Example sentences of "pay for the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By making you pay more on your VAT , so we can knock the Poll Tax bills down , you 're still paying for the damn stuff , ah , ha |
| 2 | It may be true , as some suggest , that working-class budgets would not stretch to paying for the regular use of new birth-control methods but old , tried and cheap techniques might still be used . |
| 3 | paying for the bloody machine that er |
| 4 | I 'm paying for the lousy thing , and that 's the end of that . " |
| 5 | You 're paying for the two things you 're paying for the opportunity |
| 6 | Those local authorities that are investing in the necessary shredders and mechanical mixers are finding that the savings of landfill charges go a long way towards paying for the environmental gain . |
| 7 | That in turn is simply ( but not uncontroversially ) defined : the buyer is paying for the future flows of cash that the firm is expected to generate , over and above its costs . |
| 8 | If Inchbad married Flame , it would be a very special occasion indeed ; it might be just the occasion when they would want a dish or two of roast Gnome and , more to the point , it would get the Gruagach out of paying for the new Crown Jewels . |
| 9 | As well as paying for the new building , the Goldsmiths also increased the salaries of the Headmaster and Usher , made the School free again to the scholars , and paid the running costs . |
| 10 | Okay , we 've just signed the 8 album deal for 150 squillion quid with the record company , and they 're paying for the new gear . |
| 11 | So the new lines would each need only two workers , the increase in productivity paying for the new control system within a couple of years . |
| 12 | Although there is some truth in this relative deprivation argument , it is equally important to note that the pains of imprisonment are mitigated by pleasant recollections : to be doing ‘ a lot of bird ’ without having lived well seems far more futile and absurd that to be paying for the rich fruits that crime has already brought . |
| 13 | Naturally , apart from the accusation of hypocrisy and of letting Britain solve its marriage problems , the government ends up being accused of allowing divorce for the wealthy and none for the poor , as the cost of going to and staying in Britain and paying for the legal procedures is beyond the pockets of the majority . |
| 14 | An additional complication comes from the fact that Congress has never committed itself to paying for the entire SSC . |
| 15 | 12 Grace Leybourne buttressed such arguments in Education and the Birth Rate by demonstrating that the middle classes and the intelligent were paying for the high costs of education by family limitation at the dysgenic expense of the national interest . |
| 16 | By fixing your rate , you know exactly what you will be paying for the next months . |
| 17 | Mr. Kinnock called the figures , ’ a terrible price the country is paying for the Tory Government . ’ |
| 18 | These are normally a lot less than paying for the whole aircraft over the same short period , but after the term of the lease the aircraft must be sold , or re-financed . |
| 19 | It was the people that were being drawn by the nose and paying for the whole thing . |
| 20 | Only Japan , of the major exporters , remained virtually impervious to import penetration — all the phenomenal growth of manufactured exports being devoted to paying for the soaring import bill for materials ( chapter 12 ) |
| 21 | Local people , who never wanted the event to be held are angry that they could end up paying for the three-day police operation . |
| 22 | A bigger worry is that the plan may not have done enough in three areas : open years , paying for the latest losses and litigation . |
| 23 | It paid for the entire holiday . |
| 24 | ‘ And who paid for the extra deliveries ? |
| 25 | This neatly sums up the sources of wealth , external and internal , which paid for the great Acropolis building programme . |
| 26 | ‘ He paid for the first round out of a fiver and the third with another fiver . |
| 27 | Most analysts are surprised at the price which CSR paid for the American ARC operations . |
| 28 | But in so doing , they ignored a continuing problem ; and they created a new one , for the price they paid for the French troops who solved the English military problem was a monarch who was taught to be French and Catholic , and who would return to her country only when both these things clashed with the prevailing balance of power in Scotland . |
| 29 | Anyway , I paid for the blessed thing . ’ |
| 30 | Wanting to keep their plans secret , and convinced that ‘ no one would fund such a crazy idea ’ , they paid for the initial experiments out of their own pockets . |