Example sentences of "to pay for [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The season ticket agreement John Horscroft and Pat Shilland hope climbers will avidly welcome ever more firmly establishes that climbers should be asked to pay for their climbing . |
| 2 | Often they 're made to pay for their release and so must steal to get this money , ’ said Mr Santos . |
| 3 | I regard the whole idea of privatising the NHS as quite daft - impossible in a universal service offering the full range of service to every citizen of all ages and states of health without any of them having to pay for their medical treatment . ’ |
| 4 | You could at least give them about £100 to pay for their expense . |
| 5 | In that way , the rich polluters would be obliged to pay for their excesses through a transfer of technology and wealth to the poor , who in time would come under pressure themselves not to allow their emissions to reach levels which would force them to buy permits . |
| 6 | Other European countries will need to start raising taxes sooner to pay for their old people . |
| 7 | under him , yet in practice he appointed an excessive number of them ; he compelled them to pay for their appointments , and in some cases to make annual payments to him afterwards . |
| 8 | She owned farms locally and spent her life worrying about Christian slaves in Turkey , for on her death she left the farms to pay for their ransom . |
| 9 | The report says many of the tests and concepts used by alternative practitioners are ‘ speculative ’ and there is no justification to pay for their treatments . |
| 10 | Making the investment needed to end the recession , using the money borrowed by the Conservatives to pay for their pre-election tax cuts . |
| 11 | This proposal has been partially absorbed in a different suggestion , that schools may decide for themselves whether or not to dissociate themselves from their Local Authority and become independent , relying on the DES to pay for their pupils by direct grant . |
| 12 | They think about how much it will cost them to pay for their land and their buildings , their seeds and young livestock , their machinery and the wages of their farm labourers . |
| 13 | It certainly seems to be the case that many of those who opt to pay for their children 's education are attracted by the narrow social intake of most private schools . |
| 14 | But schools , which will have to pay for their training needs from delegated budgets , will have to prioritise those needs and devise means of ensuring that they are properly met . |
| 15 | Terminals will cost around £500 ; on top of this , subscribers will have to pay for their information at the rate of about £30 per month . |
| 16 | But there was a price to pay for their pleasures . |
| 17 | On more than occasion New Scientist — and at least one science editor from a leading newspaper , to our knowledge — has told the BA that the press can afford to pay for their own drinks and for those of their less wealthy friends who do n't have the same access to expenses . |
| 18 | If , as seems likely , drug makers , food companies and others who are obliged to have their new products approved by the US Food and Drug Administration are going to be asked to pay for their vetting , it seems only reasonable that they should have a say in how it is run . |
| 19 | For a variety of reasons the European nobility of the eleventh and twelfth centuries were coming increasingly to need money : to indulge their taste in war , to meet a higher standard of living , to pay for their ever more costly gifts to their friends , their superiors and inferiors , and above all to the Church , to indulge their taste for extravagant building , and to give dowries to their daughters and patrimonies to their younger sons . |
| 20 | In August 1717 Alberoni began trying to persuade Charles XII of Sweden and Czar peter the Great of Russia to sink their differences in return for a present of £100,000 from the Pretender , to pay for their armies to restore him to his throne . |
| 21 | More would have gone if there had been money to pay for their fares . |
| 22 | When Arthur Wellesley was in command of the British troops in Spain he refused to pay for their upkeep by pillage and plunder . |
| 23 | On the 5th January 1733 , Mrs Bridget Briggs in her will left certain properties in the vicinity of Sheffield , two thirds of the rent of which were to build a schoolhouse and school to educate ten poor boys and ten poor girls of Sproatley ; other children were to be educated there , but to pay for their instruction . |
| 24 | The Council wished to borrow £55,000 to pay for their construction , and the tramways were to be leased to the B.E.T . |
| 25 | So , how much are accountants prepared to pay for their fortnight in the sun ? |
| 26 | Ron Thomson , general manager of Ling Trust , a Colchester-based community care charity , argues that the continued influence of health authority managers in trust affairs invalidated claims of social security cash made by residents to pay for their care . |
| 27 | Now they expect responsible customers to pay for their folly . |
| 28 | They might have enough money of their own to pay for their care and never come into contact with a care manager . |
| 29 | Again it was argued that the poor should not have to pay for their own ‘ welfare ’ out of hard-earned incomes . |
| 30 | In the middle of November the Eliots travelled to America , where he made five public appearances in order to pay for their forthcoming holiday in Barbados after Christmas — as long as he could " hobble up a stage " , he could still pay for such trips . |