Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] pay for " in BNC.
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| 1 | He sold a Holbein masterpiece earlier this year for £10million to pay for the upkeep of his estate . |
| 2 | The trouble is that charity work never ends and the same can be said for the constant need for money to pay for research work , buy new hospital machinery or vehicles for disabled youngsters . |
| 3 | ‘ The claim was for money paid for a consideration which had failed . |
| 4 | ‘ The claim was for money paid for a consideration which had failed . |
| 5 | ‘ The claim was for money paid for a consideration which had failed . |
| 6 | Where the defendant has made a voluntary interim payment before proceedings , the plaintiff must still plead the whole of his claim including any special damage for expense paid for by the interim payment . |
| 7 | The tax man will get a large slice leaving the rest for contractors to pay for administration and potentially massive profits . |
| 8 | If we can use it , we will of course pay for your tape . |
| 9 | Of course paying for childcare could be used against women — the most obvious danger being that it could be made selective ( on class or race lines ) or conditional upon certain standards of maternal behaviour — but there are risks in any advance . |
| 10 | Oil production , the chief earner of money to pay for grain and other imports , is falling sharply . |
| 11 | enrolment rates for primary education are decreasing further from the already low level of 47 per cent in 1986/7 as parents keep their children out of school for lack of money to pay for school books , etc ; and |
| 12 | To sum up , £50 is still a lot of money to pay for a mitre saw . |
| 13 | he 's retired , but he 's , he 's been quite busy with this Festival , but I , I said to him , now what I 'll do is maybe come and you and him and Jane maybe kind of will just sort of have a quick confab sometime just talk about what he wants , and he will be kind of happy to do that with obviously we 'd have to find a drop of money to pay for the tapes , I mean that would n't be huge and expensive . |
| 14 | Then , when word got out that Hurley again had a drawerful of money to pay for information , everybody in Beirut would try to get in on the act , making things up if they had to . |
| 15 | ‘ Five thousand pounds is a lot of money to pay for something you do not exactly know . ’ |
| 16 | We 're talking about hundreds , not thousands here because there are six hundred clubs , so we 're talking , but I think though we , we hope to be able to give significant amounts of money to pay for perhaps safety boats , perhaps instructors , perhaps rescue boat fuel , enough to kick-start these courses off which is important and those forms are going out at the end of the week and when the money 's gone we 'll stop giving the grants out . |
| 17 | I ca n't see the education committee with their lack of money paying for transport for children from here |
| 18 | One limited the powers of LEAs to pay for places in independent schools , another ( Section 10 ) encouraged the education of handicapped children in ordinary schools ( but see the 1981 Education Act ) . |
| 19 | It has often been suggested that the active self-government practised by the Athenians was only made possible by the existence of slavery , and perhaps also by the existence of empire as a source of revenue to pay for democracy . |
| 20 | Last month we reported that Venice 's churches might have to be closed except during services because of a shortage of funds to pay for custodians . |
| 21 | But the state — indirectly — contributes over 50 per cent of annual funds in the form of subscriptions paid for news services . |
| 22 | But as there would be a saving of £1,000,000 for the values of rents paid for existing offices , the total cost of the scheme would be £1,500,000 . |
| 23 | In 1988 ‘ stabilisers ’ were introduced limiting the amount of cash paid for each type of product . |
| 24 | Purchased machinery to make the chairs at a cost of £4,000 paid for immediately . |
| 25 | As a result , we have another ill-thought-out form of taxation to pay for local authorities . |
| 26 | By my judgement as the amendment reflects is that it is n't necessary but if it were I would have no hesitation s whatsoever in increasing the level of taxation to pay for what needs to be paid for . |
| 27 | But for months , Hay had been forcing Bryan to hand over hundreds of pounds to pay for an expensive lifestyle . |
| 28 | Old folk at the Wesley Court centre had collected hundreds of pounds to pay for the sing-a-long machine . |
| 29 | why should millions of taxpayers pay for your happiness ? |
| 30 | Why should millions of taxpayers pay for your pay rise ? |