Example sentences of "[noun] pay for [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The Roald Dahl Foundation has provided funds to pay for a paediatric epilepsy nurse at the unit .
2 It has also underlined the urgent need for sufficient Government funds to pay for a massive recovery programme .
3 With insufficient funds to pay for the whole tournament RWC readily accepted the Italian Federation 's offer to host the Qualifying Tournament .
4 A CROWD of people fought with police officers as they tried to stop a council bailiff taking a car to pay for an outstanding poll tax bill , a court was told yesterday .
5 Nevertheless , it 's not uncommon in the United States that families may , for example , have to sell their homes to pay for the medical treatment of a relative .
6 ‘ I do n't think it is fair to expect this lady to pay for a new lock .
7 The Mirror revealed last week that tax-payers paid for a luxury £3,000 bath installed in Diana 's private apartments at Kensington Palace .
8 ‘ Last year the Yorkshire committee paid for an extensive coaching programme for six weeks to help youngsters in the area who were predominantly of Pakistani and Indian background .
9 If the taxes that individuals pay for a local public good were higher as a consequence of higher income , the poor might enjoy a greater quantity of a local public good if they were resident in a high-income area .
10 Removal of the need to pay for a junior barrister as well as a QC in a substantial number of legal aid cases .
11 We often reached our overdraft limit because of a sticky cashflow — and after taking on a large mortgage to pay for a new factory we could n't raise any further borrowing for the second production line we needed much sooner than expected .
12 Pool boss Alan Murray is refusing to reveal the fee paid for the new man , but it is believed to be about £50,000 .
13 There is no golden rule as to what is the appropriate price to pay for a particular business .
14 What a price to pay for an Imperial whim .
15 But for months , Hay had been forcing Bryan to hand over hundreds of pounds to pay for an expensive lifestyle .
16 Old folk at the Wesley Court centre had collected hundreds of pounds to pay for the sing-a-long machine .
17 The Wellcome Foundation Trust , a charitable arm of the Wellcome drug company set up to fund medical research , has agreed in principle to a request to pay for the three-year investigation .
18 Measures passed in December include : a national drug company to buy from foreign companies and sell generic drugs without brand names ( at low prices ) ; a limit of three versions of any one drug to be on sale and a special tax on foreign drug firms to pay for the national company .
19 In 1987 a Sotheby 's appraiser valued the seriously damaged panels at $1.25 million , reaching that figure by dividing the auction price paid for a celebrated Thomas Hart Benton mural by three .
20 Most analysts are surprised at the price which CSR paid for the American ARC operations .
21 ‘ Look lady , for what other people pay for a one-way ticket to Chicago , you can travel anywhere Delta flies for a month . ’
22 The county council will have to ask colleges to bid for money on its behalf to pay for the vocational adult education courses it runs .
23 Even with the advantages of other income sources , studios depend on a few hits to pay for a large number of duds .
24 In turn , the wealth produced by this development has provided the means to pay for the specialized services which the professionals supply .
25 This is a penalty that Yugoslavia pays for the large share of its foreign trade which it carries on with countries having inconvertible currencies .
26 And your can use any number of eurocheques to pay for a particular item or service .
27 They get out the plastic to pay for the double-decker load of food .
28 American trains were classless , but none the less they had a wide range of different styles of accommodation , and the passengers paid for the luxury appropriate to their standing .
29 The Avery prize paid for a free place for four years at Redmond College , one of the best colleges in Canada .
30 Not only are peak users paying for the high marginal costs they impose , but also those users who would not mind consuming at a different time ( e.g. households with night storage heaters , who can use electricity at a time when marginal costs are low ) are induced by cheaper prices to switch to consuming at off-peak times .
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