Example sentences of "who pays the " in BNC.

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1 THE fighting on the ground may be nothing compared with the fighting over who pays the bill .
2 Her benefits were therefore not so much economic as political : he who pays the piper calls the tune .
3 Unfortunately this has rebounded on local authorities since , operating under the principle of he who pays the piper calls the tune , Central Government has been able to impose severe restrictions on local authority spending , not only by curbing the total amount of the grant , but also by penalising local authorities who exceed targets imposed by the Central Government .
4 First , it was argued that local government was financially dependent on the centre , and that ‘ he who pays the piper calls the tune ’ .
5 We must remember ‘ he who pays the piper calls the tune ’ , and record producers influenced what we hear today .
6 Covenanted donations to charities for a term of more than three years can be offset against tax if you are someone who pays the higher rate of tax .
7 They may even believe that he who pays the piper calls the tune , and that PFK editorial is slanted towards one or another manufacturer .
8 This was followed by Julie and Cynthia talking in their comfortable Wandsworth home , indistinguishable from thousands of homes owned by married couples — so indistinguishable that the two women are faced with such questions as , ‘ If you go out together for dinner , who pays the bill ? ’ , and ‘ How do you organise your domestic life together ?
9 So anyone who pays the bill in full each month and never spreads the payments should pick the Co-op Card or National & Provincial 's card , although the latter offers only a one-year ‘ no fee ’ guarantee .
10 It 's the poor old punter who pays the betting tax in stoppages from winning bets — but he wo n't get a penny .
11 GARY CLAIL : ‘ Who Pays The Piper ’ self-styled blunt , belligerent white toaster issues an Adrian Sherwood-produced taster from his forthcoming third LP , remixed by Paul Oakenfold and Steve Osbourne
12 GARY CLAIL : Who Pays The Piper
13 How far should he who pays the piper call the tune ?
14 In the latter case , the rate of relief is the marginal rate of the person who pays the premium .
15 He who pays the piper …
16 Lord Williams of Elvel quoted the ACC chairperson , who described the new system thus : ‘ The man who pays the piper calls the tune .
17 Please ask permission of person who pays the bill before calling .
18 Who pays the piper …
19 De Gaulle was little interested in AFPs ’ He considered it normal that he who pays the piper calls the tune : ‘ qui paie commande ’ .
20 All average rents on our stock across the whole of the south east is twenty seven pounds a week erm , I think is , is the figure now the bulk of that funded down to the old er regime that we had from the housing corporation where we got er , a lot more grant and we had the residual line and the money we 've had to borrow ourselves for the scheme was actually from the corporation themselves that all changed in the ninety eighty eight housing act and we now get a fixed er , sum of monies , it 's fixed percentage of local cost from the housing corporation and the balance has to be borrowed from a private lender just like anybody else going out and and buying a home , if you like er , from a , a bank , from a building society or somebody like that and we have to charge a rent er to the property that will repay that loan and , the way in which we actually do it is , is we charge a lower rent and actually who pays the rent quite substantially below that er , because erm the rent on these properties if we i if we charge what the the housing corporation 's grant as it 's set would be round about ten , twelve pounds more expensive than that .
21 Without new taxing powers , local authorities would come to depend more and more on help from the National Exchequer and , since he who pays the piper calls the tune , the result must be even stronger central influence over local decisions .
22 At the moment it is the ultimate loser who pays the costs even if he or she happens to have won at first instance and in the Court of Appeal .
23 The woman said , ‘ Who pays the taxi ? ’
24 He who pays the piper calls the tune .
25 The Secretary of State is making the provider the regulator — it is the provider who pays the regulator .
26 I do not know who pays the salaries of the people who drafted it .
27 The fundamental question that then has to be answered is , who pays the bills ?
28 Who pays the audit fees ?
29 Who pays the review fees ?
30 In this case concern rests not only with the recipient but also with the donor ( who pays the taxes to finance the subsidy ) .
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