Example sentences of "pay for [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 GENERALLY speaking , you get what you pay for in a kitchen .
2 He 's got to label up and pay for at a consignment rate each item .
3 Other strategies to ‘ save ’ money included joining clubs to purchase essentials which they could not afford to pay for in a lump sum , although being aware of the extra costs of the high interest on such purchases ; having slot meters installed to control electricity consumption ; and delaying lighting the fire until later in the day to conserve coal :
4 In June , 1950 , North Korean Communists nearly overran the southern half of the artificially divided country , the half which the U.S. had occupied and paid for since the war .
5 You 'd have to pay for exams and all that , but it 's all paid for at the end of the day in n it ?
6 The training is paid for through a performance related technical levy .
7 Water is normally paid for via the water rates , but the water industry is looking at the feasibility of water metering in the future .
8 This peculiar quality of solid , clenched abstraction appears in phrase after phrase — " compactness " dwells within the " " compression " " of Horatian metres ; but as soon as a translator attempts to transpose him into English quatrains , things go askew and adrift , because every compression is paid for with an expansion .
9 No we did n't buy tyres , no they were tyre mileage rates and erm mileage was the , tyres were paid for on the mileage run .
10 Quite strange but as soon as he 's paid for for the goods and got the goods the chap 's going to go off looking for another .
11 As this comment suggests , food is the major item to be paid for within the family 's residual income .
12 Note that this does not include monsters ridden by characters , which must be paid for from the character allowance .
13 Note that this does not include monsters ridden by characters , which must be paid for from the Characters allowance .
14 A desk is bought for the business for £100 paid for from the bank account .
15 It could be paid for by a freeze on upper tax thresholds and personal allowances which would save the Treasury over £850m .
16 The new pitch is made of synthetic Baspograss , packed with sand and backed with a rubber cushion to minimise wear , and has been paid for by a variety of bodies both local and national .
17 The six-month long video trial has been paid for by a £120,000 grant from the Urban Crime Fund .
18 In Dawson v. Duffield ( 1936 K.B. ) , two lorries worth £475 were to be paid for by a combination of two ‘ trade-in ’ lorries worth £250 and the balance in cash .
19 According to director Alain Corneau , each minute of joy has to be paid for by a lifetime of misery .
20 The local authority will make enquiries to see if the funeral can be paid for by a relative .
21 The mine was paid for by a loan package of which $257 million came from European Coal and Steel Community funds via the EC .
22 Similarly , organized bodies of men walked the marshes of the Thames , setting out in the early morning mist to assess the repairs required , which were paid for by a charge known as ‘ wallscot ’ or ‘ scottage ’ .
23 So there has been criticism of the growth of patronage and of the extent to which bodies which are paid for by the taxpayer are not fully accountable to Parliament for their actions .
24 of the capital costs of the CTC programme , including those of the Telford college in my constituency , were paid for by the taxpayer ?
25 As he said , two of those motorway crossings were paid for by the taxpayer .
26 Acknowledging that it would appear unjust to pay higher allowances out of taxation to the middle classes , she argued that it would only be possible if the higher allowances were paid for by the income groups or occupations which benefitted from them .
27 Few visible signs of such domestic industries remain , but the fine octagonal market house on the village green at Harrold is where work was distributed among the lace-makers , and where they brought the finished lace to be paid for by the employers .
28 And another five hundred thousand every year paid for by the Queen !
29 Was the was the lawyer paid for by the union ?
30 If your area receives protection in this period , it will be paid for by the Government .
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