Example sentences of "pay [noun sg] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Countries paying money to users of contraception : BANGLADESH , EGYPT , INDIA , INDONESIA , MALAYSIA , MAURITIUS , NEPAL , SOUTH KOREA , SRI LANKA , THAILAND , TUNISIA , VIETNAM |
| 2 | In recent well-publicised cases , SSDs have found themselves paying compensation to victims of crimes committed by young people in their care . |
| 3 | Meanwhile , canny Munroists who paid attention to satellite technology , which indicated a depression deeper than Christmas in Barlinnie , were sitting at home by the fire eating cheese on toast . |
| 4 | The Japanese are ahead in robotics because they paid attention to demographics . |
| 5 | For the first time , Marie paid attention to Gazzer . |
| 6 | None of this alters the fact that it is possible to use these adjectives with a tense value distinctively different from that of the preceding verb ; see ( 51 ) and the contrast in ( 52 ) : ( 51 ) we all know Cerrutty to have been fortunate ( 52 ) ( a ) in the test my men showed themselves alert ( b ) in the test my men showed themselves to have been alert In ( 52 ) , ( a ) would naturally be suitable when the men respond promptly during the test , and ( b ) when , for instance , they had been alert in paying attention to instructions given at some time before the test . |
| 7 | Interviews — paying attention to reasons for leaving previous jobs , frequent changes of residence , and job-related medical history . |
| 8 | What I am trying to say is that merely paying attention to sex difference — affirming that women exist and are different from men — is not in and of itself a feminist gesture . |
| 9 | ‘ You will perceive by the accompanying prospectus that I have commenced another work of much greater magnitude [ than the Century ] ; for my own part I should have been more anxious to have gone on with unfigured foreign birds and by that means have added so much the more interest to the science of ornithology , but the greater number of the subscribers to my other work not paying attention to birds generally but limiting themselves to those of our own country , they have frequently reiterated their request that I should commence a similar work on the Birds of [ 'this country ’ crossed out ] Europe and this has been the only motive for my undertaking so laborious a task . ’ |
| 10 | Paying attention to biology need not involve assuming that biology makes fixed contributions to psychology ( Hirst and Wooley 1982 ) , or even that all biological discourses are the same . |
| 11 | By paying attention to detail the PROFITBOSS gets the pay-off in profit . |
| 12 | Begin to revise and redraft in discussion with the teacher , other adults , or other children in the class , paying attention to meaning and clarity as well as checking for matters such as correct and consistent use of past tenses and pronouns . |
| 13 | Certainly , it is impossible to understand the form of the relationship between land and state agencies without paying attention to issues of influence . |
| 14 | For the moment we shall suppose that you probably recognise the type of writer in ( a ) as some impersonal / institutionalised writer addressing a general reader rather than a particular individual ( paying attention to Place and Remove and the ellipsis in the second sentence ( the ) finger nearest ( to the ) stop ) . |
| 15 | When she found that she was pregnant , she turned to her older sister for help , and since the O'Dells knew that Mr Marriner had been paying court to Moira , they assumed he was responsible for her condition . |
| 16 | RACING yesterday paid tribute to Arthur Stephenson , one of the all-time great trainers , who died on Thursday night , aged 72 . |
| 17 | But clearly angry and frustrated , he paid tribute to Everton keeper Neville Southall . |
| 18 | Norman paid tribute to Gateshead , which hosted the Europa Cup three years ago , when Britain won their way to the World Cup in Barcelona . |
| 19 | Despite this , Potidaia paid tribute to Athens , who in 433/2 demanded that Potidaia should send home the Corinthian magistrates and pull down part of her walls . |
| 20 | Perhaps it was the Thirty Years Peace of 446 ; or perhaps there was a special arrangement with Aigina , who may have had her autonomy guaranteed individually , though she certainly paid tribute to Athens . |
| 21 | He did it in style , preparing the ground by a speech to the Legislative Assembly in which he paid tribute to Gandhi 's sincerity and asked him to recognize his own . |
| 22 | THE HOLLYWOOD star Harrison Ford and the SAS were among those who paid tribute to stuntman Tim ‘ Tip ’ Tipping at his funeral yesterday . |
| 23 | He paid tribute to Hunt 's efforts as a driver and a BBC TV commentator . |
| 24 | Robinson paid tribute to Mrs Ash 's excellent housekeeping , and lamented that she had never become the Mother she was ideally suited to be . |
| 25 | Bishop Auckland General Hospital was one of the first three units in the district to achieve its target and Erika Wallis , chairman of South West Durham Health Authority , paid tribute to consultants , nurses and staff for their ‘ commitment and hard work ’ . |
| 26 | NEW US PGA champion Nick Price yesterday paid tribute to Nick Faldo for inspiring him to victory here at Bellerive . |
| 27 | Llanelli captain Rupert Moon who had a rare , bruising tussle with Wales No.1 Robert Jones , paid tribute to Swansea 's tactics . |
| 28 | But Lord Donaldson paid tribute to Lord Lane and defended his performance during 12 years as Lord Chief Justice . |
| 29 | Young guitarist Eric Clapton paid tribute to King by purposely copying one of his hit solos . |
| 30 | That the winning of a British Open championship is a two-man team even can best be illustrated by two of the great tournament 's champions of the past — two immortals who owe a little of their immortality to the men who strode beside them when they made history : when Henry Cotton won his first Open in 1934 , he paid tribute to Ernest Butler of Sandwich , a caddie who was ‘ uncanny with his advice concerning the line of the hole ’ . |