Example sentences of "have paid [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The UN Development Programme has paid for tests on existing photovoltaic systems , and a British consultancy , Sir William Halcrow and Partners is carrying out field work in Sudan , the Philippines and Egypt . |
| 2 | Moreover , the attention the association has paid to cinema has offered a space in which it has been possible to raise the issue of the production and distribution of narrative and dramatic works in African languages . |
| 3 | The hon. Gentleman should be ashamed of the lip service that he has paid to employment by continuing to outline such policies . |
| 4 | Of course , in those situations where the buyer can and does accept part and reject part of the goods ( i.e. where section 30 applies or where the contract is severable , see paragraphs 11–07 and 11–08 above ) , he is entitled to recover any part of the price that he has paid in respect of the rejected part of the goods . |
| 5 | He 'd paid for insurance but the travel agency had n't passed his premium on to its insurers . |
| 6 | ‘ You would have paid for Maggie , would n't you ! ’ |
| 7 | The price of those chocolates would have paid for food for an Indian family for a whole day . |
| 8 | But no , it was inconceivable that the money they had made there could have paid for Harrods . |
| 9 | ‘ My father would have paid for years and years to have me become a doctor , a lawyer or an engineer . |
| 10 | Perhaps she should have paid by cheque after all . |
| 11 | The Titfords , it seemed , had not given up the Miscellaneous Repos business for good : an unmarried Scottish lady in her sixties , Jessie Grieve , was staying with them as a lodger ; what little she may have paid in rent would have been very useful , no doubt , as a means of eking out the family income . |
| 12 | The authority spent twenty thousand pounds on the eviction , half what the squatters say they 'd have paid in rent over the two years |
| 13 | To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what is his estimate of how much more businesses would have paid in rates during 1990-91 and 1991-92 if uniform business rate had not been in operation . |
| 14 | ‘ The agreement itself is not enforceable against the other contracting party ; and if he had paid under it he could , having paid under protest , recover back the sums paid , as money had and received to his use . |
| 15 | The agreement itself is not enforceable against the other contracting party ; and if he had paid under it he could , having paid under protest , recover back the sums paid , as money had and received to his use . |
| 16 | The agreement itself is not enforceable against the other contracting party ; and if he had paid under it he could , having paid under protest , recover back the sums paid , as money had and received to his use . |
| 17 | The brand name of this factory was sold and is now being manufactured abroad , but an unsuspecting public still buys that brand , after having paid in taxes the outstanding debt . |
| 18 | What counts as a low income depends on how much money you and your partner have left each week after you 've paid for things like rates or Community Charge , rent or mortgage . |
| 19 | He lives in the Stroud District and he 'd demanding that local people should be refunded the £7 million they 've paid in water charges . |
| 20 | ‘ You 've paid in advance for another week or so , right ? ’ |
| 21 | Yeah well if you say you 've paid by cheque that 's |
| 22 | if defendant had paid into court and plaintiff had accepted , plaintiff would have been entitled to an order for costs to be taxed if not agreed . |
| 23 | In Kinvig v Holland Hannen & Cubbitts [ 1977 ] CLY 373 an interesting situation arose because the plaintiff failed to beat a payment in but had his damages increased on appeal , although still not so as to bear the amount that the defendant had paid into court . |
| 24 | The crowd , who had paid between £15 and £25 for a ticket , loved it . |
| 25 | The position might be different if Woolwich had paid under threat of the revenue taking distress proceedings without a court order under section 61 of the Taxes Management Act 1980 , but as I have said there is no evidence that such drastic and highly unusual proceedings were either threatened by the revenue or anticipated by Woolwich , still less that Woolwich had a reasonable apprehension of being put out of business by them . |
| 26 | When Chetnik came to appreciate this it sought to reclaim the rates it had paid under section 9 of the Act of 1967 . |
| 27 | talking and he was telling about a visit he had paid to China for a whole week |
| 28 | As there was little or no advance warning , those people who had paid for entertainment until 2am understandably felt short-changed . |
| 29 | Then in Campbell v. Hall ( 1774 ) 1 Cowp. 204 the plaintiff brought a successful action against the King 's Collector to recover duty which he had paid upon sugar exported from the island of Grenada . |
| 30 | Had such a regime already existed , the creditors of the recently collapsed Land Travel would not have lost the money — about £6.6m — that they had paid in advance for their holidays . |