Example sentences of "to pay for [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although Muslims in some areas paid cizye , the burden of this tax bore most heavily on the Christians , who were required to pay for every male of twelve years of age on a sliding scale , according to his assessed wealth . |
| 2 | The tube workers had a whip-round to pay for a taxi to the railway station . |
| 3 | It would be a foolish and expensive form of self-indulgence to pay for a course of treatment just for the pleasure of making up fancy tales about previous incarnations . |
| 4 | ‘ Collectors are very active and are prepared to pay for a painting of a particular breed or artist . ’ |
| 5 | The P/E ratio may be interpreted as the price investors are willing to pay for a unit of earnings . |
| 6 | This ratio gives investors a common yardstick to measure the attitude of the market as a whole to all companies regardless of size or industry by reducing the comparison to the simple question ‘ How much is the market willing to pay for a unit of earnings ? ’ . |
| 7 | The £50,000 it raised last year will help to pay for a researcher at the Department of Cancer Studies at Birmingham University . |
| 8 | With a rolling network we would have been there live to provide them with information of direct concern to all their lives — people , incidentally , who could not afford to pay for a service from any other source . |
| 9 | For Chapman , however , Jack was no less of a bargain , the record fee a small price to pay for a player of his class . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've made an offer to the club to pay for a player on loan myself , ’ said Shilton . |
| 11 | Shilton had said earlier : ‘ I have made an offer to the club to pay for a player on loan myself to cover our injuries in the short term . |
| 12 | It looked a classic case for the Independent Living Fund ( before new claims were abolished by the government in December 1992 ) to pay for a package of care and support which would have helped her cope . |
| 13 | A small price to pay for a game of cowboys and indians . |
| 14 | The main complaint was that Microsoft offered large discounts to PC makers who agreed to pay for a copy of MS-DOS or Windows for every machine they sold , whether or not it was actually loaded with one . |
| 15 | ‘ Well , ’ Swan ventured , ‘ I might be prepared to pay for a copy of the plans . ’ |
| 16 | John , of Pontypridd , Mid Glamorgan , said yesterday : ‘ It was n't until I came to pay for a car at the auction that I realised what I 'd done . |
| 17 | Did any News reader obtain one and would they sell me a copy or allow me to pay for a loan of a negative ? |
| 18 | THE POOL Byatt , a keen swimmer , announced she would use her twenty-thousand-pound winnings to pay for a swimming-pool at her house in France . |
| 19 | Forensic scientists are examining banknotes the three used to pay for a meal at a restaurant just yards from the depot where Ashiq was killed . |
| 20 | The rest of the money was used to pay for a dinner at the Crescent Hotel . |
| 21 | The finance minister , Theo Waigel , wailed that he has no money to pay for a move to Berlin , costed ( depending on the interest of those doing the sums ) at between DM6 billion ( $3.4 billion ) and DM125 billion . |
| 22 | I have been confined almost a year by the dislocation of one of the ankle-bones of my leg , so have not been able to get as far as the Society House , but have enclosed the shilling you was so kind as to pay for a letter from Monsieur du Hamel . |
| 23 | As mentioned earlier , the Convocation Library appeal raises money to pay for a number of journals in the library . |
| 24 | Remember though you will have to pay for the meter to be installed . |
| 25 | In the past two and half years it has risen four times in real terms to pay for the publication of more and more glossy pamphlets such as the parents charter — party political propaganda produced at the taxpayers ' expense . |
| 26 | They 've clubbed together to pay for the instalation of two video cameras , which scan the only road into the neighbouring villages of Purton and Halmore . |
| 27 | A compromise was eventually negotiated in which the space to the west of the building , originally planned as a garden , was devoted instead to a car park and to compensate for this loss of amenity , the Historic Buildings Council then agreed to pay for the provision of the jetty and roof garden . |
| 28 | He said the Royal Mail had agreed to pay for the reprinting of the leaflets but it would be too late . |
| 29 | As athletes prepare for the Olympics , sporting organisations are looking for big sponsorship deals to pay for the trip to Barcelona . |
| 30 | In the event of my dying before remarriage , I DEVISE and BEQUEATH all of my real and personal estate whatsoever and wheresoever not already disposed of as to my freeholds in fee simple and as to my personal estate absolutely to the issue of my union with JACQUELINE MYRTLE MITCHELL , the property to be held in trust for the said issue , the trust allowing monthly sum of not less than FIVE HUNDRED POUNDS to the said JACQUELINE MYRTLE MITCHELL to pay for the upbringing of the said issue , this arrangement to cease on his or her attaining the age of twenty-one years , whereupon a quarter of the remaining estate — whether in freehold property , stocks , shares or chattels shall be granted in perpetuity to the said JACQUELINE MYRTLE MITCHELL , and the remainder to be granted to the said issue . |