Example sentences of "and [adv] paid [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It was far too early for the immaculate and highly paid receptionist to be in ; in fact , no one below the level of partner was present .
2 Deep down , however , and reading his own comments about always having to fight for employment and never being superbly successful , one ca n't help feeling he actually yearned for the stability that steady and better paid work would bring .
3 In the Nonconformists ' laissez faire way of life , ministers were frequently moving about , usually to a more advantageous and better paid position .
4 The courts will not take the incidence of future inflation into account in calculating the dependency , but if it is established that the deceased would have increased his income in the future for reasons other than inflation ( eg because he would have been promoted if he had remained in his job or because he would probably have attained higher and better paid skills or a better paid job if he had lived ) this might give grounds for increasing the multiplicand .
5 Any effects fall short of the most powerful and best paid positions , leaving the upper class intact .
6 The superstars who race fearsome 175bhp four cylinder twostrokes in the 15 GP 's , stretching from Japan , Australia and America through Europe to Brazil and Malaysia , are the most famous and best paid performers in bikesport .
7 Convertibles , gearing and partly paid shares
8 Both had for a period apprenticed their ideas to those of Graham Sutherland and both paid homage to Picasso , Vaughan equating him with Auden and Bartók as an artist who had evolved ‘ a coherent vocabulary of form appropriate to our life ’ .
9 Wright ( Finch and Groves , 1983 ) reports a small survey of single carers from which women were more likely to have given up employment than men in order to care for parents , sometimes giving up secure and well paid work when in their late forties or earlier fifties .
10 The emoluments of the directors including the Chairman and highest paid director fell within the following bands :
11 A buyer 's occupation rights and fully paid share in the management company would be fully transferable , but only in combination .
12 John arrived first in Australia in 1791 , aged 18 , as a lowly and poorly paid Ensign in the New South Wales Corps , an ill-disciplined and motley band of renegades raised in Britain and sent out chiefly to police the penal colonies .
13 It is all very well to point out how much food is munched by an animal in order for it to develop a nice juicy back leg or plump shoulder , but what is rarely taken into consideration is the amount of fertile soil and poorly paid labour required to produce the well-fleshed habitués of vegetarian eateries .
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