Example sentences of "[adv] paid [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ottomar de Souza Pinto , a governor of Roraima state , which will lose 45 per cent of its territory to the park , has personally paid bail for the gold-miners jailed under Operation Free Jungle . |
| 2 | Protestants who should have known better paid tribute to the Antichrist , the spiritual leader of the disloyal Catholics . |
| 3 | Deep down , however , and reading his own comments about always having to fight for employment and never being superbly successful , one ca n't help feeling he actually yearned for the stability that steady and better paid work would bring . |
| 4 | The courts will not take the incidence of future inflation into account in calculating the dependency , but if it is established that the deceased would have increased his income in the future for reasons other than inflation ( eg because he would have been promoted if he had remained in his job or because he would probably have attained higher and better paid skills or a better paid job if he had lived ) this might give grounds for increasing the multiplicand . |
| 5 | By 1845 Thomas was clearly more versatile , putting far more time in at the mine , performing better paid tasks such as kibble filling , and waggoning from the Deep Level to the dressing floors . |
| 6 | In the Nonconformists ' laissez faire way of life , ministers were frequently moving about , usually to a more advantageous and better paid position . |
| 7 | Moreover the situation is likely to remain insecure , since in the longer term nationals of the Gulf countries will be preferred for better paid employment . |
| 8 | The supply of domestic staff in Britain had dwindled after the First World War , when former servants found better paid employment for fewer hours ' work in offices and factories . |
| 9 | But such efforts touched few and generally better paid workers . |
| 10 | But by August 1897 they had still only paid £100 , and the teachers lost their travelling privileges . |
| 11 | Waldheim , a former UN Secretary-General , had been banned from entering the United States , and during his term as President had only paid visits to various Islamic countries ( including Iraq and Iran — see pp. 37759 ; 38309 ) and to the Vatican . |
| 12 | Course they got away with income tax out of that because they were n't , they were n't much erm to do with income tax that time , I mean my tax at that time of the year was about , at that time was about four pound a year when I was erm , when I was working and you only paid income tax once a year . |
| 13 | Cutting bricks is another fault of Russ , it 's all commonsense actually if you think about it , I mean actually we 've drove round at night looking at people 's walls and things like that and some were absolutely appalling , they 've obviously paid money to have that done , so you , you , you can see it do n't have to be absolutely perfect |
| 14 | Mr Aldous believes that the profession should set out clearly what it is about and re-establish the Institute 's lead in auditing and accounting matters : ‘ How about a legislative Council of highly paid members , all of whom were obliged to resign from all other paid posts ? ’ |
| 15 | There can be no middle class with even those who are highly paid , they are highly paid members of the working class , they 're not middle class . |
| 16 | My husband , a fairly highly paid scientist , was made redundant last March . |
| 17 | But still the pageant rolled on towards its most highly paid performance of all . |
| 18 | The highly paid management must manage ! effectively , accountably and positively , and market this wonderful resource . |
| 19 | And Charlie was probably the most highly paid chauffeur in London . |
| 20 | I do n't really believe it will ever be made ; I am just providing the raw material which Letterman and some highly paid specialist screenwriter are going to work up into a proper script . |
| 21 | Just as surely the sponsors will only want to pay the best and the number of highly paid players may fall . |
| 22 | Liverpool have always admitted they need Europe to pay their way and when it went they were left with highly paid players on long-term contracts — and the books did n't balance . |
| 23 | Herman , for instance , queries whether ‘ elaborate compensation systems ’ are necessary to motivate ‘ highly paid executives nurtured to be ‘ achievers ’ in any case ’ . |
| 24 | Witness the serried ranks of highly paid company chairmen who maintain , in the face of incontrovertible evidence to the contrary , that the Eighties enriched us , that we are immeasurably better off as a result of the Thatcher experiment than we would have been without it . |
| 25 | Their only chance of such would be to marry a wealthy man , because as source A also describes , before 1919 no woman was allowed a complete education , and therefore they never achieved positions in highly paid jobs , such as lawyers . |
| 26 | Which is the most highly paid post in the Cabinet ? |
| 27 | It dealt with something about which I had been writing to Social Security Ministers for about six months — abuse of the benefit-in-kind regulations , whereby highly paid people were paying themselves in gilt unit trusts . |
| 28 | But the image of highly paid newcomers benefiting from a rapidly inflated housing market at the expense of low income natives is a broadly accurate assessment of LDDC 's record . |
| 29 | Originally administrative and curatorial , this highly paid office had long before been transformed into a post for the chapel 's principal musician ; Ludford 's duties included those of participating in singing the services and playing the organ , and , doubtless , directing the performance of polyphonic music . |
| 30 | However , given that the majority of employees receive earnings which are below the £17,200 threshold , the 29 per cent rate is clearly imposed on a wide range of incomes , from the lowest to the relatively highly paid employee . |