Example sentences of "[noun pl] pay for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Produced by Armanino Foods of Distinction , they suffered from the reluctance of cash-strapped shoppers to pay for premium brands last year . |
| 2 | From March 24 the Enterprise Initiative Consultancy Scheme ( EICS ) will only be available at a cut-price rate , because the Department of Trade and Industry are re-directing funds to pay for alternative business packages . |
| 3 | The sick were provided with food and medicine , neighbours were paid to nurse them and in some cases the overseers paid for medical care by contract with a local practitioner , or patients might be sent to hospital . |
| 4 | The proposed jobs tax would be a contribution by all companies to pay for centralised training funds . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | You depict rare occurrences — like Westerners paying for foster children to visit their affluent country — as a major problem . |
| 7 | Guests pay for functional but comfortable three-bedded room with TV , hot and cold water and a separate shower and loo . |
| 8 | Scottish Enterprise , the successor to the Scottish Development Agency which was the driving force behind the plan to bring in leisure and commerce to the Waterfront , has given the council seven days to pay for extensive infrastructure works or face court proceedings . |
| 9 | In Stuart 's view , one way of perhaps increasing value for money is encouraging our customers to pay for certain areas of research . |
| 10 | Previously , under the Poor Law Act of 1834 , a clause empowered boards of guardians to use local rates to pay for deaf ( and blind ) children 's education in asylums . |
| 11 | We estimated that the consequences of motherhood lowered the pay of employed mothers relative to their childless contemporaries through factors such as lost employment experience , downward occupational mobility and the low rates paid for part-time work . |
| 12 | For example , the proposed EC limits on car exhaust emissions will require more expensive car engines or catalytic converters , so internalizing the cost of air pollution by making motorists pay for preventive action . |
| 13 | On nationalisation around a quarter of households in Britain still lacked a supply of electricity , most of them in urban slums ( which had been uneconomic to connect either because of their short expected life or the inability of the occupants or unwillingness of their landlords to pay for internal wiring ) . |
| 14 | The agreement became possible when Spain lifted its veto after agreement had been reached on setting up a fund to help the Community 's poorer members to pay for environmental protection measures . |
| 15 | Thus the aim of a two-part tariff is to use fixed charges to pay for fixed costs and then to levy marginal charges to cover marginal costs . |
| 16 | In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries there was a passion for collecting prehistoric flint implements , and quite high prices were paid for prize specimens ; not perhaps in the same league as the prices paid for Classical sculpture , but quite enough to encourage the fakers . |
| 17 | yeah — Lukic again — — why — did not Wilko buy a top class keeper before this season ? they — do — come around pretty cheap — i think the prices paid for foreign guys like Kharin , Thorstvedt , Schmeichel , Bosnich are pretty low compared to your average midfielder/attacker … |
| 18 | The exclusion of the top 10% removes from the sample potentially distorting prices paid for exceptional works ; removing the bottom 10% eliminates seriously damaged works and others of doubtful authenticity . |
| 19 | A particular form of abuse which was greatly resented was the levying of extra taxes to pay for imperial ceremonies — for example the assumption of power by a new sultan — and for the increasing costs of the wars which the empire was forced to fight as its power was challenged by its enemies , notably the Habsburgs during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries . |
| 20 | The duty of local and health authorities to pay for certain funerals |
| 21 | THE DUTY OF LOCAL AND HEALTH AUTHORITIES TO PAY FOR CERTAIN FUNERALS |
| 22 | On Jan. 11 Italy unblocked up to 10 per cent of frozen Iraqi assets to pay for Italian exports . |
| 23 | A related piece of legislation is the Water Resources Act 1991 , which gives the National Rivers Authority wide-ranging powers to combat water pollution including , again , the right to compel landowners to pay for remedial work . |
| 24 | One of the main reasons for the government introducing the system is to ensure that more residents pay for local services . |
| 25 | Driving lessons on the state : Social services paid for single mother 's classes . |
| 26 | Marketing Boards have been an instrument favoured by most African governments as a means of ensuring that farmers have an outlet for their crops , and that urban consumers pay for basic foodstuffs at a controlled , often subsidized , price . |