Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [modal v] pay [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In public debate , who pays what is invariably presented in marginal tax terms — that is , what a taxpayer will pay on an additional pound in income . |
| 2 | such a programme would pay for itself within five years , and save fuel worth something like £2800 million a year . |
| 3 | The higher a man 's rank , the better the mount he was expected to have , so that the horse of a knight could cost twice that expected of an esquire , while a banneret might , in turn , pay double the price a knight-bachelor could pay for his . |
| 4 | This stipulates that a polluter should pay for the repair of environmental damage . |
| 5 | It is incredible that the Labour party proposes that there should be no limit on the tax that a widow would pay on the house in which she has lived all her life . |
| 6 | Such a gene could pay for itself if it motivated little girls to in fact compete with their brothers for what their brothers might otherwise er get uncontested . |