Example sentences of "[noun pl] [modal v] pay [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most parents will pay £1 in £9.33 on residual income between £11,500 and £14,700 , £1 in £6.66 on income up to £21,600 and £1 in £5.33 above that level . |
| 2 | Yorkshire , which last year made £13.1m profits must pay £37.7m to the Government for the privilege of broadcasting . |
| 3 | About 80% of tax payers will pay 26% income tax plus the 9% from National Insurance ( a combined rate of 35% ) |
| 4 | Meanwhile , higher-rate tax payers will pay 5p in the pound more on their dividends , adding a further £200 million to Treasury coffers . |
| 5 | As part of a settlement worked out with the help of the US Environment Protection Agency , the two mills will pay $5.8 million in fines and spend more than $50 million on reducing the levels of dioxins and other toxic compounds they discharge into the Pacific Ocean . |
| 6 | Volume users should pay 30% to 40% less than on analogue cellular , lower-volume users will get three times as many minutes for the same price as cellular . |
| 7 | ‘ One day there will be a boy wonder , like Baggio in Italy , and one of our clubs will pay £5 million . |
| 8 | Islandia , New York-based Computer Associates International Inc says it is now shipping CA-Clipper 5.2 , which it says improves performance , extending its functionality and providing better links to foreign data : it costs $800 , and is offered to existing users at $150 ; users of dBase or compatibles will pay $200 . |
| 9 | ‘ Scrap merchants will pay 45p per kilo for empty drinks cans , provided they are crushed into a shape that 's easily handled , ’ he said . |
| 10 | A group of 15 European firms in a range of businesses have come together to create the European Software Institute to improve skills in developing computer software : the Institute , to be based in Bilbao , Spain , will work with customers on software processes and methodology , according to Compagnie des Machines Bull SA vice-president Georges Grunberg , who is the acting chairman ; the other founders are Bilbao Bizkaia Kutxa SA , GMD SA , Eritel SA , Finsiel SA and Iberdrola SA from Spain , British Aerospace Plc , the Electricity Supply Board , Lloyd 's Register and Logica Plc , Sema Group Plc , Cap Gemini Sogeti SA , Telecom Ireland , Siemens-Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG and Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA ; each of the founders will pay $118,000 a year for three to five years to fund the Institute , which will have a staff of about 50 ; it hopes to build its membership up to between 100 and 300 companies in the medium term . |
| 11 | Each of the founders will pay $118,000 a year for three to five years to fund the Institute , which will have a staff of about 50 . |
| 12 | Those with two adults will pay £682 , compared with a £489 poll tax . |
| 13 | The normal ( residential ) cost is £295 , but Ideal Home subscribers will pay £250.75 . |
| 14 | America Online Inc is challenging Prodigy Services Co , which just announced plans to charge usage fees for the most heavily-used databases on its viewdata service , by cutting prices to its own 250,000 subscribers : the company says it deliberately waited until after the Prodigy announcement to disclose its new pricing , hoping to maximise attention for its move and woo subscribers away from the IBM Corp-Sears , Roebuck & Co joint venture ; under its new plan , subscribers will pay $9.95 a month for five hours of access to all its services , a rate that it claims is less than half the price of Prodigy 's new tariff ; extra hours will cost $3.50 each ; at Prodigy , subscribers pay $14.95 a month for unlimited access to many of the features but from July 1 will pay surcharges after spending two hours on widely-used bulletin boards . |
| 15 | Others will pay £125 ( plus VAT ) . |
| 16 | MORE than 19 million employees will pay £3 a week less in national insurance contributions and more than two million pensioners will be able to work without reducing their state pension entitlement following changes which came into force this month . |