Example sentences of "[noun pl] to pay [prep] [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 highest earning dealers only take back OTC stock if their client needs the funds to pay for another stock ; or if it is a stock that the directors want back , so allowing the dealers to retrieve in their names , and thus to evade a cut in their own commissions . |
| 4 | ‘ I was not prepared to use my own savings to pay for that , ’ John said . |
| 5 | The customer collects high volumes of lower value payments from its clients and recognises the many advantages to be gained from encouraging those clients to pay by direct debits . |
| 6 | Some people are realising that there 's a lot more to life than paying your rent and having your American Express card , ’ says Margo , conveniently forgetting about the discreet stickers near the cash desk encouraging clients to pay by American Express and Mastercharge . |
| 7 | Despite the persistence of huge environmental problems , Western donors and lending institutions are financing only projects that give a good return on investment and are expecting Eastern European countries to pay for much of the clean-up themselves . |
| 8 | The proposed jobs tax would be a contribution by all companies to pay for centralised training funds . |
| 9 | He has accepted 21 of the 28 recommendations made by the committee , but turned down demands for baggage hold examination and the introduction of a levy on fares to pay for better security . |
| 10 | The plan contained no hint of tax revenues to pay for all this and made only passing reference to budgetary requirements and credit policy . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | In Stuart 's view , one way of perhaps increasing value for money is encouraging our customers to pay for certain areas of research . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Apart from those deemed to be in genuine need , the budget required patients to pay for all or part of the cost of their medical treatment . |
| 15 | 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 ) . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Notwithstanding the re-election of Mrs Thatcher in 1983 and 1987 , a clear majority of voters have favoured increased taxes to pay for greater expenditure on services such as health , education , and welfare , over tax cutting and programme cutting ( Table 10.1 ) . |
| 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 | may be sufficient to persuade the defendant to pay up , or at least make proposals to pay by substantial instalments . |
| 23 | On Jan. 11 Italy unblocked up to 10 per cent of frozen Iraqi assets to pay for Italian exports . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Waiting to earn some francs to pay for some soup and some bread . |
| 26 | It is the student 's responsibility to arrange for payment in full , on or before enrolment , although arrangements exist to allow self-funding students to pay in termly instalments ( see below ) . |
| 27 | If the right hon. Gentleman would only himself address the causes of crime , he would realise that they would certainly not be solved by the suggestion made at the Labour party press conference this morning — that we should empty our prisons to pay for more police . |