Example sentences of "[noun sg] pay [noun sg] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The former Belfast Lord Mayor paid tribute to DUP leader Ian Paisley for his support during his divorce . |
| 2 | The increased competitive pressure experienced by many US and UK companies as a result of the Japanese emphasis on reliability and the inclusion of ‘ extras ’ in basic models has made them much more aware of the need to pay attention to quality . |
| 3 | It was regrettable that the single justice had been advised that there was no need to pay regard to Meikle . |
| 4 | His reason for being in Britain was , it appeared , a desire to pay tribute to Benny Hill , the politically incorrect comedian , who was languishing in a hospital bed , following a mild heart attack . |
| 5 | And three or four years later , in an essay that is still valuable inasmuch as it is a catena diligently culled from curious reading , Pound urges readers of The Egoist to pay attention to Ovid rather than ‘ the more Tennysonian Virgil ’ . |
| 6 | Francois Morellet is showing ‘ Relache ’ , a series of recent works whose title pays homage to Picabia , at Liliane and Michel Durand-Dessert ( 16 January to 20 February ) while Vera Rohm 's ‘ Foto-tele ’ , monumental sculptures , are on at Nikki Diana Marquadt until the middle of January , together with large panels by Horst Haack , taken from pages of one of his albums , covered with sketches , quotations , poems and newspaper cuttings . |
| 7 | He refused to accompany his father to pay homage to Louis IX in November 1259 . |
| 8 | On Nov. 6 it was announced that the government had signed an agreement the previous week to pay compensation to Jews living in eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union who had been persecuted by the Nazi regime and had thus far been unable to claim compensation under a West German agreement dating from 1952 . |
| 9 | In 1967 the Canadian government paid tribute to Lawren Harris by reproducing his oil painting of Bylot Island in Ontario for the 15 cent denomination postage stamp , now listed in the Stanley Gibbons ' commonwealth catalogue as No 586 — Canada . |
| 10 | As my hon. and learned Friend the Member for Burton said that the work should ideally enable prisoners to earn a remission on part of their sentence , or it could earn money to pay compensation to victims . |
| 11 | Prince pays tribute to IRA bomb victim 's bravery |
| 12 | No sooner was Lydia 's wedding to Tobias over , than Bob Lamb had approached him for his permission to pay court to Martha , with a view to eventual marriage . |
| 13 | This organization pays money to record companies and artists for the performances of their music on radio and television , unlike PRS which pays the writers . |
| 14 | It was not a very fitting way to pay tribute to Derek White on his last international performance . |
| 15 | He watched them rushing through Calais on their way to pay court to Napoleon ( Sonnet : ‘ Is it a reed that 's shaken by the wind ’ ) , and decided , since he regarded the French leader as a despot and a menace to free institutions , that the only course open was to support that party in England which wanted to continue the war , namely the Tories . |
| 16 | Oag pays tribute to Yoyo Nakajima , senior trade advisor in Glasgow . |
| 17 | Starting on a sad note , THE FACE pays respect to Savile Row 's Tommy Nutter , the man who dressed Mick Jagger and Jack Nicholson ( in Batman ) and made flared trousers hip ( the first time around . |
| 18 | Nearly 14 tonnes of gold deposited in the United Kingdom had been sold under a February 1967 Soviet-UK agreement to pay compensation to UK citizens for property which had been lost during the Soviet annexation of the Baltic states [ see p. 21882 ] . |
| 19 | Birgit Nilsson was in London for a dinner to pay tribute to Christopher Raeburn . |
| 20 | Shaw 's Heartbreak House pays homage to Chekhov , but it has nothing to learn from Joe Orton . |
| 21 | Anfield 's Welsh wizard also took time to pay tribute to Dalglish the player . |