Example sentences of "[vb pp] to pay for [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is also a belief that as far as possible people should be made to pay for services provided by the state , partly to reduce public expenditure and taxation , and partly because it is believed that charges will increase public pressure for services to be provided efficiently . |
| 2 | His talks in Madrid with Prime Minister Felipe González ended with a joint political declaration and agreement on a package of economic and cultural agreements included the granting to the Soviet Union of 150,000 million pesetas ( US$1,500 million ) of Spanish credit to be used to pay for imports of Spanish consumer goods . |
| 3 | I question both the justice of all governments and the principle by which my taxes can be used to pay for machines of mass destruction . |
| 4 | Midland eurocheques can be used to pay for goods and services at more than 5 million shops , garages , hotels and restaurants in 28 European countries . |
| 5 | Note that cheques and credit cards , although they are used to pay for goods directly , do not themselves count as money . |
| 6 | Such expenditure is used to pay for items of a relatively short-term nature ( such as wages and postage ) . |
| 7 | Well this is it we 've said like , there 's so much that everybody 's got to pay for non-payers is n't there ? |
| 8 | But you think it 'll kill him from one o'clock in the night till seven o'clock the next morning , it 's , it 's ridiculous and financially were no different because you 've got to pay for digs you 've got to pay for the petrol |
| 9 | And the thing is that when of the , I have n't seen anywhere any kind of poll system , you know , I think it 's a , I 've always thought it outrageous as a women actually , that women have had to pay for toilets , and erm , I mean if we , you know , if we , we might , I mean , I , I would be in favour of a system where , you know , you , say a local Council issues a pass , which you pay for , have differential rates , but it 's like people paying up front for that toilet service . |
| 10 | Part of that money had been allocated to pay for pensions and vehicle leases , but now the force will have to find the money elsewhere or face cutting jobs . |
| 11 | The DHA would find that some of its carefully planned resources are being diverted to pay for services which may not figure in those plans . |
| 12 | He blames the crisis on the fact that the museum has been forced to pay for warders out of its own budget , which has meant that the sum of DM300,000 ( £103,000 ; $186,000 ) per year earmarked for acquisitions has been virtually used up . |
| 13 | More and more parents are now being forced to pay for essentials in a system which should be free . |
| 14 | It shows that an apparently affluent London couple will have virtually nothing left to pay for holidays , consumer durables or for saving under Labour . |
| 15 | Indeed , so visible are the taxes required to pay for services that some taxpayers may never use , that the total of public spending in a democracy is less than it would be if the real needs of society were to be met . |
| 16 | John Cresswell said the Labour group had chosen to pay for repairs on homes in Cockerton when the funding should have been more widely distributed . |