Example sentences of "[verb] pay a [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was no interim dividend , but Mr Aitken said the directors would consider paying a final dividend at the year-end in the light of trading conditions then . |
| 2 | If X starts to pay a regular sum of money to Y , X may become a periodic tenant . |
| 3 | First , even if you are in Italy , expect to pay a high price for Parma ham — anything that seems a real bargain will probably not be true prosciutto crudo . |
| 4 | Using equation ( 2 ) , the cost of debt finance can be calculated as follows : The current market value of the firm 's equity finance is £1 million and the firm is expected to pay a perpetual dividend of £120,000 each year ( that is , g=0 ) . |
| 5 | Because of their frontality African figure sculptures are commonly photographed or drawn full face , concealing the fact that the sculptor has paid a great deal of attention to the profile view . |
| 6 | This is not a description that applies to WordStar alone — most of the Windows based word processors aspire to this kind of characterization , but WordStar as a company has paid a great deal of attention to the graphics side of the equation , and this includes fiddling with text to get the most impact from it . |
| 7 | But Egypt has paid a heavy price for its hubris . |
| 8 | Earlier this year she won an award for an outstanding contribution to theatre writing.Her husband Jeremy has paid a moving tribute to his wife , in a statement he said , She was to quote Wordsworth , ’ My heart 's best treasure ’ |
| 9 | The wildlife kingdom has paid a high price for supplying man with food and products ; classic examples of this are whaling , the ivory trade , fur coats , tortoise shell and reptile skins used for handbags and shoes . |
| 10 | There is no doubt she feels that she has paid a high price for her royal life and looks forward to the day when she can spend a weekend in Paris or , as she says , ‘ I can run along a beach without a policeman following me ’ . |
| 11 | This country has paid a high price for that in lost jobs , lost homes and bankrupt businesses because of the effects of the Government 's economic policy . |
| 12 | She had n't mentioned that she 'd paid a previous visit to the house . |
| 13 | But you 're paying for it in your tax , you you 'd paid a whopping subsidy on it , it 's a big con . |
| 14 | But because he turned down an out of court settlement of £10,000 in August , his financial backers , the RCN , now face paying a large share of a costs bill of around £25,000 . |
| 15 | He may have been persuaded to pay a large sum of money ( perhaps hundreds or thousands of pounds ) for the privilege of joining . |
| 16 | Any edition of it , in good condition , will suit the collector , who should not be persuaded to pay a high price for it . |
| 17 | Suppose first we consider the case where the revenue from the capital tax is used to pay a lump-sum transfer to the older generation ; i.e. . |
| 18 | So if you wan na take them home you 've got to pay a little bit of money |
| 19 | He says you have to be realistic and who 's going to pay a million pounds for a player who 's thirty in october . |
| 20 | And I 'm haunted by the fear that we 're going to pay a hefty price for ignoring the claims of Kenny Benjamin and Anderson Cummins . |
| 21 | this is the story of my life now in the bathroom I have had , I have had to pay a hundred pounds to Mr Butcher the plumber to put in a new shower thing because that was cheap and rough and eventually wore out should never have been put in . |
| 22 | Under the new settlement , Exxon have agreed to pay a criminal fine of US$150 million , of which $25 million is suspended . |
| 23 | In the meantime we offer our apologies to Neptune , Boreas and Thor , and have agreed to pay a substantial sum in damages should they care to collect it . |
| 24 | As a consequence women could until 1975 opt to pay a lower rate of national insurance and receive a lower retirement pension . |
| 25 | She was given a year 's conditional discharge by Bicester Magistrates and ordered to pay a hundred pounds in costs and sixty pounds compensation . |
| 26 | Even some of the most socially elevated paid a heavy price for opposing the policy . |
| 27 | The existing 100% Custom fees will be abolished , but all those wanting to sell Russian art abroad will have to pay a varying sum to the Federal National Heritage Service for such a permission . |
| 28 | The maximum grant is £270 , and you will have to pay a fixed contribution towards the cost , up to a maximum of £15 . |
| 29 | If you pay-in at a branch of a different bank from your own you will probably have to pay a small fee at the counter . |
| 30 | Everybody in the region would have to pay a new tax towards a regional assembly based on Tyneside and dominated by Labour politicians . |