Example sentences of "[v-ing] to pay for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many health authorities have been refusing to pay for treatment , arguing that divers should take out decompression insurance . |
| 2 | It accuses the company of imposing American business practices and ignoring ‘ traditional French negotiation ’ in refusing to pay for cost overruns . |
| 3 | Andrew Hemmings who manages an alcohol recovery project in Manchester for Turning Point , said people had lost heart and started to drink again because of delays in establishing whether the local authority was going to pay for treatment . |
| 4 | Director Mike Cairns said having to pay for community care may mean some older people are deterred from asking for help . |
| 5 | The embarrassing fact is that , to secure this bizarre deal , the department is having to pay for material not yet produced , because Dungeness B was so late in coming on-stream . |
| 6 | But the pot of gold simply does not exist as he has already discovered in trying to pay for Labour 's initial promises . |
| 7 | The sum , substantially in excess of estimates by the country 's central bank which had recently estimated borrowing to pay for war costs at around $10,000 million [ see also pp. 37987 ; 38166 ; 38212 ] , was expected to cover current expenditure reported to be running at some $20,000 million . |
| 8 | John Scott , prospective Labour candidate for Stockton South : ‘ In a last-ditch attempt to remain in power the Government is prepared to bribe the people of Stockton by borrowing to pay for tax cuts . ’ |