Example sentences of "[noun pl] ' money on " in BNC.
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1 | They are still trying to persuade you that Palatine really needs Anglo-Welsh , and they are evidently prepared to spend vast amounts of their shareholders ' money on national advertising to impress you . |
2 | ‘ And yet the banks already earn interest on customers ' money on current account , which they do not pass on . ’ |
3 | Macready had men posted on the sidewalks to protect his customers ' money on their way to the casino . |
4 | Labour and the Liberal Democrats believe that spending a lot more of taxpayers ' money on education ( Labour £600 million , the Liberal Democrats £4.6 billion ) and denying parents a say over their children 's education , will somehow improve things . |
5 | We save taxpayers ' money on benefits . |
6 | LABOUR backbenchers yesterday called for two Cabinet ministers to explain how they allegedly spent £6,000 of taxpayers ' money on three urgent flights home from France , or repay the money . |
7 | The idea of a parents charter is not new ; what is new is the brazenness with which the Government play fast and loose , spending taxpayers ' money on party political propaganda . |
8 | These are of course the history teacher 's daily stock in trade , often taken for granted but when we are publicly called upon to justify the spending of taxpayers ' money on our subject , the most obvious may well be one of the strongest arguments for the teaching of history to all young people to the age of 16 . |
9 | We have spent thousands of citizens ' tax payers ' money on that case and the Eastern Board have spent more than us in defending it . |
10 | The only thing that stands between county hall being put to good use is the Labour-controlled Lambeth borough council , which is squandering charge payers ' money on increasingly desperate but unsuccessful attempts to prevent the sale of county hall and its productive use for hotel and residential accommodation . |
11 | They seem determined to spend their community charge payers ' money on the most irrelevant and frivolous projects rather than concentrating on the real problems that the hon. Gentleman described . |
12 | Mr Healy claimed that Down District Council was in danger of spending grant aid and ratepayers ' money on a high risk tourist venture and confusing it with economic development . |