Example sentences of "to pay [adv] for the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The West Germans were prepared to pay handsomely for the right to emigrate of hundreds of thousands of German-speaking Romanian citizens whose ancestors had lived in the country for centuries . |
| 2 | If people think that the exchange rate will fall further , importers will buy now before the rate does fall and they have to pay more for the imports . |
| 3 | As a consequence of the technical complexities of reprocessing highly irradiated oxide fuel from AGR and PWR , the Board expects to pay more for the reprocessing of a tonne of these fuels than a tonne of magnox fuel . |
| 4 | District health authorities will in future be asked to purchase this form of care , and social services will be required to pay directly for the advice they need . |
| 5 | He is equally not going to be very happy with hearing that he certainly can have a jetliner on exclusive standby , but will have to pay heavily for the privilege . |
| 6 | Whatever the outcome , the government is bound to have to pay dearly for the consequences of a utopian scheme , which , whatever one 's opinion of the welfare system , was one of its most generous and uncritical offshoots . |