Example sentences of "[vb infin] to pay [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | The " self-scrubbing " coal will sell at a premium , but the overall cost will be a fraction of the sum which power generators can currently expect to pay for scrubbing technology . |
2 | I read in the December issue of Credit Management that council , at its October meeting , decided the 1992 subscription rates and also to penalise those who did not choose to pay by direct debit . |
3 | Lord Fraser was pressed by MPs with examples of rises in contributions that people would have to pay towards legal aid and said : ‘ I am not shrinking from the fact that there will be increases in the contribution for some people . ’ |
4 | She sat there going well why should we have to pay for poor people who ca n't be bothered to get jobs , they 're so lazy ! |
5 | Even if , as one study asserts , the USSR pays 50 per cent more for CMEA products than these products command in world markets , the question which matters to the Soviet Union is what she would have to pay for equivalent Western equipment ( and how she would pay for it ) . |
6 | Fife also revealed that tax-payers would not have to pay for uncollected poll tax arrears , believed to stand at up to £35 million . |
7 | Householders will have their first indication of how much they will have to pay by late April . |
8 | You do not have to pay by monthly instalments . |
9 | The University does not undertake to pay for special materials , equipment , etc. required by a student in the course of research . |
10 | If tax-relief-induced donations did not go to pay for mainline social service functions and elected representatives still felt it necessary to continue to provide them , they would have a lower tax base on which to raise the revenue . |
11 | Why does the Lord Chancellor think people who need housing benefit and family credit to meet their basic living expenses can afford to pay for legal advice ? |
12 | STATE schools are being forced to turn away children whose parents can no longer afford to pay for private education . |
13 | The clinic has taken the unusual step of hiring a dentist to look after those patients who simply ca n't afford to pay for private treatment . |
14 | The Government have never accepted that there are some people who can not afford to pay for local government services . |
15 | English student , Nara Kronfli ca n't afford to pay for word-processiong lessons . |