Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb mod] pay for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Employers may pay for the provision of furniture/household equipment and pay for or subsidise the costs of supplying gas , electricity , water and telephones . |
| 2 | Total exports must pay for total imports , and if a country 's exports fall then imports will also fall unless the deficiency in exports can be made good in the ways specified . |
| 3 | The workhouse — institutional rather than ‘ outdoor ’ relief — was one way of controlling the help given to paupers ; but demands that such institutions should pay for themselves had a hollow ring to it — many of the inmates were there because their skills were not needed in declining industries , so they could hardly be set to work profitably once they were taken within its walls . |
| 4 | However , there seems no reason why creditors should pay for the costs of the Certificate . |
| 5 | Law Report : Solicitors must pay for their negligence Queen 's Bench Division Dickinson v Jones Alexander & Co Before Mr Justice Douglas Brown October 16 1989 . |
| 6 | Previously the government had argued that the slave trade was so profitable that the traders could pay for their own forts , but by the mid-eighteenth century this attitude had changed to an acceptance of the fact that the trade was so necessary for the sugar islands ( and the sugar islands so necessary for the British economy ) that the trade would have to be supported if it could not afford to meet these overhead costs . |
| 7 | How w how organizations can identify what schools will pay for . |
| 8 | Dr James Walker , assistant director of the laboratory , estimates that the four computers will pay for themselves in two years because they reduce the high cost of buying , housing and feeding experimental animals . |
| 9 | And England 's private schools , whose pupils account for a quarter of sixth-formers and of A-level passes , know that parents will pay for the prospect of a smooth path to university . |
| 10 | That 's all it comes by is human learning , and you 're neglecting that , you say , that is you are n't developing a learning society and you 're going to pay for this and pay for this and pay for this , you see , and your children will pay for it , your grandchildren will pay for it , you see , just what you 're doing to the educational system , what you 're doing to the universities and you 're so far behind from what erm most other modern countries are . |
| 11 | Organisations may pay for just the employee and spouse to view accommodation or may make provision for children to go too . |
| 12 | Grain imports would be necessary , he said , although there had been a fall in the Soviet oil revenues used to pay for them . |
| 13 | In the national scheme of things , clippies would pay for themselves in increased efficiency , but more direct finance could come from super-taxing car fuel to penalise the gas guzzlers , and by re-allocating the tax benefits which currently go to company car drivers . |
| 14 | The buyers will pay for these securities with cheques drawn on their accounts with the commercial banks . |
| 15 | She expects that entrepreneurs and high-ranking government officials will pay for such a privileged education for their children . |
| 16 | Heseltine 's vision was of ‘ partnerships which recognise that there are some things that only governments can pay for , but also that the ingenuity and flexibility of the private sector is indispensable ’ ( p. 156 ) . |
| 17 | Customers may pay for goods in instalments . |
| 18 | If pets stray , owners must pay for their keep in the dog pound and another £25 to reclaim . |
| 19 | Viewers would pay for what they watched . |
| 20 | Many of these actions would pay for themselves in under two years and some would have an instant money-saving effect , the leaflet says . |
| 21 | And er fourteen thousand pounds will pay for an awful lot of employee assistance . |
| 22 | The Council 's comments followed the issue of a consultation paper from the Office of Water Services on how households should pay for water after 2000 , when the water companies ' right to use domestic rates as a basis for charging ends . |
| 23 | Mr Prescott warned that rail passengers would pay for the grant cuts by higher fares and poorer service . |
| 24 | The £95m improvement in non-performing loans would pay for these allowances for the next 100 years . |
| 25 | The article implied that the Company embarked on capital works in the hope that future profits will pay for such projects . |
| 26 | Consequently government could grow without encountering any substantial opposition from those whose taxes would pay for this growth As Heclo states : |
| 27 | The council , backing the " polluter must pay " argument , says it is unfair for householders to bear the brunt of the cost ; a tax should be levied on pesticide manufacturers , it argues , and motorists should pay for road drainage through the car licence duty . |
| 28 | Full-time employment may be less of a deterrent to childbearing if mothers can pay for personal child care . |
| 29 | It 's hoped the University authorities will pay for the repairs . |
| 30 | That will not work ; it is not responsible , and future generations will pay for the Government 's failure . |