Example sentences of "[noun] to pay off the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By September 1991 , a combination of the impact of the recession , the high fixed costs of the Newport office and the loans to pay off the four partners had landed the firm with a £1.65m debt , £1m of which they saw as long-term borrowing and £650,000 as their working capital requirement . |
| 2 | Charlie has taken a street sweeper 's job to earn the money to pay off the cruel landlord who would otherwise put a blind girl and her mother out onto the streets . |
| 3 | The receiver 's job is to safeguard the creditor 's security , and to sell sufficient of the charged assets to pay off the secured debt . |
| 4 | Austerity measures : On Feb. 27 the President announced that ministers and civil servants would have to pay up to 40 per cent of their salaries into a fund to pay off the foreign debt , while private-sector firms would have to pay a " solidarity tax " . |
| 5 | But within days ( i ) a bill arrives for £2.5m to pay off the former DLO employees ; ( ii ) the borough treasury suddenly lights upon a £6.5m deficit left over from 1987-88 ; and ( iii ) up pop £21m of debt repayments , mostly the result of deferred-payment agreements — glorified hire purchase — entered into when Whitehall started rate-capping in the mid-1980s . |
| 6 | Finnegan hopes to use some of his pension benefits to pay off the outstanding arrears . |
| 7 | If a customer 's circumstances change adversely for reasons beyond the customer 's control , the finance company will look sympathetically at the circumstances and will try , subject to any restrictions placed upon it by the Consumer Credit Act 1974 , to reach an accommodation with the customer to pay off the outstanding balance in a practicable manner . |