Example sentences of "pay for [prep] the state " in BNC.
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| 1 | The primary state sector , the ‘ national schools ’ , is paid for by the state , but is effectively under the control of the churches , with a local priest or minister as manager . |
| 2 | Otherwise , the patient might spend some time in a private nursing home , possibly paid for by the State . |
| 3 | Investigators will examine every royal building that is paid for by the state . |
| 4 | The emphasis was now to be increasingly on service , given to and paid for by the state , which assumed the right to appoint its commanders ( this was made easier by the fact that all accepted the state 's money for service in war ) and to demand that it got the best available in return for its money . |
| 5 | 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 . " |