Example sentences of "paid [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you have paid money to Midland Life before the commencement date and the offer is then withdrawn your money will be returned with interest . |
| 2 | A company like BP has paid money to the Welsh water authority in order to be able to discharge through the authority 's outfall , and it will not be until later this year that the public will be able to find out the results of any testing . |
| 3 | Could Corosini have paid money to the wrong person ? |
| 4 | The Employment Department took the view that the TEC wrongly paid money to employers who had been running their own training schemes outside the Youth Training orbit ; this enabled the TEC to meet its government-imposed target of training weeks . |
| 5 | A Sunday newspaper said Spiro had claimed to have paid money to Terry Waite 's kidnappers on behalf of the British Government . |
| 6 | A Sunday newspaper said Spiro had claimed to have paid money to Terry Waite 's kidnappers on behalf of the British Government . |
| 7 | What they 're defending is their all-expenses paid trips to the U.S. of A for next year 's World Cup junket . |
| 8 | Since 1824 , Clerical Medical has paid bonuses to their with-profits policyholders for every year without a break . |
| 9 | As experts in specialist investment , pensions and life assurance this continuing success has meant that Clerical Medical has paid bonuses to its with-profits policyholders for every year since 1824 . |
| 10 | As experts in specialist investment , pensions and life assurance , this continuing success has meant that Clerical Medical has paid bonuses to its with-profits policyholders since 1824 . |
| 11 | About a mile away , at Sheridan Circle , our director , the former Chilean foreign minister Orlando Leteleir and Ronni Moffitt , an institute worker , were killed in October 1976 by a car bomb planted by right-wing Cubans in the pay of the Pinochet secret police : only in the past few months has the Chilean government paid compensation to their families . |
| 12 | Other prisons employ their own prison medical service staff — doctors are paid £26,622 to £36,178 , with a top rate of £42,724 , plus London weighting . |
| 13 | Waldheim , a former UN Secretary-General , had been banned from entering the United States , and during his term as President had only paid visits to various Islamic countries ( including Iraq and Iran — see pp. 37759 ; 38309 ) and to the Vatican . |
| 14 | They came to an iron door that immediately opened onto a marvellous hall where many servants paid honour to the shepherd . |
| 15 | If Honderich had paid attention to clues like this he could have subjected the credentials of the new right to closer scrutiny and interrogated the development of Conservative thought with much greater sensitivity . |
| 16 | Alessandra Mussolini , granddaughter of Il Duce , has been a hit with photographers , although only the foreign press have paid attention to her pretence to campaign for the neo-fascist party . |
| 17 | When the Malay leaders of Malaysia assert that the Malays are ‘ bumiputras ’ , sons of the soil , and therefore to be accorded privileges as against the Chinese and Indian Malaysians , only the unkind would point out that the Malays were also immigrants from an earlier period , and that no-one has paid attention to the claims of the real indigenous peoples , the Dayak and other tribes of the forestland . |
| 18 | Listeners paid attention to , and remembered , those items that seemed significant to them . |
| 19 | I had no idea that being in a commercial rock band would be like this , because I 've never paid attention to other commercial rock bands . |
| 20 | The papers paid attention to the detail of the knives and sawn-off shot guns he used to threaten and wound his victims , the hood he used to disguise his appearance , his ‘ lair ’ and other related aspects of how he managed to get away with his exploits . |
| 21 | The Goldsmiths ' Company may also have paid attention to other claims upon them . |
| 22 | A self-uglifying expression of humility — plus an elaborate show of stealthiness which is as good as saying ‘ Yes , I am late — and please pay attention to my performance of humbly not wishing to be paid attention to ’ , i.e. Here 's me entering as unostentatiously as I know how — so you can see how much I regret my rudeness ! ’ |
| 23 | True to the director 's stated objective , all the analyses and policy options stemming from them have paid attention to the effects of the various proposals on access to services and costs borne by patients . |
| 24 | But if Posidonius had paid attention to the structure of Italy before or after the Social War we should know it from Strabo who used his work extensively . |
| 25 | Taking the Report as a whole , the Commission has naturally paid attention to the different interests of those involved in the day to day running of the criminal justice system . |
| 26 | If Conservative Members paid attention to the issue they would know that my hon. Friend the Member for Livingston ( Mr. Cook ) repudiated the threat last week . |
| 27 | perhaps in six months or in sixty years erm facing the same kind of problem again er I , I can erm I have close experience with a situation on my , on my own patch which rises from time to time an and is most unpleasant for the people in and it goes back if I might say so an and therefore the planning considerations that have been mentioned need to be paid attention to . |
| 28 | They have paid attention to the academic , moral and philosophical roots of the movement . |
| 29 | Those companies propose to reduce the hours of the already not well paid workers to below the level where those companies have to pay national insurance and take responsibility for pension payments , sick pay and holiday pay — all the things that we used quaintly to associate with civilisation . |
| 30 | Protestants who should have known better paid tribute to the Antichrist , the spiritual leader of the disloyal Catholics . |