Example sentences of "to pay for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having reached the limits of the contractual arrangements with local purchasing consortia ( DHA 's ) there 's simply no more money from that quarter to pay for non-emergency treatment or operations . |
| 2 | You do n't have to pay for parking or petrol and it 's much quicker than walking . |
| 3 | A promise to pay a sheriff in consideration of his performing his legal duty , a promise to pay for discharge from illegal arrest , are to be found in the books as promises which the law will not enforce : see the cases cited in paragraph 326 , footnote 2 of Halsbury 's Laws of England ( 4th ed. , 1974 ) , Vol. 9 . |
| 4 | HUNDREDS of millions of dollars of Iraqi oil money were ordered to be seized last night to pay for relief aid to the Kurds . |
| 5 | It accuses the company of imposing American business practices and ignoring ‘ traditional French negotiation ’ in refusing to pay for cost overruns . |
| 6 | It 's costing half a million pounds this year to pay for bed and breakfast . |
| 7 | " The emeralds fetched enough to gain the physician 's goodwill and to pay for board and passage back to England when I was ready . |
| 8 | No one wanted to pay for music ; the general feeling was that it should flow free from the celestial spheres . |
| 9 | But this was a small price to pay for insurance against a leadership sell-out . |
| 10 | In any event , if great prominence came to be given to APR , many people could be misled about the comparative value of competing credit arrangements ; partly because our calculations show that small and sometimes insignificant differences in what the buyer actually has to pay for credit can make for huge and therefore misleadingly imposing differences in APR ; partly because it will tend to make longer-term borrowing look more attractive than shorter-term borrowing even when ( given that the great majority of people prefer to pay off their debts as quickly as possible ) this may not be best for people . |
| 11 | People who get attendance allowance get that allowance to pay for attendance , and home help is attendance . |
| 12 | Oil production , the chief earner of money to pay for grain and other imports , is falling sharply . |
| 13 | But the daughter 's silence on this matter is a measure of the price you have to pay for survival . |
| 14 | Ministers will clash over how far they intend to pay for capital spending projects by freezing the pay of public sector workers like teachers , nurses and doctors , or limiting rises to two per cent . |
| 15 | Local authorities are free to pay for capital spending from revenue and thus balance the benefits of capital and revenue spending against each other . |
| 16 | To lose the dress , the white Peruvian wedding dress , was a small price to pay for escape . |
| 17 | However , we urgently need around £2,000 to £2,500 to get it printed and to pay for postage . |
| 18 | However , we urgently need around £2,000 to £2,500 to get it printed and to pay for postage . |
| 19 | It 's an immense price to pay for hardwood doors , windows , coffins and plywood . |
| 20 | They will be usable to pay for child care in a range of places — workplace , local authority or private nurseries , play groups or by individual qualified carers . |
| 21 | It also defends redistributive taxation in order to pay for child benefit and pensions and calls for strengthening the trade union link with the party . |
| 22 | Many health authorities have been refusing to pay for treatment , arguing that divers should take out decompression insurance . |
| 23 | If I , a British citizen , fall ill in the United States I will have to pay for treatment . |
| 24 | Andrew Hemmings who manages an alcohol recovery project in Manchester for Turning Point , said people had lost heart and started to drink again because of delays in establishing whether the local authority was going to pay for treatment . |
| 25 | Pensioners and law abiding citizens are being made to pay for council work that never gets done , poor street lighting that never gets fixed , empty houses being left to vandals , cemeteries neglected . |
| 26 | BR says the increases — ranging from three to nearly nine percent — are needed to pay for service improvements . |
| 27 | This , too , had been predicted in The Edge of the Sword : The price they [ men of character ] have to pay for leadership is unceasing self-discipline , the constant taking of risks , and a perpetual inner struggle . |
| 28 | If we wished to pay for welfare in a way that was less burdensome on the poor without being massively destructive to the higher income groups what might be done ? |
| 29 | The tax burden imposed on workers to pay for welfare services opened up a gap between the cost of labour to the employer ( the wage gross of employers ' and employees ' social security contributions and of income tax ) and what the worker received ( the wage net of all these deductions ) . |
| 30 | It is difficult to move out from home , to pay for furniture and heat , so young people are almost fated not to get enough money . |