Example sentences of "[noun sg] paid [prep] by the " in BNC.

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1 Was the was the lawyer paid for by the union ?
2 Where the defendant has made a voluntary interim payment before proceedings , the plaintiff must still plead the whole of his claim including any special damage for expense paid for by the interim payment .
3 During the previous summer , Coleman had acted as technical adviser to the Cypriot Police Force Narcotics Squad ( CPFNS ) and helped train its officers in the use of communications , surveillance and other electronic gear paid for by the United Nations Fund for Drug Abuse Control ( UNFDAC ) .
4 At CPFNS headquarters near the Nicosia Hilton , a cupboardful of expensive audio and video equipment paid for by the UN Fund for Drug Abuse Control was gathering dust and Hurley was anxious to get it out in the field , even though wiretaps were strictly illegal in Cyprus .
5 For most the only alternative is a flight home paid for by the German government and a DM3,000 ‘ golden handshake ’ they 'll be forced to convert into dong ( at the artificial official rate ) on arrival .
6 Fixed-term contracts may make provision for employees on leave to have their passage(s) to and from home paid for by the employer .
7 The idea of a national public service paid for by the community is under attack from those who favour the concept of ‘ consumer sovereignty ’ and subscription ( ‘ pay-per-view ’ ) television .
8 Scroungerphobia was monitored by two researchers , Peter Golding and Sue Middleton , who reproduced in New Society one of the Daily Mail 's diatribes against " Scroungers by the Sea " in 1977 : " The seaside social security offices are thick with subsidised cigarette smoke , the smell of alcohol paid for by the state and the smugly tanned faces of leeches feeding off the hard-working , ordinary , silent majority . "
9 There is legal advice from non-lawyers , from salaried lawyers and from the private profession paid for by the client , the State , local government , charities or provided gratuitously — or a combination of them .
10 And another five hundred thousand every year paid for by the Queen !
11 The years of slavery are in some measure paid for by the clothes and jewellery heaped upon them by the Egyptians , now only too anxious to see them go .
12 A special concession paid for by the Ministry of Defence allows for Aerogrammes to and from HM Forces based in BFPOs 801 to 825 , BFPO 655 and HM Ships operating in the seas around the Falkland Islands to be sent without pre-payment of postage .
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