Example sentences of "[modal v] [vb infin] pay a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Good companies knew the value of training and built in funding for that to their budgets ; those that did not should have to pay a levy .
2 You must have paid a fortune for that . ’
3 Well she must have paid a bit off .
4 Er yes , I s suspect they must have paid a lot of money to have that done too .
5 He 'll have to pay a fine before he can pick up for it , this is Joanne , I do n't but he must he must er be up to something .
6 But if you 're wrong , you 'll have to pay a fee of around £30 .
7 As in war , if you were captured you lost your horse and armour to the victorious knight and you might have to pay a ransom as well .
8 As an alternative , a company may elect to pay a tax ‘ fee ’ of M$20,000 irrespective of profits .
9 I am not a child to be frightened by a resolution of a board of directors , or to be soothed by the present of shares ( each carrying 10 liability ) in a company which has been losing money every year from its commencement , and which nothing short of a miracle could make pay a dividend as hitherto managed ; neither is my position in Scientific Circles here such as to render my retaining the editorship of any advantage to me — indeed , I am vain enough to think that I confer more than I receive .
10 I 'd like to pay a tribute to the courage of our people there , both the indigenous er workers for the fund and the ex-pats who 've gone out there to lead that work .
11 So you could have paid a company five hundred , six hundred pounds , and have no surrender value whatsoever , in the first two years , cos they 'll take their charges out on a twenty year , a twenty five year contract .
12 But she wanted a man , so she knew she 'd have to pay a price , any price .
13 She was told she 'd have to pay a £116 a week for it because she 's in a private nursing home .
14 But if they had a doctor you see , they 'd have to pay a pound .
15 Yeah so I mean really the twenty five pound a week she 's not paying her mother she could go to pay a mortgage .
16 None the less , the state may have to pay a price to get its own way .
17 Under the authorship of one of the Institute 's latest recruits , public transport travel consultant Barry S. Doe MCIT , ‘ Tickets , Trains and Timetables : The Impact of Privatisation on the Rail Network ’ warns that the country is in danger of ending up with an airline style ticketing system in which passengers wishing to travel outwards on one franchisee 's train but return home on another 's may have to pay a supplement up to the value of the full ‘ standard ’ fare .
18 In this context I would like to pay a tribute to the British officers who served Burma during the years it was part of the Commonwealth .
19 There are reduced rates for parties booked in advance , so maybe your Pack would like to pay a visit .
20 If the bill became law , manufacturers using chemicals obtained from local species would have to pay a royalty to the state .
21 To stop " false tourism " , visitors from certain countries would have to pay a deposit on entering France and to undergo an AIDS test .
22 Sutton Hall said he would have to pay a carriage fee of £68 ; his cheque was cashed last August , but he still has n't been sent the units .
23 It means around 24 million current account holders would have to pay a fee every time they drew a cheque or used a hole-in-the-wall cash machine .
24 There was love in that sofa , I said to George , love for which the Morrisons would have paid a fortune if he had n't been so prissy .
25 Many a woman would have paid a fortune to have had his eyelashes , thick , long and curling .
26 In most circumstances you will want to pay a language helper for his/her work , on a scale that is comparable with the local situation .
27 They will consider paying a bit more for a premium service .
28 In the interim , producers and imported will have to pay a levy of 100 crowns ( U$3.30 ) for every kilogram to the State Fund for the Environment .
29 Others will have to pay a proportion of the tax , and in London and Aberdeen that proportion could well be high .
30 Tyne Tees , after profits of just £200,000 , will pay £15m and both will have to pay a percentage of their advertising revenue on top of that .
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