Example sentences of "[det] [noun sg] be pay [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I accept that the local authority and the social workers behaved in the way in which they did in error , but it is an important constitutional matter , and to mark the position , and so that local authorities shall not be under any misapprehension about their powers , I order that the costs of this application be paid by the local authority .
2 However , only 10 per cent ( originally 20 per cent ) of this subscription is paid to the Bank , the remaining 90 per cent acting as a guarantee for the Bank 's lending .
3 When so much attention is paid to the vast power of multinational companies , it is perhaps wise to think of the numbers of international names that have disappeared from the scene , even during our own lifetime .
4 Much attention was paid to the precise angling of this key element in the Continental R's body concept : it comes across in the metal as very much better proportioned than the photographs suggest .
5 Specific criticisms included the view that coverage of Business Questions ( coming immediately after the Prime Minister on Thursdays ) was excessive ; that there was too much coverage of points of order ; that too much attention was paid to the confrontation between the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition ; that not enough attention was paid to legislation ; and that more should be shown of the nuts and bolts of the House 's work .
6 It was argued that there was considerable ‘ wastage ’ of talent , and much attention was paid to the ‘ neglected educational territory ’ of pupils who left school at 15 to follow a craft or technical , rather than an academic , career .
7 In some modern classical ballets too little attention is paid to the momentary holding of a pose as the focus of a picture to sum up — as it were — what has gone before .
8 Research on the participation of the public in general or clients in particular tends to centre around the form of participation involved ( inputs ) and its effect on the change agent and action systems ( processes , ‘ thruputs ’ ) , but little attention is paid to the results of participation ( outputs ) in general , and in achieving the specific goals of the activity involved .
9 High perspective achieves an almost generalized view of land which can reflect an economic bias , Little attention is paid to the ‘ content ’ of landscapes as artists give ‘ … little evidence of caring that the topography … was a representation of the needs of the people who had created it . ’
10 We rarely see the Old Testament as a whole and little attention is paid to the system of political economy which is set up under divine instruction in the Pentateuch .
11 Little attention is paid to the input side as distinct from the output side , the sensory information and feed-back which the operator is using to control what he is doing is neglected .
12 As Hamilton points out , ‘ very little attention is paid to the conflicts of interest between groups which may relate to their structural position either in an organization or in the wider society ’ ( Hamilton 1980 , p. 49 ) .
13 The new seeds were a scientific success but in their introduction to the LDCs , too little attention was paid to the social and political context .
14 The understandable concentration of research on the needy and on the failures of community support meant that little attention was paid to the positive contribution to the community made by many older people in the form of services to family and community .
15 But little attention was paid to the cultural and communication dimensions related to this process .
16 However , it was motherhood rather than the needs of individual mothers which evoked concern and relatively little attention was paid to the conditions faced by working class wives in their daily lives .
17 Little attention was paid to the individuals within organisations in terms of their beliefs , values and their relations with each other .
18 Gordon Downey ( 1986 ) , a former C & AG , notes that as the amounts of money being voted by Parliament grow larger and larger , so too is there increasingly less attention being paid to the fact that billions of pounds a year have been voted automatically .
19 In addition , more attention is paid to the socioeconomic structure of farming and in particular the greater reliance of hill farming on government and EEC grant aid and subsidies .
20 By the mid-century economic considerations were more important , and although roads continued to be built , more attention was paid to the construction of railway lines .
21 If more attention was paid to the basics and less to incorporating an impressive number of zips , these trousers would be even better value-for-money .
22 Much more attention was paid to the North American seacoast , where English colonies doubled in number and were treated more seriously by London than ever before .
23 A human touch was added to Nash 's report : ‘ I could heartily wish more respect were paid to the remains of this amiable though unfortunate Queen , and would willingly , with proper leave , have them wrapt in another sheet of lead and coffin , and decently interred in some proper place , that at least after her death her body might remain in peace ; whereas the Chapel where she now lies is used for the keeping of rabbits , which make holes and scratch very indecently about her Royal corpse . ’
24 If that sum is paid to the beneficiary he will be entitled to a tax credit of £32.50 , ie the £25 credit which must be paid to him plus the £7.50 additional rate .
25 Any surplus is paid to the defendant — unless the under sheriff knows of other writs of fi .
26 Has enough attention been paid to the need for adaptability within the system , especially if it has been initiated/developed outside the institution ?
27 3 Drills can often be performed well without any attention being paid to the structure or meaning .
28 The vendor should ensure that the sale agreement provides that the purchaser is obliged to pay that part of the price that is not disputed as soon as possible and that interest is paid on the additional amount if any that the purchaser is subsequently required to pay .
29 For example , if Newco issues deep discount securities under Sch 4 TA 1988 , no or little interest is paid to the lender , but when they are redeemed the discount element becomes payable ( representing , effectively , rolled-up interest ) .
30 Until recently most attention was paid to the island 's goat population , but now pigs are the first priority .
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