Example sentences of "[noun sg] paid [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The women , who are twin sisters , were staying in a guest house at Wantage , their rent paid by the social services . |
| 2 | One of the major achievements of the journeymen in the nineteenth century had been to succeed in having both kinds of work paid at the same rate . |
| 3 | We can reveal that UPH only paid the liquidator a 15% deposit ( £660,000 ) and that the balance was not paid until August 1989 , when the so-called European consortium paid over the first part ( approx. £4m ) of their purchase price . |
| 4 | Surplus ACT carried forward is treated as ACT paid in the next accounting period ( s 239(4) ) . |
| 5 | Is not this transgression contained , the unintended reverence paid by the sacrilegious to the sacred ? |
| 6 | Age Concern would like to see similar attention paid to the extra resources required to ensure provision of adequate staff and facilities to enable high quality health care to be provided for elderly people , both at home and in hospital . |
| 7 | Each home , from the largest to the smallest , is equipped to the HIGHEST specifications , with careful attention paid to the minutest detail . |
| 8 | Compare the attention paid to the supposed receiver in the following writing instructions from two textbooks : |
| 9 | In a period when the social , political and economic priorities of the rural community would seem to have been largely disregarded , the attention paid to the urban sector did not lead to huge improvements in the social , political and economic environment of the inhabitants of the towns and cities . |
| 10 | Furthermore , the growing tendency to withdraw from economic activity at a specific chronological age ( 60/65 ) , regardless of physiological condition and cognitive capacity , reinforced the attention paid to the ageing demographic structure of the country . |
| 11 | The Kenneth Branagh phenomenon is a cautionary tale but apart from the aren't-you-sick-of-him response , there has been little serious attention paid to the growing predictability of the media circus . |
| 12 | What the Aplysia group needed was some process in their favoured animal which could be unequivocally recognized as long-term memory and whose circuitry could be studied in a similar manner to that they had so effectively employed with the short-term processes ; hence the attention paid in the early 1980s to finding an analogue of classical conditioning of the gill and siphon withdrawal reflex . |
| 13 | The reduction in interest broadly matched the increase in tax paid between the two years , so the net movement of funds from operations are a critical parameter for whether we 're really generating cash for new initiatives , significantly better at forty five point six million and this this excludes the proceeds of fixed asset disposals , so all in all we had pretty nearly sixty million cash free and clear . |
| 14 | In some countries the percentage tax paid on the first slice of taxable income is quite low , say 15 per cent , and rises steadily as income rises . |
| 15 | Palmer 's opening move was to oppose the introduction of a General Tax Ordinance for Nigeria , and , with the support of the Residents , to propose a return to the 1906 Native Revenue Ordinance , which stated that the tax paid in the Northern Provinces was levied by the native authorities with the approval but not at the direction of the governor . |
| 16 | Moreover , the proportion of the tax paid by the richest tax-payers is greatest when the top rate is lowest . |
| 17 | As a result , the benefit of one more resident in ( to the new and existing residents ) is where is the tax paid by the marginal immigrant . |
| 18 | At pounds 150 , the fee paid to the man-of-the-match adjudicator , Ray Illingworth , will work out at about pounds 300 per second 's thought . |
| 19 | Pool boss Alan Murray is refusing to reveal the fee paid for the new man , but it is believed to be about £50,000 . |
| 20 | Additionally , in the case of a complete failure to perform to contract at all , the buyer will usually have the right to go elsewhere to a third party for the same goods and to charge the seller for any increase in the price paid to the third party over that payable to the seller . |
| 21 | Was the existence of the penalty clause in Williams v. Roffey or the potential default of the other buyers in Anangel an element in the price paid by the respective promisees ? |
| 22 | This is in spite of the lip service paid to the proud independence of the States . |
| 23 | The Mongol invasion had hit the urban centres particularly hard , and the tribute paid to the Golden Horde for over two centuries had made recovery difficult . |
| 24 | May I associate my right hon. and hon. Friends with the tribute paid by the Prime Minister to Her Majesty the Queen , and may I join in the other congratulations already expressed ? |
| 25 | The interest rate paid on the first tranche of capital direct from the Treasury , at 5¼ per cent , was the highest they had ever paid . |
| 26 | Television dollars have in the past paid for the rising salaries but today 's bidders seem determined to pay less than the $1.45 billion CBS and ESPN bid in winning the current four-year deal for network and cable rights . |
| 27 | The balance is written underneath the TOTAL PAID on the petty cash sheet , and the amount of imprest is entered under that . |
| 28 | Would there be any drawbacks of a completely automated system of clearing , whereby the branch of a bank into which a cheque was paid simply fed the information into a nationwide computer and the computer then ( a ) debited the account at the branch on which it was drawn and ( b ) for clearing purposes added the amount to the total paid from the one bank to the other on that day ? |
| 29 | … It was never intended that the benefit received by the airline employee would be the fare paid by the ordinary passenger . |
| 30 | An error , intentional or otherwise , in the amount paid on the due date ( nine months after the end of the accounting period ) will result in a 3.35% difference in the interest paid or charged . |