Example sentences of "[noun sg] to pay [noun sg] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It was regrettable that the single justice had been advised that there was no need to pay regard to Meikle . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | He refused to accompany his father to pay homage to Louis IX in November 1259 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It was not a very fitting way to pay tribute to Derek White on his last international performance . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ] . |
| 12 | Birgit Nilsson was in London for a dinner to pay tribute to Christopher Raeburn . |
| 13 | Anfield 's Welsh wizard also took time to pay tribute to Dalglish the player . |