Example sentences of "[noun sg] to pay [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've made an offer to the club to pay for a player on loan myself , ’ said Shilton . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | A small entry fee is charged for home games at Saughton which enables the club to pay for equipment , medical supplies , kits and the general running of the club . |
| 4 | You also get free travel accident insurance if you use your card to pay for tickets . |
| 5 | You will also receive a cheque book which you can use with your Auto Cheque card to pay at shops , garages , restaurants etc . |
| 6 | A CROWD of people fought with police officers as they tried to stop a council bailiff taking a car to pay for an outstanding poll tax bill , a court was told yesterday . |
| 7 | Failure to push through the higher taxes would have a serious impact on Labour 's plans to raise extra revenue to pay for improved social benefits , such as higher pensions and child benefit . |
| 8 | It has often been suggested that the active self-government practised by the Athenians was only made possible by the existence of slavery , and perhaps also by the existence of empire as a source of revenue to pay for democracy . |
| 9 | The government needs some tax revenue to pay for national defence or its budget contribution to the European Community . |
| 10 | Government need tax revenue to pay for public goods and to make transfer payments to the poor . |
| 11 | would not produce enough revenue to pay for them . |
| 12 | A new tax could be levied on UK industry to pay for cleaning up contaminated land , according to proposals currently being considered by the Department of the Environment . |
| 13 | A float or imprest ( say £20 ) is kept in the tin to pay for everyday items . |
| 14 | They want the department to pay for the management and care costs involved in running the homes . |
| 15 | When I said I 've got a wedding to pay for , they said to me , well can you think about cancelling it because it 's nonessential spending , and I said |
| 16 | We will also raise the basic rate of income tax by one penny in the pound to pay for the improvements essential to education . |
| 17 | He keeps getting two hundred pound to pay for his petrol . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Defeat was too great a compliment to pay to society . |
| 20 | That way , we are providing those front line services , that Councillor Taylor picked upon and Councillor Parker mentioned , such as Social Services that had been , that that literally been fleeced by the previous administration to pay for their capital projects . |
| 21 | The bid had to be hostile , and Tiphook , since it needed a rights issue to pay for its part of the deal , had to become a joint-bidder . |
| 22 | At that time there was speculation that the UK group might have to pay as much as £1.5 billion and launch a £900 million rights issue to pay for Darty . |
| 23 | None the less , I shall have to cut back on public expenditure , which has for years been outgrowing our capacity to pay for it . |
| 24 | The basis of payment was the subsidy assessment of 1334 , but although this remained in use for the following two centuries , the variations in the extent to which relief was granted in the fifteenth century to communities which had declined in size and wealth since that date suggest that a genuine effort was made to judge their capacity to pay at particular times . |
| 25 | The reasons for this decentralising movement towards the growth of workplace bargaining activity in Western European countries have been in part economic , as a result of generally high employment and continuous economic growth in the post-war years to the mid-1970s along with a varying capacity to pay of separate employers . |
| 26 | Similarly in Germany , industry-wide agreements ( especially in boom periods ) were unable to exhaust the capacity to pay of prosperous firms . |
| 27 | The tube workers had a whip-round to pay for a taxi to the railway station . |
| 28 | The projects were to be of real and lasting value , and able in the long run to pay for themselves . |
| 29 | Some of those homes may already have been hocked by granny to pay for care in her declining years ; and house prices may be depressed as inheritors who already own their homes sell those they inherit . |
| 30 | Were they really ruling huge areas of land when my family 's ambitions were for nothing grander than the next meal and the work to pay for it ? |