Example sentences of "to pay for [adj -er] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If taxes rise to pay for bigger spending , growth falters — and taxes , or borrowing , have to go up again . |
| 2 | He has accepted 21 of the 28 recommendations made by the committee , but turned down demands for baggage hold examination and the introduction of a levy on fares to pay for better security . |
| 3 | Notwithstanding the re-election of Mrs Thatcher in 1983 and 1987 , a clear majority of voters have favoured increased taxes to pay for greater expenditure on services such as health , education , and welfare , over tax cutting and programme cutting ( Table 10.1 ) . |
| 4 | On learning their secret , Martin agreed to pay for further development and the cost of the patents taken out on the dephosphorization process in 1877 and 1878 . |
| 5 | I can recall , back in the early ‘ 80s , serious difficulty encountered in the Castle Brand Pension Fund which , when the Company closed , was found to be in serious deficit , as part of that fund had been used to pay for earlier redundancies in that Company . |
| 6 | The government has already promised extra cash to pay for longer transmissions for the BBC 's World Service in Arabic and Persian . |
| 7 | ‘ People are prepared to pay for cleaner water but they are reluctant to finance salary increases of several hundred per cent for chairmen who have been handed the privatisation jackpot . ’ |