Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] pay for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pitt introduced income taxes to pay for the Napoleonic Wars . |
| 2 | You 've used , er , er , an underspend from this year rolled over , but you have n't increased the base budget to pay for the projection costs which came from erm , this year 's budget . |
| 3 | I think she undoubtedly added to the intrigue erm and difficulties of her court , erm one example , she was always getting people that she approved of , getting them plum jobs , and one example was one of the governors of Oxford , the most unpopular , one Sir Arthur Aston , who was so unpopular that he got attacked on the street , and then had to have a body guard paid for the city council , and then was curvetting on his horse in front of some ladies , and fell off and broke his leg so badly that he had to have it amputated , so from then on he had a wooden leg , erm that meant he had to stop being governor , and later on in the war , a countryman was coming into Oxford , and asked the sentinel ‘ who was governor still ’ , and by that time a friend of prince Rupert 's Sir William Leg was governor , and the answer was ‘ one Leg ’ , and the countryman 's reply was ‘ pox on him , is he governor still ? ’ . |
| 4 | This excellent result meant that the final cash dividend paid for the year ended 31st March 1993 was £0.5 million , compared with the £13.2 million which would have been payable if all shareholders had received the cash dividend . |
| 5 | Vendors would do well to remember the principle illustrated in Finney Lock Seeds Ltd v Mitchell ( George ) ( Chesterhall ) Ltd [ 1983 ] 1 All ER 108 in that the damages incurred and awarded ( in that case nearly £100,000 ) can be far in excess of the purchase price paid for the assets ( in that case approximately £100 ) if the loss is a consequence of a defective asset . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Anglia Polytechnic University paid for the trip to Bilogora . |
| 8 | At two pounds and ten shillings an acre it would take only ten working days to pay for the plough , but he had promised Christian half his earnings . |
| 9 | Not only are peak users paying for the high marginal costs they impose , but also those users who would not mind consuming at a different time ( e.g. households with night storage heaters , who can use electricity at a time when marginal costs are low ) are induced by cheaper prices to switch to consuming at off-peak times . |
| 10 | Trafalgar eventually gave in when the Panel threatened to take up its option to apply to the courts for an order under the 1985 Companies Act , which might have forced the company directors to pay for the production of revised accounts themselves . |
| 11 | During the uneasy alliance following ‘ Bloody Mary 's ’ marriage into the Spanish royal family , some Spanish ships carrying gold bullion to pay for the upkeep of their garrisons in the Netherlands had taken refuge from French privateers in these two Cornish ports . |
| 12 | Currently , a Home Office grant pays for the schemes ' managers and co-ordinators . |