Example sentences of "pay a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had her own ideas of social justice , and not paying a good employee like Lily because of a death in the family was not one of them . |
| 2 | Israel in fact obtained de facto recognition from Iran by paying a substantial bribe to the then Iranian prime minister , Muhammad Saed . |
| 3 | He said the US authorities were paying a substantial part of the costs incurred by the wives in preparing their legal challenge , but no provision had been made to meet a costs order in favour of Cherwell council . |
| 4 | But in 1300 Theobald recovered his father 's wardenship in fee simple , presumably by paying a substantial fine . |
| 5 | In my innocence and with musical aspirations , I thought it would be lovely to be married to a professional pianist ; after all , my good friend Fraser Muirhead was paying a great deal of attention to Margaret Geddes , another of the city 's first class piano teachers . |
| 6 | I am a 40-year-old male , childless by choice , already paying a great deal of tax to satisfy the needs of women and children . |
| 7 | They were extremely grateful to the Government for stepping in with a £140 rebate because they saw their aunts , uncles , friends , cousins and others elsewhere in the country paying a great deal less . |
| 8 | ‘ And so , she repaid me by paying a great deal of attention to you tonight , signore . |
| 9 | In doing this , the Club — whilst ‘ losing ’ 3s. 0d. on each playing bondholder — was paying a small price for securing his £100 ‘ loan ’ , thus decreasing the risk of it being recalled . |
| 10 | Fuelling this propaganda are free supplies of birth control pills , capsules and IUDs are given out to Timorese who are used to paying a small fortune just to consult a doctor . |
| 11 | This is done by going to your local post office , filling in a form and paying a small fee — the amount depends upon how long you want the post redirected for ; most people find that three months is adequate . |
| 12 | Pupils at Branksome Comprehensive School will be helping raise money for the appeal with a ‘ mufti day ’ when they can wear their own clothes in return for paying a small fee to the charity . |
| 13 | Tim is doing a one-year cabinetmaking course with me and paying a princely sum for the pleasure of doing it . |
| 14 | IT lifted my sorrow when I saw that the Mirror finally shamed the blundering DSS into paying a disabled man 's benefit increase after a nine-month delay . |
| 15 | There was no interim dividend , but Mr Aitken said the directors would consider paying a final dividend at the year-end in the light of trading conditions then . |
| 16 | Costain is not paying a final dividend , making the interim 43/4p the total for the year . |
| 17 | Despite the losses , BAe is paying a final dividend of 4p , cutting the total for the year from 25p to 7p and leaving distributable reserves of only £87 million . |
| 18 | The Leander class frigate headed for Portsmouth to be decommissioned after paying a final farewell to Teesside . |
| 19 | The Royal Shakespeare Company is paying a first visit to Durham City but not to tread the boards . |
| 20 | The Minister was apparently paying a semi-private visit , having come to Andhra Pradesh on official business . |
| 21 | She sat down on the roses-and-castles chair with a ludicrous sense of formality , as if paying a polite call in a tailored suit and a small , veiled hat . |
| 22 | Next , he looks around for credit terms paying a one-fifth deposit of £20 , and the rest in 24 monthly instalments . |
| 23 | But though everyone acts for himself , his knowledge of what others are doing is supposed to be generally sufficient to prevent him from taking a lower or paying a higher price than others are doing . |
| 24 | Thus if more bonds and fewer Treasury bills were issued , the banks could still obtain the same amount of bills as before ( by paying a higher price ) , with other buyers getting less . |
| 25 | A particularly important factor was that the processor did not offer the customer a choice of paying a higher fee in return for the processor accepting greater liability : such a choice was recommended in an industry code of practice approved by the Office of Fair Trading . |
| 26 | It was not therefore unexpected that the Thatcher government introduced legislation which reduced the amount of supplementary benefit payable to strikers and which made their trade union responsible for paying a higher amount of strike pay . |
| 27 | In strict cash terms she is paying a higher rate on her mortgage than her savings are earning . |
| 28 | Unless there were special factors involved and although I can not recall a situation where we 've paid for a person to go into that 's for members to discuss , not me , but we have certainly paid an enhanced rate where somebody wanted to go to live near their daughter who was in and we felt that was a legitimate reason for paying a higher rate and , and , and we did do so , so there are other types of flexibility . |
| 29 | Under its headline ‘ Mercantile Tricycles Denounced ’ , the Graphic described how , in default of paying a 10 shillings fine plus costs , this cycling desperado was sentenced to seven days ' imprisonment — and what is more , poor Thomas Duff had been estimated by the police to have been rattling along at somewhere between 8 and 10 miles per hour . |
| 30 | I 'm not paying a bloody hell of a lot ! |