Example sentences of "to pay for the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Remember though you will have to pay for the meter to be installed . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He said the Royal Mail had agreed to pay for the reprinting of the leaflets but it would be too late . |
| 6 | As athletes prepare for the Olympics , sporting organisations are looking for big sponsorship deals to pay for the trip to Barcelona . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | When my father died , his brother Perry generously undertook to pay for the education of Brian and myself . |
| 9 | A kind word here and a Christmas turkey there is a small price to pay for the loyalty of one 's employees . |
| 10 | It seems odd that I should be expected to pay for the privilege of assisting in this way , in particular , as I doubt that these changes will alleviate the falling numbers of applicants to medical schools in the UK . |
| 11 | Mr. Edminson refers also to many of today 's lady golfers as being professional ladies earning good salaries and who are therefore well able to pay for the privilege of playing golf two or three times a week . |
| 12 | He invited his clients to pay for the privilege of cutting his locks and raised £1,000 for the Chest Heart and Stroke Association . |
| 13 | All of the contradiction comes because when the citizens charter was announced and the Prime Minister increased the costs of the Cabinet Office by £800,000 to pay for the work to be done on it , bringing the cost of the Cabinet Office to £22.5 million , it was announced that the PA consultancy report had been commissioned . |
| 14 | sole practitioners are expected to pay for the dishonesty of partners through their contributions to the Indemnity Fund ; |
| 15 | Then in 1991 VAT was raised again to pay for the reduction in community charge . |
| 16 | He would have to pay for the policing of that out of this year 's money . |
| 17 | Mrs Thatcher will have to be satisfied with the assurances she will receive from Mr Bush , who will tell her that , since defence cuts are politically inevitable , it is far better for modest and planned reductions to be proposed by his cabinet and the Pentagon than for swingeing cuts to be imposed by the US Congress , which is already chafing at the thought of the US budget deficit being deepened to pay for the defence of the wealthy Europeans . |
| 18 | A presumed member of Hizbollah , Ali Mohamed Hariri , is in prison in Switzerland for the murder of a Frenchman on board an Air Afrique airliner during a hijack attempt which ended in Geneva in July 1987 — and Hariri 's release is said here to have been part of the price which the Swiss government secretly agreed to pay for the release of Peter Winkler , the Red Cross official who was freed in Sidon 10 months ago . |
| 19 | Laura was unable to have her transplant on the NHS so Fran and Les launched an appeal which raised the £350,000 needed to pay for the operation in the US . |
| 20 | Wolf Cubs plus one middle-ranking author ( he was always ridiculously modest about his talents ) were a trivial price to pay for the survival of an entire breed of fish . |
| 21 | It 's to pay for the centre until the end of January . |
| 22 | The demand curve DD shows how much consumers are willing to pay for the output of the chemical producer . |
| 23 | His idea was that , as the Masai acquired more and more permanent waters , they would at first acquire more and more cattle ; indeed , the prospect of doing so would be the incentive required to get them to pay for the water in the first place . |
| 24 | Well , on the news just now the speculation was that the dosh is needed to pay for the refurbishment of the ground and not for new players . |
| 25 | Technically , it is on commercial grounds , and they can not recoup the money made from the everyday operation of the reactor to pay for the refurbishment of the reactor , that is true . |
| 26 | But they have to pay for the schooling over there , you know . |
| 27 | Those less wealthy are forced to see their training as a means of gaining work abroad , so as to repay education loans or to pay for the schooling of a younger member of the family . |
| 28 | The imposition of a slightly lighter sentence in a few cases would seem to be a small price to pay for the conviction of more guilty offenders . |
| 29 | The local communities had to pay for the equipment of the men selected and their expenses until they reached the county boundary , after which they served at the king 's wages . |
| 30 | Members of the Stratification and Employment Group at the University of Surrey have previously received grants from the ESRC to pay for the preparation of more accessible versions of the General Household Survey data tapes from the annual surveys of 1973 and 1980 . |