Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] to pay " in BNC.
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| 1 | It means that money to pay for your current fuel consumption , and towards the arrears you owe , is taken from your benefit each week and paid direct to your fuel account . |
| 2 | He had a regular mistress and he drew out that money to pay her off before he married the other one . ’ |
| 3 | The hon. Gentleman must answer this question : how can he argue that it is in patients ' interests to move away from a system of competitive tendering and use that money to pay trade union members rather than to pay for extra treatment for patients ? |
| 4 | In its origin feudalism provided for the recruitment of vitally needed cavalry troops in a society which lacked the liquid money to pay troops in cash . |
| 5 | Secondly , that liability to pay can only arise if the company goes into liquidation . |
| 6 | Would the promise of a complete stranger to pay a mother to maintain her illegitimate child be binding on the promisor ? |
| 7 | Israel felt emboldened to ask America for massive extra economic aid to pay for the damage caused by the state of emergency , the prolonged military alert — and the arrival of hundreds of thousands of new Soviet Jewish immigrants . |
| 8 | After a three-week hearing the court found in favour of Lee and ordered the Far Eastern Economic Review to pay damages of S$230,000 . |
| 9 | erm each side to pay its own costs |
| 10 | Thus Southwark , which exports 70% of adults needing residential care , will not receive adequate funding to pay for future placements . |
| 11 | Mr Court was a principal architect of this Society as it is today and I am grateful for this opportunity to pay tribute to the very considerable part he has played in the development of the Society over the past 16 years . |
| 12 | I am taking this opportunity to pay tribute to them for their dedication , time and support over the years . |
| 13 | Will my hon. Friend take this opportunity to pay tribute to the workers in the electricity industry who , despite foul weather and difficult circumstances , managed to restore supplies so swiftly ? |
| 14 | I take this opportunity to pay tribute to my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for all the work that he has done in the past two and a half years to improve the future and administration of Northern Ireland . |
| 15 | The argument that Charles needed sound money to pay off Vikings is not convincing . |
| 16 | I do n't understand this bit to pay a basic award of compensation following an order . |
| 17 | They have been indoctrinated for nearly forty years with the belief that their right to this pension does not arise simply out of a public decision to pay it but is a right vested in the individual by virtue of certain payments made by him , and analogous to what would be his entitlement under a contract with an insurance company . |
| 18 | Each health authority will retain some money to pay for referrals by GPs to hospitals which are not covered by existing agreements on services . |
| 19 | The ego , as says , is open to the outside world and furthermore to stimulations from inside , from inside the body , that reach it through subjective sensations like hunger when you need food , or fear when something threatens you , and cognitive er awareness like er okay you realize that before you have your lunch you 're gon na have to go to the bank to get some money to pay for it . |
| 20 | He was ordered at the Old Bailey to pay £300 compensation . |
| 21 | Pound 's exasperated bewilderment before the spectacle of British loyalty to the amateur , and British readiness to pay the price in tolerance of the amateurish , is nowhere so evident as in his lifelong esteem for Laurence Binyon , the editor of the Hewlett Letters . |
| 22 | Enterprises that needed foreign exchange to pay for imports or for other purposes were then to make application to the banks , which were to determine the amount of each enterprise 's ‘ socially verified needs ’ , based on its use of foreign exchange in the previous year and its export performance in that year . |
| 23 | Finding the foreign exchange to pay for permissions may be difficult , especially as multinational publishers often change high prices for the use of material . |
| 24 | The country found itself during 1990 and in the early part of 1991 in a vicious circle of falling productivity and chronic shortages caused by the lack of foreign exchange to pay for imports . |
| 25 | The first is that , since it is difficult for each authority to make its decision within the framework of a general view of social needs and social capacity to pay , the total amount of taxation tends to be raised above what it would be in a more unified system . |
| 26 | ‘ People on low incomes will be getting some help to pay the fuel bills and all in all it 's a Budget that 's not as bad as we expected , ’ Mr Bull said . |
| 27 | Until recently , European countries have been far more willing than America for the public sector to pay much of the cost for cleaning up . |
| 28 | ‘ I do n't think it is fair to expect this lady to pay for a new lock . |
| 29 | The purchaser should reserve the express right to pay the creditors directly out of the retention on behalf of the vendor . |
| 30 | means I 've got earn three and a half thousand pounds f five thousand pounds erm at some point to pay |