Example sentences of "[adj] pay [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Was there anything like erm redundancy money or anything like that payed at that time when the place |
2 | of people are prepared to pay for built-in car security features . |
3 | The fourth point is : ’ Why should a Health Authority turn down an unproven treatment when it holds contracts with Homeopathic Hospitals and is prepared to pay for such treatment to be carried out ? ’ |
4 | I am prepared to pay for such information and pay well . |
5 | On the strength of those assurances , the commission says it is now prepared to pay for initial design work at both schools , starting next month . |
6 | ‘ People are prepared to pay for cleaner water but they are reluctant to finance salary increases of several hundred per cent for chairmen who have been handed the privatisation jackpot . ’ |
7 | Fish firm wants French to pay for ruined cargo |
8 | Wendling had a Dutch friend , an amateur flautist , who was willing to pay for some flute music — three concertos and two quartets . |
9 | Tom Bowhill Restorations in Cheltenham is thriving , despite the recession , proving that people are still willing to pay for true craftsmanship . |
10 | A mobile eye screening unit could help overcome this problem , and fundholding general practitioners may be willing to pay for this service . |
11 | They just are n't willing to pay for this type of product as it takes to long to film . ’ |
12 | In that case , every big country apart from Britain will need to raise its taxes ( or cut other spending ) by an average of 3% of GDP by 2030 to pay for extra spending on old people and to prevent a rise in the ratio of public debt to GDP . |
13 | So there is no doubt about the ability of the Japanese to pay for this information and knowledge , nor about their strong motivation for acquiring it . |
14 | MONEY handed to Nuclear Electric to pay for future decommissioning work should not be used to finance a Sizewell C power station , environment campaigners claimed yesterday . |
15 | We will all pay for this stagnation . |
16 | I have no funds to be able to pay for such material , so people would have to realise that no payment could be made — their only reward would be possibly seeing their work in print . |
17 | I would say the thing that kept me sane during that period was the fact that I had a part time job , and erm we were able to pay for some home help . |
18 | For example , there are dual currency bonds , where the coupon payments are in one currency and the redemption proceeds are in another ; currency change bonds , where coupons are first paid in one currency and then in another ; deferred coupon bonds , where there is a delay in the payment of the first coupon ; multiple coupon bonds , where the coupon payments change over the life of the bond ( although in a predetermined manner ) , fixed-then-floating bonds , where the coupons change from being fixed rate to floating rate ; floating-then-zero bonds , where the bonds change from being floating-rate coupon bonds to zero-coupon bonds ; and missing coupon bonds , where a coupon payment is missed whenever a dividend payment on the issuing corporation 's shares are missed . |
19 | It was still possible to pay for private treatment in the health service , but for most people it was a case of having treatment " on the national health . " |
20 | Beginning in 1991 Vietnam was also obliged to pay in hard currency , rather than in roubles , at international prices , for goods imported from the Soviet Union . |
21 | In September 1986 the Iranians paid $7 million direct into one of North 's three Swiss bank accounts and North drew out $2 million to pay for 500 TOW missiles that were flown direct from America to Iran ( which shows the true price of TOW missiles compared to what Iran was being charged ) . |
22 | As someone interested in trying to promote industrial regeneration and further growth in the north-east does my hon. Friend agree that the additional burdens laid on businesses in regions such as his own by the absurd idea of the imposition of a regional tier of government and the increased taxation necessary to pay for that tier would have an adverse effect on local business , would increase costs , would reduce competitiveness and would help to drive business and jobs away from his region ? |
23 | The value of an officer 's place in an East Indiaman did not lie in the salary , which was only marginally more attractive than that paid to other ship 's officers . |
24 | According to Parks official , Dr Mike Kock , the 24 kg of horn cut during the operation could raise $500,000 , sufficient to pay for 650 game scouts for a year . |