Example sentences of "[noun sg] pay for the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pool boss Alan Murray is refusing to reveal the fee paid for the new man , but it is believed to be about £50,000 . |
| 2 | In which case it also seems a small price to pay for the next generation of senior managers to be blooded . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | They get out the plastic to pay for the double-decker load of food . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ? |
| 8 | 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 — |
| 9 | If my wife and I both go then the car is cheaper by £10 , but that is not a lot to pay for the increased safety of rail travel , the convenience of not having to take a car into London and indeed the fact that we can read or go to sleep on the train . |
| 10 | Hampshire County Council are asking EHDC to drop their community complex plans for part of the Liss junior school site as they want to maximise income from the school 's sale to pay for the new school . |
| 11 | Fashion garments may and do cost a great deal , but break down the component parts of that price and the sum paid for the natural fibre fabrics begins to look a little odd . |
| 12 | The bill did not include a method for funding the changes , leading Bush to suggest that it would " inevitably lead to a raid on the Treasury to pay for the elaborate scheme of public subsidies " . |
| 13 | Yet how many people this Christmas will be going into debt to pay for the festive season ? |
| 14 | Mr Bull , 75 , said he would not have too much difficulty in finding the extra £15 a year to pay for the new road tax fees and would economise on petrol . |
| 15 | Although government officials are confident of somehow finding a way next year to pay for the national backbone network , they are sceptical of the LDP 's ability to break through the ceiling on overall spending on science . |
| 16 | So the new lines would each need only two workers , the increase in productivity paying for the new control system within a couple of years . |
| 17 | There has to be a substantial increase either in income tax or in VAT to pay for the Labour party 's spending plans . |
| 18 | She dropped a one-pound coin on the table to pay for the smashed saucer . |