Example sentences of "[noun sg] pays for " in BNC.
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| 1 | To suggest that the signs are up in order to show a ‘ vigorous contempt for the people whose productive labour pays for all their intellectual endeavour ’ is not only wrong but reinforces the old stereotype of ‘ them and us ’ which at least some colleges are trying to break down . |
| 2 | Crime pays for killers |
| 3 | An old lady pays for the loaf and ½ ; lb butter in her wire basket , but you notice a jar of your own brand coffee in her shopping bag . |
| 4 | Some recycling pays for itself and always has done . |
| 5 | Although the council pays for pupils ' season tickets , parents are entitled to the refund to help cover the costs of alternative transport . |
| 6 | If you can tell him the whole town pays for itself , that 's far more impressive than — ’ |
| 7 | Councillor Begg explains more about what services this new tax pays for … |
| 8 | Subjectivity and personal involvement are part of the price the social anthropologist pays for his most cherished and characteristic research strategy which , within the limits we have indicated , we can succinctly describe as ‘ going native ’ . |
| 9 | And national taxation pays for grants and subsidies to owners and landowners . |
| 10 | For example , Brown & Root pays for estate agents ' fees and legal charges up to a maximum of three months ' gross salary . |
| 11 | This means that we can use them for the riding school , muck the out etc … and the owner pays for its feed . |
| 12 | ‘ You should remember , miss , ’ said Bessie , ‘ that your aunt pays for your food and clothes , and you should be grateful . |
| 13 | The pater pays for holidays and he 's about to buy her a car , though she can borrow the family car and chauffeur whenever he does n't want them . |
| 14 | Each voucher pays for a room with private bath or shower , continental breakfast , hotel service charges and taxes . |
| 15 | ‘ That 's O.K. , the firm pays for my taxi , ’ I babbled , holding it out to him between trembling fingers as if it were a dead insect . |
| 16 | But the government pays for repairing roads ; other road-users pay for the delays caused by congestion ; society at large pays for air pollution , noise and road accidents . |
| 17 | Even where the government pays for the mechanical means of conservation entirely ( and thus avoids the problems of a lack of capital or labour on the part of the farmer , his inability to forgo food crops for a season , and the reduction of his perception of the risks involved even if his private resources are sufficient ) , such an act engenders apathy on the part of the farmer , who regards the work as belonging to the state ( FAO 1966 : 172 , for a project in Morocco ) . |
| 18 | For these schools , the government pays for maintenance , teachers ' salaries and equipment . |
| 19 | Well I , I take the implicit point that erm we 're all suffering cuts throughout the country , therefore why should n't higher education suffer similar cuts , but of course , higher education is in a different category to erm many other fields that the government pays for and sponsors , in that higher education is investment in the future , and therefore , if Britain is to survive erm as a , a nation of erm of some economic standing , is to well in the national , in the international stakes , then we must be innovative , we must create new things , and we must erm in , in that , to do that we must invest very strongly in higher education . |
| 20 | In a new scheme , supported by Blue Cross Animal Care , Age Concern Pet Insurance pays for cost and treatment in excess of 10 per cent ( minimum £20 ) and up to a total of £1,250 for each accident and illness . |
| 21 | We 're covered then , the insurance pays for whatever the cover is , er and er that 's how it works . |
| 22 | The price the capitalist pays for labour is still only £10 per day but the value of commodities produced by labour is now £20 per day . |
| 23 | Currently , a Home Office grant pays for the schemes ' managers and co-ordinators . |
| 24 | ‘ Knock-for-knock ’ , where an insurer pays for damage to the car covered under its policy — regardless of blame , has become unpopular as it passes on the costs of settling claims to comprehensive policy holders . |
| 25 | Offer We have a complete Cellnet Lifetime package to give away ( all the winner pays for is outgoing calls ) . |
| 26 | The price the user pays for this approach is not just financial , programs of this type require large amounts of memory and hard disk systems to operate properly . |
| 27 | Thus if a seller entrusts identified and appropriated goods to a carrier with instructions that they be conveyed to the buyer but not handed over until the buyer has paid , the goods will remain the seller 's property until the buyer pays for them . |
| 28 | It might be even better to write the clause as : If the Buyer fails to pay for any delivery in accordance with the terms of this contract , the Seller may withhold further deliveries until the Buyer pays for the deliveries already made . |
| 29 | 2 To ensure that the buyer pays for the goods/services supplied . |
| 30 | This money pays for villages and towns in Africa , Asia to have clean , portable water . |