Example sentences of "[adv] pay for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Top-up orders indicate the restaurant is going to have to make do with existing equipment until trade picks up enough to pay for a complete replacement . |
| 2 | The original grant of £500 p.a. ( then enough to pay for a part-time secretary ) has been steadily increased to a sum of £20,140 p.a. in 1988 . |
| 3 | Newsagent Jeff McKenna who runs a shop in Murray Street , Hartlepool , wants local traders and residents to club together to pay for a policeman to patrol their area exclusively . |
| 4 | So if you complain about your council tax , do n't , students are exempt anyway so that 's alright , if you complain about your council tax do n't because it only pays for a very small fraction of what local authorities spend . |
| 5 | The government already pays for a unit at the Royal Aircraft Establishment , in Farnborough , that uses powerful computers to analyse signals from the satellites . |
| 6 | So he headed off demands for a capital levy , knowing it to be unacceptable to his party , but Britain nevertheless paid for a higher proportion of the costs of the war from taxation than the other combatants ; he was also able to launch the Victory Loan of 1917 at an interest rate of only 5 per cent , having a surer sense of the patriotism of potential subscribers than did the Treasury . |
| 7 | ESA has already paid for a launch on Ariane , but it can transfer this money to cover the launch of the Giotto mission to Halley 's comet in 1985 . |
| 8 | Why would a maker fit DR-DOS , when it had already paid for a copy of a Microsoft system ? |
| 9 | That notoriety explains why Simon & Schuster paid $275,000 for the translation rights , the highest sum ever paid for a Japanese book . |
| 10 | The FT was moving premises and sold the building to a Japanese Corporation for £143 million — the highest price ever paid for a City site . |
| 11 | What 's the most you 've ever paid for a fish ? £90 |
| 12 | What 's the most you 've ever paid for a fish ? £50 for a fancy goldfish . |
| 13 | What 's the most you 've ever paid for a fish ? 32p |
| 14 | What 's the most you 've ever paid for a fish ? |
| 15 | What 's the most you 've ever paid for a fish ? |
| 16 | The Maharajah also paid for a warden 's cottage nearby ; a tiny octagonal building with just 3 rooms . |
| 17 | At the moment we are also paying for a specialist company to provide address labels in postcode order ( to quality for Presstream ) because until a few weeks ago the National Office computer could not do this task . |
| 18 | In essence , Labour is proposing the Swedish model in which the state controls the economy — rather than owning it — and taxes it ferociously to pay for a ballooning public sector . |
| 19 | It is the price the arts must inevitably pay for a higher political profile . |
| 20 | ‘ We simply paid for a month 's advertising which has not run out . ’ |
| 21 | The terms and conditions also address such grey areas such as what happens if the buyer has possession of a work , but has not completely paid for it when it is stolen ( the liability is the buyer 's ) , and the duty of such a buyer who has partially paid for a work , to store the work separately from his own goods , not to export it , to retain the seller 's identifying marks , and to allow the seller or his agent access to the work . |
| 22 | The nursery is £35 a week cheaper then paying for a nanny . |
| 23 | The sale — the highest paid for a work by an English artist — is subject to the granting of an export licence . |
| 24 | They both knew what Benny was going to say : that there was no chance of the wealthy Westwards paying for a university education for Eve . |
| 25 | That methodology , some members argued , might enhance the Scottish budget given that Scotland was currently paying for a share of some centralised services which it neither used nor needed . |
| 26 | ‘ I told you once , cara , I have never paid for a woman . ’ |