Example sentences of "pay for [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You depict rare occurrences — like Westerners paying for foster children to visit their affluent country — as a major problem . |
| 2 | Some aid will go to paying for practical steps already taken , like fish testing programmes . |
| 3 | The country will , in effect , act as a banker , paying for new stations and being paid off from revenue over about three years . |
| 4 | By 1782 he was paying for 16 boys and 7 girls aged 4 to 11 to attend the local school , and contributing money to build the local workhouse . |
| 5 | Erm , so , instead of paying for primary schools , eleven point nine per cent , which is the the actual er amount of er indirect support that is provided within the erm , Education Department , and seven that 's in relation to primary schools , and seven point eight per cent schools . |
| 6 | The Medical Manpower Standing Advisory Committee needs to think much more widely and commission more extensive analyses before committing the nation to the huge costs of paying for extra doctors over the next 20 years . |
| 7 | In the book , author Suzi Leather says it is not ignorance that forces many families to cut their food bills , but the impossibility of paying for all essentials out of ‘ woefully inadequate ’ state benefits . |
| 8 | Mr MacGregor 's discussion paper has a tinge of greenery , but its main interest is conveyed by its title : ‘ Paying for Better Motorways . ’ |
| 9 | Paying for Legal Services |
| 10 | Paying for legal costs . |
| 11 | He claimed the firm had had previous difficulties in getting paid by the council , with one school not paying for five months . |
| 12 | People do not know which authority they are paying for particular services . |
| 13 | Though , it 's just that , one of the things that Caroline actually , er working on with Warwick University is a way of re-looking at public services and how there funded right , it 's basically to help David to make the case with Margaret Margaret for more money with the local Government , but erm I mean the sort of things we 've been getting into is like when you considering paying for public services , should you , should you pay like in advance like through the National Insurance System or like , like I mean the French Health Service for example , people pay it for ambulances when they use them , though they pay on a differential rate , but I mean it 's an issue to debate , it 's right , and I 've just been thinking about lavatory while you 've been speaking . |
| 14 | Again , you are on subjective grounds , but by just about any objective industry standard , Trantec are doing themselves a disservice paying for full pages for those ads . |
| 15 | POCHETTES ARE GOOD WHEN YOU WANT TO TRY DIFFERING WEIGHTS OR COLOURS WITHOUT PAYING FOR FULL SHEETS . |
| 16 | Measure for measure , the paper is more expensive than if you were to buy full sheets and cut up the paper yourself , but pochettes are good when you want to try different weights or colours without paying for full sheets . |
| 17 | Lily could think only of him paying for little girls . |
| 18 | So the link between voting and paying for local services has been broken . |
| 19 | Sunk costs can be easily identified in that they will have been paid or are subject to legally binding contracts and the firm is committed to paying for these contracts in the future . |
| 20 | Er well , not as a Fire Brigade as , as , as individuals I suppose , we , we took the risk of , of paying for these instruments and |
| 21 | I mean , if you 're paying for these things , and you know , fair enough . |
| 22 | ‘ You wo n't be paying for inappropriate placements and you wo n't be picking up the bill for carers later . |
| 23 | Even though I may be in a minority , I feel quite strongly that the job of the record companies is to issue recordings of music at prices the music loving public can afford — not to enhance that price by paying for learned disquisitions seeking to explain what ought to need no explanation . |
| 24 | Byelarus ( on Jan. 3 ) and Ukraine introduced coupon systems for paying for some purchases [ see p. 38732 ] . |
| 25 | ARCO invented an imaginative solution to that challenge and , for five successive years from 1988 , bought results by paying for leading collectors and senior museum officials to visit the fair and a city which was becoming one of the most fashionable capitals in Europe . |
| 26 | By the end of the " thirties , Aunt Tossie wondered for how many years she had been paying for interesting yearlings , and with very uninteresting results . |
| 27 | However , the continuing and , to some , insoluble , problem of the licence fee and the advent of new means of television distribution — satellite television , cable television — and different ways of paying for those services — subscription , sponsorship , advertising or pay-per-view — significantly alter the parameters of British broadcasting . |
| 28 | Fair value , which drops to 22 on Monday , is the notional premium for buying all Footsie stocks now but not paying for three months , taking into account both dividend payments and interest costs . |
| 29 | 19 What is Dean paid for 38 hours work at $2.80 an hour ? |
| 30 | WDCS paid for vital repairs to a whale rescue boat in Massachusetts , USA . |