Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [modal v] pay for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each card will pay for two or three short calls or an eight-minute call home . |
| 2 | The Government are dragooning their troops to push the Bill through the House despite the fact that they do not have the faintest idea how they or British Rail will pay for it . |
| 3 | Green Believers in the rich world will not save their planet unless they guarantee the sustainability of poor-world economies : rich-world money must pay for poor-world industry to go green . |
| 4 | British industry must pay for water clean-up |
| 5 | ‘ Some bastard will pay for this ! ’ he hissed , the glint of madness in his eyes . |
| 6 | CASH raised at a display of medieval jousting will pay for a wildlife garden at a Suffolk school.Pupils , parents and staff from St Jame 's Middle School , in Bury St Edmunds , were entertained by members of the International Jousting Association on Saturday.Headteacher Bob Thackray said the group gave a demonstration of the skills and equipment needed to take part in jousting before the display itself got under way.He said entertainment also included a whole range of craft stalls , games and competitions , all organised by the pupils . |
| 7 | well it is vanity , their health 's not gon na improve by er , with their breasts enlarged so I do n't see why the National Health should pay for that , if they want that doing they should pay themselves , different in Claire 's case because she 's got one breast extremely small and one large one so she 's got a deformity , that 's different , correcting a deformity 's different , but if you just wan na go from a size thirty two to a thirty six B , then you should pay for it do n't you think ? |
| 8 | Out of this £53.40 , the older person must pay for their water rates , 20% of their community charge , heating , food , clothing and all other essential spending . |
| 9 | General Accident will pay for Emergency Treatment , as required by the Road Traffic Acts , resulting from an incident involving any motor cycle which this policy insures . |
| 10 | what I told Emmy though that that the other people advertising , they 're dealing in the wedding dresses , so one enquiry could pay for the whole lot , for her she 's dealing in nothing . |
| 11 | By all the gods that ever were , that bitch will pay for this ! ’ |
| 12 | of one year 's world military expenditure would pay for all the farm equipment needed to increase food production and to approach self-sufficiency in the food-deficit , low-income countries by 1990 . |
| 13 | There remained talk that the new king would pay for the destruction of the threshing machines which the agricultural workers believed lay at the root of their misery , and there were stories that the new police — the ‘ peelers ’ — had been armed with 6000 cutlasses from the Tower . |
| 14 | It wants the rail link to be built ( if nothing else , as a demonstration of the feasibility of privatising British Rail ) but Mrs Thatcher has stated quite clearly that ‘ users of the new line should pay for the full costs , including environmental costs ’ . |
| 15 | The lovely Hy would pay for her lobster thermidor . |
| 16 | Each generation of workers is in effect paying for its predecessors ' pensions , in the confident hope that the next generation will pay for theirs . |