Example sentences of "[art] [noun] paid for the " in BNC.

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1 An order requiring the third , fourth and fifth defendants , who were not parties to any Euramco transaction and who did not receive anything under any Euramco transaction , to repay the investors the money paid for the Euramco shares , is , he submits , a compensatory order , not a restitutionary one .
2 The money paid for the headstone and Mr and Mrs McDermott 's appreciation is obvious in the inscription at the bottom which reads : ‘ Donated by the people of Northern Ireland ’ .
3 The availability of good roads in Central and Mediterranean Europe , during the first half of the 19th century , made possible sales contracts under which the buyer paid for the goods upon the seller 's tender of the bill of lading at the port of shipment or transhipment .
4 Finally , in this small sample , a note might be made of the £520 paid for the Descriptive Bibliography of the Books Printed at the Ashendene Press 1895–1935 , published in an edition of 390 copies signed by C. H. St. J. Hornby .
5 The £9,500 paid for the stallion was far beyond the previous record for a Clydesdale .
6 And the brothel-owners paid for the restoration of village temples and schools to help keep up the supply of young girls .
7 Pool boss Alan Murray is refusing to reveal the fee paid for the new man , but it is believed to be about £50,000 .
8 The price paid for the acquisition , including a fruit plant near Valencia and a bottling plant in Barcelona , appears high since the businesses being acquired had sales of £29.6m in 1988 and trading profits of £2.2m , implying a p/e on conventional terms of almost 30 .
9 Second , the price paid for the acquisition must not be excessive .
10 Since Hume , philosophers of an empiricist turn of mind have tended to suppose that any ‘ knowledge ’ obtained by a priori perception of connections between ideas is trifling and empty of content , and that the price paid for the necessity and certainty of such ‘ knowledge ’ is a loss of information .
11 Junkies have always accepted constipation as part of the price paid for the ‘ high ’ offered by opiate drugs like heroin .
12 The voices were , in one sense , the price paid for the saeva indignatio that had fired his greatest fiction .
13 No one knows how big the contribution was and the price paid for the electricity is being kept secret .
14 Hence , time value is the price paid for the chance that the share price will move sufficiently during the following 5 weeks in order to make the investment profitable .
15 In the case of net realizable value the tutor can use this as an opportunity to explain that there are costs associated with sale which will mean that this value is lower than the price paid for the tables and chairs .
16 If the price paid for the business has been calculated on turnover it is important to the purchaser that he benefits from all existing contracts .
17 The purchaser and vendor will need to negotiate how the assumption of debtors and creditors is to be reflected in the price paid for the business .
18 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 .
19 This was reflected in the prices paid for the average in-calf and maiden heifer , which at times made no more than a good commercial first-calver at Carlisle .
20 While a splendid Gris , the 1912 gouache-pastel-charcoal ‘ Nature morte avec bouteille et cigares ’ ( est. $300,000–400,000 ) inexplicably sold under-estimate for $280,000 ( £155,600 ) the work 's severity may not have endeared it to many people the biggest surprise was the prices paid for the Legers , which came from all points of the artist 's career .
21 Once the offer period has commenced , dealings by the offeror or the target ( or any of their associates ) in the target 's securities and ( in the case of a securities exchange offer only ) the offeror 's securities must generally be disclosed by 12 noon on the business day following the dealing ; details of the prices paid for the securities must also be disclosed ( Rule 8 ) .
22 Television dollars have in the past paid for the rising salaries but today 's bidders seem determined to pay less than the $1.45 billion CBS and ESPN bid in winning the current four-year deal for network and cable rights .
23 Once the warrant expires unexercised the amount paid for the warrant accrues to the benefit of the shareholders .
24 Remember that the insurance valuation is not the amount paid for the rug , but the amount that would probably be required to replace it and , in practice , is rather more than the price originally paid .
25 Fashion garments may and do cost a great deal , but break down the component parts of that price and the sum paid for the natural fibre fabrics begins to look a little odd .
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