Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] to pay [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 've used , er , er , an underspend from this year rolled over , but you have n't increased the base budget to pay for the projection costs which came from erm , this year 's budget . |
| 2 | So er I mean you can actually say to your children , well okay you know if I , we die tomorrow in a road accident , there 'd be a liability to tax , erm and say the estate 's worth two hundred thousand , then fifty thousand would be liable to tax at forty pence in the pound , so there 'd be twenty thousand pound debt to pay to the revenue . |
| 3 | Hundred and fifty thousand pounds is the exempt limit so there 's no inheritance tax to pay on the death of the survivor . |
| 4 | If Britain guarantees that the Hong Kong government 's financial reserves will be above a certain level come 1997 , and if the airport 's costs are below a certain level , and if Hong Kong neither raises taxes nor issues debt to pay for the airport , and if China has a say not just on the airport but also on other franchises Hong Kong grants and , come to think of it , on other ‘ important ’ matters — if all that is conceded , then Hong Kong can have its airport . |
| 5 | During the uneasy alliance following ‘ Bloody Mary 's ’ marriage into the Spanish royal family , some Spanish ships carrying gold bullion to pay for the upkeep of their garrisons in the Netherlands had taken refuge from French privateers in these two Cornish ports . |