Example sentences of "[adj] pay the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1018 the English paid the very large sum of £82,500 , and came to an agreement with the Danes at Oxford which may have marked the formal end of hostilities ; the same year part of Cnut 's fleet sailed to Denmark . |
| 2 | Some pay the gaujos to lay out the body , but in our tribe it was my job . " |
| 3 | Both clubs were prepared to pay the £700,000 Rovers wanted for the 23-year-old , but withdrew when they heard the player 's wage demands . |
| 4 | The distortions which occur under a system of all but exclusively local authority house-building — the tendency to conform to the past rather than the future location of population ( with consequent immobilisation of labour ) , the wrong proportion of houses of different sizes , and the provision of more amenities than those for which tenants are prepared to pay the economic price — these will naturally correct themselves when private building is restored . |
| 5 | Now it 's the oldest and hardest to find unless you are prepared to pay the ridiculous prices of independent fashion shops who 've searched the warehouses of middle America for anything that can be labelled ‘ old school ’ . |
| 6 | The Association was open to anyone resident in the island who was prepared to pay the annual subscription of one guinea . |
| 7 | If you are prepared to pay the first £50 of all claims * yourself , you will be entitled to a premium discount which is normally one sixth of the new premium . |
| 8 | And , if you are prepared to pay the first £50 of any claim yourself , the basic rate is only £1.25 per £1,000 . |
| 9 | But , if you are prepared to pay the first £50 of any claim yourself , you will be entitled to a discount — normally 50p per £1,000 of insurance . |
| 10 | If you are prepared to pay the first £50 of all claims yourself , you will be entitled to a discount on your premium . |
| 11 | They are prepared to pay the same amount of rent as you are at present receiving from it . ’ |
| 12 | These have been viewed with some irritation by Northern regions who feel that their needs have been ignored in the planning of the Tunnel , and that pampered southerners should be prepared to pay the price of their economic success . |
| 13 | It is not rigid : ‘ You can accommodate anything anywhere if you are prepared to pay the price ’ , Walker said . |
| 14 | Companies that had previously been prepared to pay the Institute 's tuition fees , which are higher than for other professional qualifications , now queried it . |
| 15 | The capacity will be needed , but the company can not say when , or how often , but it is prepared to pay the operator to keep an airliner ‘ on standby ’ ready for the eventuality . |
| 16 | But Brusilov understood this and was prepared to pay the price , for he later wrote : ‘ An offensive without casualties may be staged only during manoeuvres … to defeat the enemy , or to beat him off , we must suffer losses , and they may be considerable . ’ |
| 17 | If the people concerned seek legal advice before responding , the correspondence and interviews can take months ; but such people are entitled to do so provided they are also prepared to pay the lawyers ' bills which necessarily follow . |
| 18 | If I told you what you can lay your hands on , if you 're prepared to pay the price , you 'd be astonished . ’ |
| 19 | Although tenants were prepared to pay the higher rents demanded , they also had greater expectations of the building they were contracted to occupy . |
| 20 | In order to make this return , he will be prepared to pay the following fair price for the share today : where P o = fair price of the share , E ( d 1 ) = expected annual dividend per share at the end of year 1 , E ( P 1 ) = expected price of the share at the end of year 1 , E ( ) = expectations ( or forecast ) operator based on all current information ( the average across all market participants ) , r = market-determined discount rate or cost of capital or required rate of return on a firm with this risk class . |
| 21 | ‘ If you were prepared to pay the dowry — ’ |
| 22 | The latter arrangement will only benefit those with minimal technical ability who are prepared to pay the service charges that such an agreement will incur . |
| 23 | Never use words as gambling counters , Harry , unless you 're prepared to pay the score in good coin afterwards . |
| 24 | But , be prepared to pay the penalty if you 're sloppy and get it wrong ! |
| 25 | If Mr Gorbachev believed he could acquire a breathing space through repression , during which the economy could be transformed by unpopular but necessary reforms , he might be willing to pay the price , but this would reverse his strategy of the past three years . |
| 26 | ‘ But Turkey was willing to pay the price [ the US arms embargo ] when it intervened in Cyprus in 1974 . |
| 27 | FA CUP semi-final shoot-outs could be eliminated if clubs or the Football Association were willing to pay the extra police costs for staging replays at short notice , writes Christopher Davies . |
| 28 | Then I told him that my friends had gone off in the wrong direction and that I was willing to pay the owner of the moped for taking a message to them . |
| 29 | Today , fruit and vegetables are available every month of the year , if we are willing to pay the price of importing and employing the latest methods of food preservation . |
| 30 | After all , the work was done , and anyone could take Famagusta now who was willing to pay the price in lives from both sides . |