Example sentences of "were pay [prep] the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | No one would object if they were paying for the facilities themselves . |
| 2 | Angela and Chris , both 28 , thought the bride 's parents , Norman and Gladys Smith , were paying for the lunchtime buffet , and both families would share the cost of the evening reception . |
| 3 | 12 Grace Leybourne buttressed such arguments in Education and the Birth Rate by demonstrating that the middle classes and the intelligent were paying for the high costs of education by family limitation at the dysgenic expense of the national interest . |
| 4 | Seventy five I think , yeah , seventy five I think they were paying for the . |
| 5 | Do n't ask me to pluck figures out of the air , but it was a reasonable rent , and they were paying for the rates , and their electricity , and their water supply , and their sewage disposal , on permanent sites . |
| 6 | They were work , and the students , who were paying through the nose for them , were grim , resentful and bloody-minded . |
| 7 | The lower clergy were to pay at the reduced rate of the 1254 valuation , but , far more significantly , the tax was to be collected , supervised and delivered to the king by the clergy themselves — a procedure thereafter tenaciously preserved by Winchelsey and his successors . |
| 8 | The company 's premises were destroyed by fire and the proceeds of insurance were paid into the company 's bank account . |
| 9 | The position of women is even worse : 8 per cent were paid below the legal minimum while over one-half were paid barely above it ( Winyard 1978 ) . |
| 10 | Several jobs were paid below the National Insurance contribution threshold ( Hakim , 1989 ) , while other women did jobs like running catalogues which were not recognised as ‘ work ’ . |
| 11 | Meanwhile , a treaty had been negotiated between Pope Hadrian IV and William I of Sicily ( June 1156 ) in which certain territorial rights were listed , and in return homage and a large yearly tribute were paid to the Pope . |
| 12 | The village playing field stands opposite the old school and occupies the old titheyard where tithes were paid to the church up to the early 19th century . |
| 13 | Bribes in the Kandyan Kingdom were paid to the judge , and it was accepted that both sides would contribute . |
| 14 | A human touch was added to Nash 's report : ‘ I could heartily wish more respect were paid to the remains of this amiable though unfortunate Queen , and would willingly , with proper leave , have them wrapt in another sheet of lead and coffin , and decently interred in some proper place , that at least after her death her body might remain in peace ; whereas the Chapel where she now lies is used for the keeping of rabbits , which make holes and scratch very indecently about her Royal corpse . ’ |
| 15 | The parade of Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA managers should finally be concluded , says a report in La Repubblica , after the Milan judges interrogated Antonio Garrani , Daniele Mosca and Carlo Lombardoni last week : the three confirmed that other bribes for the supply of computers were paid to the Ministry of Justice through the administrator of a quasi-governmental agency . |
| 16 | Even if ‘ tax credits ’ were paid to the mother this would fall far short of the advantages of Family Allowance and would be completely unacceptable to women . |
| 17 | Flour from France , from the Moulin Corbeil , was imported , heavy bribes were paid to the Spaniards and it was then sold to either German or British commercial agents to feed the armies of those nations . |
| 18 | The question which lies at the heart of the appeal is whether money exacted as taxes from a citizen by the revenue ultra vires is recoverable by the citizen as of right ; if so , Woolwich will be entitled to interest on the sums repaid to it by the revenue , running from the dates when those sums were paid to the revenue by Woolwich . |
| 19 | On 31st March 1991 , dividends of £121,000 were paid to the preference shareholders . |
| 20 | How much would it cost if fair compensation were paid to the standard rate taxpayer each year if that were to be done ? |
| 21 | Land taxes were paid to the ? |
| 22 | County cricketers were paid for the summer and only the best were given a reduced wage to see them through the winter . |
| 23 | Dr Crockett , Mr Michael Bewick , a leading kidney transplant surgeon , and Mr Michael Joyce , a urologist at Guy 's Hospital , deny professional misconduct over their involvement in transplanting kidneys from four living Turks , all of whom were paid for the organs . |
| 24 | Three doctors are before the committee charged with professional misconduct for their alleged involvement in removing kidneys from four Turks who were paid for the organs . |
| 25 | Three doctors are before the committee charged with professional misconduct for their alleged involvement in removing kidneys from four Turks who were paid for the organs . |
| 26 | Two guineas were paid for the use of the engine and hose , with payment of two shillings for the first hour and one shilling per hour afterwards for firemen , and one shilling for the first hour and six pence afterwards for pumpers . |
| 27 | In the price range £100-£1,000 , no less than twenty-one of the twenty-two highest prices were paid for the products of six presses — Kelmscott ( 5 ) , Doves ( 6 ) , Ashendene ( 3 ) , Golden Cockerel ( 2 ) , Shakespeare Head ( 2 ) and Gregynog ( 3 ) . |
| 28 | For instance , the single person 's National Insurance retirement pension in 1990 is worth 26 per cent more than unemployment benefit , whereas back in 1972 they were paid at the same rate and had been for most of the period since 1948 . |
| 29 | In our study , gender was taken account of in the selection of workshops : we studied workshops with men only , with women only , workshops where men and women did the same work and were paid at the same rate , and those where the sexes did different jobs and men were paid more than women . |
| 30 | Of these claims , 1535 ( 77.2% ) were paid at the higher rate and 453 ( 22.8% ) at the lower rate paid for visits done by deputising services . |