sticks propped against his chair as a tangible reminder of his condition , and had he not , as had now been explained to me , been making this social call to thank me for nursing his son after paying a second professional visit himself to Bernard Remington-Hart , his appearance and that Rolls outside would have frozen Margaret into a prissy caricature of her normal self . |
| 2 | The Leander class frigate headed for Portsmouth to be decommissioned after paying a final farewell to Teesside . |
| 3 | Who broke into your house in the middle of the night and , after paying the usual compliments to your stereo , got on with the job of pouring scorn on your most cherished convictions ? |
| 4 | She ca n't afford to buy records and books , she can no longer afford the rent on her black-and-white TV , and she is now in debt after paying the final instalment of her poll tax for 1991 . |
| 5 | A particularly important factor was that the processor did not offer the customer a choice of paying a higher fee in return for the processor accepting greater liability : such a choice was recommended in an industry code of practice approved by the Office of Fair Trading . |
| 6 | Under its headline ‘ Mercantile Tricycles Denounced ’ , the Graphic described how , in default of paying a 10 shillings fine plus costs , this cycling desperado was sentenced to seven days ' imprisonment — and what is more , poor Thomas Duff had been estimated by the police to have been rattling along at somewhere between 8 and 10 miles per hour . |
| 7 | Lord Williams of Elvel , Labour 's trade and industry spokesman , said trade unionists could contract out of paying a political levy but shareholders could not contract out of paying a donation . |
| 8 | The Teleuts made an agreement ( shert ) with Muscovite voevody , but never consented to pay yasak during the whole seventeenth century , even when offered the inducement of paying a nominal tenth of the usual quantity . |
| 9 | ( On appeal to the Court of Appeal it was held that the imprisonment was not a repudiation but a ‘ self-induced frustration of the contract ’ Quaere , would an election to go to prison instead of paying a fine constitute a breach ( repudiation ) of contract no matter how long the prison sentence , or would the Court of Appeal put this conduct within the category of ‘ self-induced frustration ’ also ? ) |
| 10 | Has my hon. Friend considered consulting people such as members of the Secondary Heads Association to see whether all the heads of comprehensive schoools in my constituency would relish the idea of paying an extra 9 per cent . |
| 11 | One practice is to establish a retirement benefit scheme , whereby the younger partners , instead of paying an initial sum as their share of capital , contribute to the pensions of the senior partners as they go . |
| 12 | Instead of paying the normal £3.40 for each prescription , you can pay £17.60 for a four month ticket , or £48.50 for a yearly one . |
| 13 | This island has a liberty of brewing whisky without being under the necessity of paying the usual excise duty to the Government . " |
| 14 | This island has a liberty of brewing whisky without being under the necessity of paying the usual excise duty to the Government . " |
| 15 | At the same time the government did not push its reforms as far as some supporters wished ; it did not , for example , place the onus on union members to contract in rather than out of paying the political levy and has done little to break down national wage bargaining which pays little attention to different local labour market conditions . |
| 16 | Following the hearing , Mr Scott Vendrely , 29 , a military policeman who has served in Britain since 1987 , faces the prospect of paying the outstanding £538 bill for two years ' poll tax for his British wife Stephanie . |
| 17 | Eventually , they supposed , some means would be found of paying the wretched girl off , when Philip came to his senses . |
| 18 | The Bill proposes that hoards be kept intact and that the practise of paying the full market value of the objects to the finder should be extended to the entire hoard . |
| 19 | And there are 30 prizes of £175 to go towards paying the dreaded Poll Tax . |
| 20 | They include the contents of the late publisher 's mansion in Oxfordshire , and the money raised will go towards paying the enormous debts on his estate . |
| 21 | But , if we had n't of paid the four thousand , there would n't be a pitch there now . |
| 22 | Some hairdressers charge extra for this but it 's well worth paying a few pounds for . |
| 23 | Is it worth paying the extra money to a company in order to guarantee good quality support and back-up ? |
| 24 | All he had to do then was to make it known that he had promised to leave Laura alone so that she could have a rest in peace , to make an excuse about paying a brief visit to the Gents , to go up to his room — probably via the guest-lift — to stick his hand inside the room and grab the handbag , to take out the jewel before dumping the handbag , and then … ’ |
| 25 | So nobody grumbled at all about paying an extra er bit for for these men . |
| 26 | It was not therefore unexpected that the Thatcher government introduced legislation which reduced the amount of supplementary benefit payable to strikers and which made their trade union responsible for paying a higher amount of strike pay . |
| 27 | Unless there were special factors involved and although I can not recall a situation where we 've paid for a person to go into that 's for members to discuss , not me , but we have certainly paid an enhanced rate where somebody wanted to go to live near their daughter who was in and we felt that was a legitimate reason for paying a higher rate and , and , and we did do so , so there are other types of flexibility . |
| 28 | In return for paying a small weekly contribution the contributor and his dependants acquired a presumption that they would be treated free without a means test though this was never a legal right . |
| 29 | Pupils at Branksome Comprehensive School will be helping raise money for the appeal with a ‘ mufti day ’ when they can wear their own clothes in return for paying a small fee to the charity . |
| 30 | When there is a certain amount of risk involved in an event , most promoters opt for paying the minimum amount of guarantee possible against a larger percentage for the artist . |