Example sentences of "pay for the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But now he was going into space , and when he had made his fortune he would pay for the whole of Mali to be irrigated so it was as green as France . |
| 2 | Transport academics argue that road pricing would make drivers pay for the cost of congestion . |
| 3 | Developers should pay for the cost of the additional traffic that they generate . |
| 4 | America is likely to have a current-account surplus in the first or second quarter of this year , thanks to the $40 billion-50 billion promised by foreign governments to help pay for the cost of the Gulf war . |
| 5 | A coal-fired power station could be dismantled straight away and the value of the scrap materials would roughly pay for the cost of the work . |
| 6 | Electricity consumers are paying a levy which goes to Nuclear Electric to help pay for the cost of removal and disposal of radioactive plant when existing nuclear power stations reach the end of their operating lives . |
| 7 | There nevertheless remain some aspects of the scheme which demonstrate how difficult it seems to be for government to jettison the original ideas of the Beveridge Report ; for example , the Invalid Care Allowance ( ICA ) , which was introduced as recently as 1976 , is not payable to married women on the grounds that they are likely to be at home anyway and hence not in need of compensation for giving up paid work in order to care for a chronically sick person in their household ( Groves and Finch , 1983 ) ; the tax system ( which is not under detailed discussion here ) still assumes that all men need an additional allowance to help pay for the cost of ‘ keeping ’ a wife . |
| 8 | It has been estimated the Sweden has 65,000 wells , that is 15–20 per cent of all private wells , which are acidified to the extent that they are eligible to receive government grants to help pay for the cost of restoring water quality . |
| 9 | This clause makes clear that we will not pay for the cost of replacing any undamaged item or parts of items forming part of a set or suite when damage occurs within a clearly identifiable area or to a specific part . |
| 10 | If one of a pair of riding boots is damaged the other boot can not be used on its own and we should pay for the cost of a new pair . |
| 11 | If you have to go away from the office on official business ES will pay for the cost of travel . |
| 12 | Other principles accepted by the declaration were : i ) that the polluter should pay for the cost of the clean-up ; ii ) that environmental damage should be guarded against even if there were no apparent scientific reasons for doing so — the " precautionary principle " ; iii ) that women have " a vital role in environmental management and development " ; and iv ) that , while nations have a right to exploit their own resources , they must not damage the environments of other states . |
| 13 | The city authorities of Bremerhaven have signed an agreement with the Bremen businessman and art collector Hans Grothe , whereby the industrialist will pay for the construction of a new contemporary art museum ( likely to cost DM21 million ( £7.3 million ; $12.7 million ) and will endow it with his collection of contemporary art works . |
| 14 | Alternatively it can be seen as the maximum amount the firm can pay for the opportunity of making the investment , without being worse off financially . |
| 15 | Alternatively it can be seen as the maximum amount the firm can pay for the opportunity of making the investment , without being worse off financially . |
| 16 | AID could pay for the road through its Economic Support Fund . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'll pay for the call of course . ’ |
| 18 | Employers may pay for the provision of furniture/household equipment and pay for or subsidise the costs of supplying gas , electricity , water and telephones . |
| 19 | 7.7.9.2 to pay to the Landlord on demand with Interest the amount of such insurance money so irrecoverable in which event the provisions of clauses 7.5 and 7.6 shall apply ] It is not unreasonable for a lease to contain a provision that the tenant will pay for the reinstatement of premises where insurance has been vitiated subject to a limitation being placed on the persons who can trigger this provision and possibly subject to the tenant being allowed to receive the payable insurance money as the reinstatement progresses . |
| 20 | Israel wo n't and should n't pay for the freedom of Kuwait |
| 21 | ‘ It has failed to debate the key question of who should pay for the clean-up of contaminated drinking water . ’ |
| 22 | He attempted to preserve from what he called the ‘ growing appetites of sacrilegious cormorants ’ Church revenues which could pay for the education of talented children of poor families . |
| 23 | In nineteen eighty nine , Mrs Margaret Thatcher said , I do not see why we should pay for the education of conflict . |
| 24 | Suppose I suggest to you that we stop part of your wages to help pay for the damage to the china and to Mrs Darrell 's dignity , and you promise to be good in future ? ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Someone must pay for the Privilege of having me spend valuable time in directing the operations of bone-headed policemen like you ! |
| 26 | Whenever motorists used a particular section of road they would pay for the upkeep of the road and for the congestion they caused . |
| 27 | Could we just quickly , who should pay for the training of the trustees , employer or the trust ? |
| 28 | And England 's private schools , whose pupils account for a quarter of sixth-formers and of A-level passes , know that parents will pay for the prospect of a smooth path to university . |
| 29 | There remained talk that the new king would pay for the destruction of the threshing machines which the agricultural workers believed lay at the root of their misery , and there were stories that the new police — the ‘ peelers ’ — had been armed with 6000 cutlasses from the Tower . |
| 30 | This stipulates that a polluter should pay for the repair of environmental damage . |