Example sentences of "[vb infin] to pay for [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 | 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 ! |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | Fife also revealed that tax-payers would not have to pay for uncollected poll tax arrears , believed to stand at up to £35 million . |
| 5 | The University does not undertake to pay for special materials , equipment , etc. required by a student in the course of research . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ? |
| 8 | STATE schools are being forced to turn away children whose parents can no longer afford to pay for private education . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The Government have never accepted that there are some people who can not afford to pay for local government services . |
| 11 | English student , Nara Kronfli ca n't afford to pay for word-processiong lessons . |