Example sentences of "[noun pl] pay for the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clients pay for the service on a quarterly basis and they know that the air will be kept clean , without any additional expenditure on repairs or maintenance ’ . |
| 2 | The practice looked all too much like an effort to make the Scots pay for the French , and for French interests . |
| 3 | Transport academics argue that road pricing would make drivers pay for the cost of congestion . |
| 4 | It is not just an effort to raise funds to pay for the continuance of the maypole-raising , but a way of instilling the custom into the children . |
| 5 | He invited his clients to pay for the privilege of cutting his locks and raised £1,000 for the Chest Heart and Stroke Association . |
| 6 | And although they maintained none of County Durham 's 5,000 teachers would lose their jobs the higher than expected pay deal will make the county dig into its reserves to pay for the salary hike . |
| 7 | He originally planned to earn enough cash selling computers to pay for the time he spent on the race track . |
| 8 | And the brothel-owners paid for the restoration of village temples and schools to help keep up the supply of young girls . |
| 9 | A comment of interest , when subscriptions to pay for the bell were not forthcoming appears in the Church magazine : " This is a matter which the Non-conformist might reasonably be expected to support , a fine peal of bells is something for all inhabitants of Halling to be proud of , they are rung on many occasions , which have nothing to do with church services " . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 12 | Marlene had stolen his jacket when he went to the loo , he had just enough money in his trousers to pay for the meal . |
| 13 | Its attempt to make farmers pay for the pollution they caused had been overturned by the environmentally primitive MAFF . |
| 14 | Staff at the Gloucester Museum now need to raise two and a half thousand pounds to pay for the reconstruction . |
| 15 | an acknowledgement , and acknowledgement in a manner to be agreed , if that really is , I mean if we put our twenty thousand pounds to pay for the lift for the disabled or something like that , |
| 16 | The interviewer Martin Pailthorpe was interested to find out Laura 's views on imposing a levy on outdoor goods to pay for the maintenance of footpaths . |
| 17 | On the other hand the person in the street appears doomed to see ever more of the countryside becoming inaccessible , pay higher food prices , and through higher taxes pay for the storage of grain mountains , beef mountains , wine lakes and so on . |
| 18 | One wonders why taxpayers continue to accept a situation that allows schoolchildren to be educated in sub-standard conditions , hospitals to deteriorate , and local authorities to be denied funds to repair damaged roads , when the taxes pay for the subsistence of people forced into idleness who would rather be employed remedying those situations . |
| 19 | During the trip to India — which , British elections permitting , should take place within a few months — Baker will emphasise government support for any satellite deals that India makes with private industry , for example , the state could provide loans to pay for the work . |
| 20 | The Cambrian itself will lose the Cambrian Coast Express from March with the withdrawal of the Intercity from the arrangements to pay for the train west of Salop . |
| 21 | In the past two and half years it has risen four times in real terms to pay for the publication of more and more glossy pamphlets such as the parents charter — party political propaganda produced at the taxpayers ' expense . |
| 22 | Blue Circle wants to put up a small commercial development on the site of the old cement works and use the profits to pay for the restoration work — two lakes — one for fishing and sailing , the other for geologists and birdwatchers . |
| 23 | First , the Americans pay for the construction and running costs of Sigint stations such as Menwith Hill and Morwenstow , saving GCHQ a lot of money . |
| 24 | Trafalgar House plc is constructing a bridge across the River Thames above the Dartford Tunnels , which it runs , using the tolls to pay for the bridge . |
| 25 | Businesses will then put up prices to pay for the wage increases . |
| 26 | Mr Karel Van Miert , the Transport Commissioner , is asking member governments to approve a plan which would leave passenger services largely in the hands of state-owned monopolies but open up freight services to competition by permitting private operators to pay for the use of publicly-owned tracks . |
| 27 | The use of contract armies to fight the war depended , of course , not just upon the readiness of men to serve but also upon the willingness of parliament to vote taxes to pay for the war . |
| 28 | The buyout team have mortgaged their possessions to pay for the company . |
| 29 | Pay-as-you-go means that today s contributors pay for the pension of today 's retired people — on the basis that the next generation will pick up the bill for today 's contributors when they retire . |
| 30 | Just as some would pay for intelligence , so would others pay for the spirit . |