Example sentences of "we are paying " in BNC.

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1 We are paying the price , indirectly , for the reunification of Germany , which has fuelled inflation and pushed up German interest rates to the highest levels since the war .
2 We borrowed one sum to modernise our premises , which we are paying back long-term .
3 Every hour we are paying for the services of the Chancellor of the Exchequer , at an annual salary of £63,047 .
4 The whole episode illustrates the problems facing businesses caused by over-extending themselves and living beyond their means — there was little substance to the so-called boom of the 80s and we are paying for it today .
5 ‘ Okay , we are paying him plenty — not nearly as much as he gets in F1 — but real good .
6 The former UN Special Representative for Somalia , Mohamed Sahnoun , who resigned last year , said in August ‘ … if only we had intervened last November … now we are paying the price . ’
7 The market for New York real estate is very soft , compared with the rent we are paying for our Tokyo gallery ’ .
8 We are paying for it now , says Sir Eric .
9 Now , when I started to ba er buy my house , we are paying , we were paying twenty seven pound a month for the upkeep of the building , it 's now went up to thirty four pound twenty two pence a month .
10 Er , now we are paying thirty four pound twenty two pence a month for the upkeep of this building , that , as far as I know there 's twelve tenants in this block has bought their house .
11 I mean , you know , when you think of what you 're paying as a , the other gentleman was saying , we are paying the thirty four pound twenty two pence a month , then you 've also got your poll tax above that , and then your mortgage as well !
12 Not like ti is now stockpiling it you know , and here we are paying interest on a mou , umpteen million pounds worth of coal .
13 They are getting less than we are paying .
14 Now we are paying the price .
15 Clearly , in the current review of the Territorial Army , we are paying great attention to the need to continue to have a good geographical spread across the country .
16 Like the hon. Member for Dagenham ( Mr. Gould ) , I also declare the reverse of a pecuniary interest because we are paying out to our student sons and daughters .
17 This year we are paying into the Common Market budget about £2.5 billion more than we receive in order to subsidise richer countries .
18 Although trading throughout the Group is improving , we are paying a lot more bank interest this year as we borrowed £67 million to buy .
19 We have endeavoured to include many of the subjects requested by qualified teachers and this year we are paying particular attention to music .
20 We are , we are paying nine hundred pound at the moment .
21 Thank christ its a free transfer and its ‘ only ’ the wages we are paying .
22 And for which we are paying too much .
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 They could have taken our property and we are paying our poll tax . ’
25 ‘ Graham Gooch should have sorted the problem out , he did not , and now we are paying for it . ’
26 I do n't mind that so much though , 'cos they say we are paying a lot less back a month than other way .
27 Well it is n't erm , I 'm just wondering if , ah , we are getting , erm the right service from Sharon the cleaner , that we are paying for .
28 In other words , we have a welfare state , we help the international community with our foreign aid , and we are very progressive and we use the most up-to-date erm technology in developing our country and erm we are paying no taxes , and very progressive .
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