Example sentences of "[noun] to pay for [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The Roald Dahl Foundation has provided funds to pay for a paediatric epilepsy nurse at the unit .
2 It has also underlined the urgent need for sufficient Government funds to pay for a massive recovery programme .
3 With insufficient funds to pay for the whole tournament RWC readily accepted the Italian Federation 's offer to host the Qualifying Tournament .
4 A CROWD of people fought with police officers as they tried to stop a council bailiff taking a car to pay for an outstanding poll tax bill , a court was told yesterday .
5 Nevertheless , it 's not uncommon in the United States that families may , for example , have to sell their homes to pay for the medical treatment of a relative .
6 ‘ I do n't think it is fair to expect this lady to pay for a new lock .
7 Removal of the need to pay for a junior barrister as well as a QC in a substantial number of legal aid cases .
8 We often reached our overdraft limit because of a sticky cashflow — and after taking on a large mortgage to pay for a new factory we could n't raise any further borrowing for the second production line we needed much sooner than expected .
9 There is no golden rule as to what is the appropriate price to pay for a particular business .
10 What a price to pay for an Imperial whim .
11 But for months , Hay had been forcing Bryan to hand over hundreds of pounds to pay for an expensive lifestyle .
12 Old folk at the Wesley Court centre had collected hundreds of pounds to pay for the sing-a-long machine .
13 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 .
14 Measures passed in December include : a national drug company to buy from foreign companies and sell generic drugs without brand names ( at low prices ) ; a limit of three versions of any one drug to be on sale and a special tax on foreign drug firms to pay for the national company .
15 The county council will have to ask colleges to bid for money on its behalf to pay for the vocational adult education courses it runs .
16 Even with the advantages of other income sources , studios depend on a few hits to pay for a large number of duds .
17 And your can use any number of eurocheques to pay for a particular item or service .
18 They get out the plastic to pay for the double-decker load of food .
19 Friends have chipped in to raise £7,000 to pay for the delicate operation .
20 However , by July there were signs of more serious trouble and City analysts believed that Eurotunnel might need a further £1bn to pay for a near tripling in the cost of the shuttle fleet and meet the rapidly increasing costs of labour and materials in South East England .
21 In 1982 , Kelly and Robert Rigney , chief administrative officer of San Bernardino county , persuaded the state to pay for a real building with isolators .
22 Now in fairness it would n't be our responsibility to pay for a new engine if the vehicle had been drive on .
23 Sophia 's decision to pay for a private nurse was a super gesture .
24 Joyce 's time at Battersea brought him no closer to getting a degree or to having the money to pay for a conventional education .
25 Historians are trying to raise enough money to pay for a medical artist to reconstruct features onto the skull .
26 Because there is no money to pay for the extra care and maintenance staff , janitors , and others , who would be required to make greater use of the facilities at night or at week-ends .
27 Does the Minister agree that when individuals have raised money to pay for the offshore survival course , it is disgraceful that they should be denied unemployment benefit on the basis that they are unavailable for work while they are on the training course ?
28 Dismissals are now explained as an inevitable response to pressures beyond managerial control be they the result of higher taxes to pay for the public finance deficit or the need to introduce even greater levels of mechanization to meet world competition .
29 After first of all declining to write for the series , Nation eventually agreed after a row with his former employer , comedian Tony Hancock , left him with no income to pay for a central heating system he was having installed at home .
30 The Secretary of State may try to dodge the issue but tonight he is asking us to allow him and British Coal to pay for the top-of-the-range redundancy levels which the interim report from Rothschild urges as a necessary prerequisite for privatisation —
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