Example sentences of "be pay a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It most be the case if you 're paying a profit to the sub-contractor . |
| 2 | So effectively we 're paying , whilst we never use the typing pool or the plan print room , we 're paying a proportion of those costs on a per capita basis |
| 3 | That 's because Ken forgot to photo photocopy the lyrics and they 're at his house , with some other stuff and they discussed what happened on T V last night , but Ethel starts to get really annoyed , seeing as she was the one turning up late , and like , she was on about , we 're paying a lot of money for this studio , let's use it . |
| 4 | They do n't want me paying d you know like their pension deferred , so if you 're serious about the fu pension fund managers paying , we 're talking y you know earlier you said four hundred and eighty million whatever it is lost , they 're paying a third , pension fund managers have got to come up with that sort of sum . |
| 5 | Yeah well that 's it , if your wages are only eight quid a week if you 're paying a month 's wa |
| 6 | It says for a quarter , which means you 're paying a quarter 's erm , like charge , which is s seven quid , but it 's only actually for a , a month . |
| 7 | ‘ You 're paid a retainer every month to keep me informed on developments in and around Beirut . |
| 8 | I 'd want to know how much the people who are working on it at all stages are paid , if they 're paid a living wage . |
| 9 | Even ( some might say especially ) in purely trading terms , Britain has been paying a very high price for her membership of the EEC . |
| 10 | To get a true feeling for the plan it should also be applied to the Principal because although you have been paying a fixed amount in each month the value of this has also decreased due to inflation . |
| 11 | We have been running an experiment in our laboratories , which erm , employs about eighteen hundred people , and I 've been paying a sum of money , so that they can have anybody with a problem in the laboratories , can have independent counselling , er , and it seems to me , I 've been lo reviewing it , measurement again , we 've just been running it for a year , and I 've been interested to see the types of problem they 've been taking outside . |
| 12 | The trustees of Carmel village hall , near Holywell , have been paying a nominal £1 rent for the last 21 years . |
| 13 | I 've been paying a full stamp since nineteen seventy four . |
| 14 | National Savings Certificates are paying a miserable 7.5 per cent tax free and no one should be holding any certificates which have reached maturity as the rate paid under general extension terms is only 5.1 per cent . |
| 15 | If you are paying a little more for the food you should enjoy it for what it is — avoid recipes which suggest such things as stuffing breasts of chicken with Parma ham mousse , then wrapping them in smoked salmon and poaching in wine before serving with a cream sauce . |
| 16 | When people must pay for services , regardless of whether they use them or not , they are paying a tax , period . |
| 17 | It is not easy to grasp the financial significance of organisations diluting their products , for instance , so that many millions of customers are paying a few pence extra for their goods . |
| 18 | Electricity consumers are paying a levy which goes to Nuclear Electric to help pay for the cost of removal and disposal of radioactive plant when existing nuclear power stations reach the end of their operating lives . |
| 19 | If it seems husband or children are paying a high price for the caring in other ways this is difficult . |
| 20 | And at Pilkingtons , if employees are paying a fixed rate of interest on their old mortgage and can not obtain such favourable terms on a new mortgage , the company makes annual lump sum payments in arrears amounting to the difference paid in interest on the capital sum outstanding on the original mortgage at the time of transfer . |
| 21 | But a lot of people buy a second hand car privately , and there are pages of these in the Nottingham Evening Post every day you know where people are paying a few hundred pounds , or it may be a few thousand pounds , for a second hand car . |
| 22 | Although trading throughout the Group is improving , we are paying a lot more bank interest this year as we borrowed £67 million to buy . |
| 23 | And er can can we scrape away to say Chairman that er , you know this , this , this situation er it is not to do with government policies , we are paying a very heavy price to this country for world recession as we have paid this very high price , very very large amounts of money that had to be used for people who are unfortunate enough to fall out of employment . |
| 24 | More than a hundred schoolchildren are paying a high price for the peace dividend … their school has been forced to close . |
| 25 | When all is said and done , 60pc of the stallholders are making a living from these sales and are paying a fee to the organisers for the space they have . |
| 26 | She explained : ‘ People are paying a lot of money for very little heat , they are living on low incomes or benefits in houses with no insulation and poor heating systems . |
| 27 | I do n't mind that so much though , 'cos they say we are paying a lot less back a month than other way . |
| 28 | My first impression was how well everything runs and in saying that I really am paying a tribute to previous chairmen . |
| 29 | And even over a period as long as 15 years we would be paying a lot less ( £184 millions ) than the £684 millions that will go next year to safeguard the Falkland Islands from the Argentinians — a matter which many ecologists see as a fight between two bald men over the possession of a comb . |
| 30 | It has plunged into the red , to the tune of £1.2m for the year to August 1992 , and will not be paying a dividend . |