Example sentences of "[num] [prep] taxpayer ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | The poll tax has wasted £14 billion of taxpayers ' money , led to cuts in services and jobs , caused great hardship for thousands of people , and has led to a general breakdown in law and order . |
| 2 | UNIVERSITY administrators who wasted £11.3 million of taxpayers ' money by re-employing more than 200 redundant academics given ‘ golden goodbyes ’ averaging £80,000 each are to be summoned by the Commons public accounts committee to explain their mistakes . |
| 3 | Today the Government , of course , still denies legal responsibility — presumably to frighten off any other claimants — but will dispense £150 million of taxpayers ' money to com pensate investors of both the Barlow Clowes UK fund and the Gibraltar based international fund ( which is n't covered by the Department of Trade 's writ and which offered rates of interest on allegedly gilt-edged stock which were not possible with out tax avoidance ) . |
| 4 | Mr Maclean said the use of £2.3 million of taxpayers ' money in buying Orford Ness seemed a lot , but he was sure that future historians would regard it as money well spent . |
| 5 | In theory , the scheme is meant to help pupils who would otherwise be unable to do so to benefit from education at an independent school , but Janet Finch argues that past experience of the direct grant system ‘ would lead one to suppose that many beneficiaries of such a scheme will be middle-class children ’ .24 In 1986–7 about 24,500 pupils attended independent schools under the Assisted Places Scheme in England alone , and this transferred £43 million of taxpayers ' money to independent schools . |
| 6 | If it were true , why am I , as responsible Minister , spending £567 million of taxpayers ' money over the current public expenditure survey round on regional policy ? |
| 7 | Will he also condemn the scandalous proposal that when the PSA is privatised , up to £85 million of taxpayers ' money should be handed over by the Government to Tarmac , which will take it over , so that any proposed redundancies of men and women in the PSA will be paid not by the privatising company but by the taxpayer ? |
| 8 | Questions could be asked about the failure of the NRA to include in its cost estimate the sum of £6 million of taxpayers ' money that it has already spent promoting the scheme , or it could consider any of the indirect costs arising from the construction of the channel . |
| 9 | In summary , this is a massive infrastructure project on which it is proposed to spend £58 million of taxpayers ' money . |
| 10 | The Government have clearly shown during their 12 years in office that , whatever the Opposition may say , one does not spend £2 million of taxpayers ' money every working day with the objective of closing something down . |