Example sentences of "to pay [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We might even feel that any financial loss is a small price to pay for the satisfaction which woodturning brings . |
| 2 | When there is insufficient money in the estate of the deceased person to pay for the funeral and if the person arranging the funeral is likely to have a problem meeting the cost then sections 4 and 5 of this factsheet should be read before making any arrangements . |
| 3 | If relatives can not afford to pay for the funeral they should seek assistance from the Department of Social Security ( DSS ) ( see Section 4 ) . |
| 4 | They will only get help if they can not easily realise savings of the person who died to pay for the bill , or if paying for the bill brought their own family savings below £500 . |
| 5 | If savings have been set aside for a funeral , and would now pay for one at current prices , that money , invested at the best rate of interest , may be enough to pay for the funeral when it occurs . |
| 6 | Virginia Bottomley , Minister for Health , has announced that some people on low incomes who also find it difficult to visit their local opticians will be able to get help from the NHS to pay for the optician to visit them at home . |
| 7 | It seems odd that I should be expected to pay for the privilege of assisting in this way , in particular , as I doubt that these changes will alleviate the falling numbers of applicants to medical schools in the UK . |
| 8 | You can add to that an extra billion to pay for the interest in their borrowing . |
| 9 | Dr Higgs is the only one left for those who believe someone must be seen to pay for the Cleveland controversy . |
| 10 | A presumed member of Hizbollah , Ali Mohamed Hariri , is in prison in Switzerland for the murder of a Frenchman on board an Air Afrique airliner during a hijack attempt which ended in Geneva in July 1987 — and Hariri 's release is said here to have been part of the price which the Swiss government secretly agreed to pay for the release of Peter Winkler , the Red Cross official who was freed in Sidon 10 months ago . |
| 11 | The Wellcome Foundation Trust , a charitable arm of the Wellcome drug company set up to fund medical research , has agreed in principle to a request to pay for the three-year investigation . |
| 12 | It could not have happened unless the Church had helped to pay for the heating . |
| 13 | As long as the public is not prevented from choosing one thing in preference to another , people will express their choice by what they are prepared to pay for the one compared with the other . |
| 14 | He has a well-paid job but he expects her to pay for the family car |
| 15 | Thankfully , the damage was minimal and she was able to return to barracks knowing that the Battalion Welfare Fund would be able to pay for the cost of the necessary repairs . |
| 16 | A compromise was eventually negotiated in which the space to the west of the building , originally planned as a garden , was devoted instead to a car park and to compensate for this loss of amenity , the Historic Buildings Council then agreed to pay for the provision of the jetty and roof garden . |
| 17 | They first extracted a written guarantee of good conduct from her uncle and aunt , who are now required to pay for the medical treatment which , if successful , will allow the woman to return to prison . |
| 18 | That should change with the decision reached two weeks ago that Sheffield will have to pay for the host broadcasting operation of television . |
| 19 | Mrs Thatcher will have to be satisfied with the assurances she will receive from Mr Bush , who will tell her that , since defence cuts are politically inevitable , it is far better for modest and planned reductions to be proposed by his cabinet and the Pentagon than for swingeing cuts to be imposed by the US Congress , which is already chafing at the thought of the US budget deficit being deepened to pay for the defence of the wealthy Europeans . |
| 20 | Mr Karel Van Miert , the Transport Commissioner , is asking member governments to approve a plan which would leave passenger services largely in the hands of state-owned monopolies but open up freight services to competition by permitting private operators to pay for the use of publicly-owned tracks . |
| 21 | Industry will have to pay for the licences they are granted and will have a duty to reduce pollution and render their discharges harmless . |
| 22 | Of course , Ralph would want his bit out of that as well , so obviously we were n't getting enough to pay for the rent and food , which Graham and myself desperately needed . |
| 23 | The council was doubtful whether the public would want to pay for the changes . |
| 24 | These would have to be raised to pay for the damage they caused in acid rain and global warming . |
| 25 | Thors was a small price to pay for the risks that Britain would be running by having American missiles deployed in her crowded islands . |
| 26 | Unless Mr Gorbachev can persuade — or force — Russia and others to back down , he will either have to print roubles even more furiously than before ( result : hyperinflation ) , or else he will be unable to pay for the huge central bureaucracy and , more seriously , for the army . |
| 27 | Businesses will then put up prices to pay for the wage increases . |
| 28 | If Britain guarantees that the Hong Kong government 's financial reserves will be above a certain level come 1997 , and if the airport 's costs are below a certain level , and if Hong Kong neither raises taxes nor issues debt to pay for the airport , and if China has a say not just on the airport but also on other franchises Hong Kong grants and , come to think of it , on other ‘ important ’ matters — if all that is conceded , then Hong Kong can have its airport . |
| 29 | Mr Greenspan also said it would be wrong to pay for the war with a tax increase or surcharge . |
| 30 | Israel felt emboldened to ask America for massive extra economic aid to pay for the damage caused by the state of emergency , the prolonged military alert — and the arrival of hundreds of thousands of new Soviet Jewish immigrants . |