Example sentences of "to pay for [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although Muslims in some areas paid cizye , the burden of this tax bore most heavily on the Christians , who were required to pay for every male of twelve years of age on a sliding scale , according to his assessed wealth . |
| 2 | Generally , sponsors for local ramps are a very rare creature indeed — local fund raising is definitely the best way to pay for a ramp . |
| 3 | The business-inclined Whigs believed that victory in Europe would automatically secure our overseas interests : the land-owning Tories , with their traditional dislike of the high taxation needed to pay for a standing army , sought to achieve the same ends with peripheral maritime operations , carried out by the Navy , which could largely pay for themselves by taking other powers ' colonies and trading posts . |
| 4 | I 've got to pay for a turn |
| 5 | To sum up , £50 is still a lot of money to pay for a mitre saw . |
| 6 | The idea is graphically summarised by Alison Norman : ‘ We are all familiar with the advertisements and Christmas begging letters which ask for money in terms which suggest that old people are in danger of hypothermia or social isolation simply because they are old — not because they do not have sufficient incomes to heat and repair their homes or to pay for a taxi or telephone . ’ |
| 7 | The tube workers had a whip-round to pay for a taxi to the railway station . |
| 8 | It would be a foolish and expensive form of self-indulgence to pay for a course of treatment just for the pleasure of making up fancy tales about previous incarnations . |
| 9 | He says that sponsors would n't put up the cash to pay for a judge to travel abroad . |
| 10 | An allowance is made for this , but it is insufficient to pay for a school meal . |
| 11 | I had brought my bag with me and I left it in Armstrong along with my wallet , spare cash and watch , just taking enough to pay for a ticket and a towel . |
| 12 | ‘ And it came as a bit of a shock when Roger bought me some anti-wrinkle cream and volunteered to pay for a face-lift if I ever wanted one ! |
| 13 | That , I would say , is not a bad price to pay for a machine that is probably as fast as any I have played with . |
| 14 | A BLIND baby 's parents plan to sell their house to pay for a £15,000 operation in the US to restore his sight . |
| 15 | THE Newtown and District Cats Protection League is to raise £120 as a matter of urgency to pay for a specialist incubator to care for tiny kittens being regularly abandoned in the area . |
| 16 | Newsagent Jeff McKenna who runs a shop in Murray Street , Hartlepool , wants local traders and residents to club together to pay for a policeman to patrol their area exclusively . |
| 17 | ‘ Collectors are very active and are prepared to pay for a painting of a particular breed or artist . ’ |
| 18 | The security forces had been sent to the bank to escort Naim to a meeting with Khazen to discuss the bank 's refusal to advance money to pay for a contract to print 1,000,000 passports . |
| 19 | The P/E ratio may be interpreted as the price investors are willing to pay for a unit of earnings . |
| 20 | This ratio gives investors a common yardstick to measure the attitude of the market as a whole to all companies regardless of size or industry by reducing the comparison to the simple question ‘ How much is the market willing to pay for a unit of earnings ? ’ . |
| 21 | The £50,000 it raised last year will help to pay for a researcher at the Department of Cancer Studies at Birmingham University . |
| 22 | They 're the sort of thing that you 'll find used as backing music for the test card — and when you hear them you begin to have some sympathy for those who refuse to pay for a TV licence . |
| 23 | Fruit cages are relatively expensive and you have to consider whether it would be cheaper to buy from a pick-your-own farm than to pay for a fruit cage . |
| 24 | But instead of gaining , we stand to lose such workers to pay for a reorganisation that only Ian Lang ( the Scottish Secretary ) and a few of his supporters want . ’ |
| 25 | William Rathbone [ q.v. ] had offered to pay for a matron and trained nurses for three years , as an experiment , to be supplied by the Nightingale Fund , and Florence Nightingale had nominated Agnes Jones . |
| 26 | HOW much would you expect to pay for a dress modelled by Linda Evangelista ? £15,000 ? £25,000 ? |
| 27 | Troubled Telecom Eireann has abandoned a plan to build a new headquarters in Ballsbridge , Dublin , and the decision may cost the company more than £6m ; it bought the site for £9.4m in 1990 , but it is now worth only around £5m ; the company may also be required to pay for a government investigation into the purchase , which is also under scrutiny from the Fraud Office . |
| 28 | And £18.50 is enough to pay for a year 's supply of medicine and special foods for a sick child in San José . |
| 29 | As George loomed over her , she was planning in her mind when to take the sheets to the launderette , and whether or not to pay for a service wash . |
| 30 | Moreover , as we saw earlier , it is possible to argue that to pay for a service produces an equal exchange relationship . |