Example sentences of "[adv] paid " 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 | In the Nonconformists ' laissez faire way of life , ministers were frequently moving about , usually to a more advantageous and better paid position . |
| 4 | They were better educated and better paid . |
| 5 | Over the medium term , however , the new Teachers ' Pay Review Body is likely to make teaching markedly better paid — nearly half of all secondary school teachers now earn more than £20,000 a year — which will take much wind out of the NUT 's sails . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 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 | Plumber — more women are taking on what used to be traditionally male jobs , mainly because they are better paid . |
| 9 | She switched from singing to comedy because it was better paid . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The properties farmed by tenants or owners in the United Kingdom and some parts of west Germany also used wage labour , but it was better paid , better housed , technically more skilled , and less of it was needed . |
| 12 | Workforces in small firms are generally non-unionized , lower paid and more vulnerable to unemployment , whilst workers in large corporations are highly unionized , better paid and less routinely vulnerable to job losses . |
| 13 | Domestic service was a commonplace of life before the First World War , even among the better paid working-class households . |
| 14 | But such efforts touched few and generally better paid workers . |
| 15 | This was partly because few labouring families even among the better paid could afford double contributions and in such families the needs of the man took priority . |
| 16 | Only in Lancashire were there flourishing women 's societies , since Lancashire had better paid and more regular work for women , in the textile factories , than any other part of the country . |
| 17 | Miners today work with advanced coal-cutting machinery and hydraulic props , they 're safer and they 're better paid . |
| 18 | " I 'm looking for something better paid , " the driver said . |
| 19 | In the sample as a whole , it could be argued , there was a tendency for the brides to be marrying husbands either with white-collar jobs , or in trades slightly better paid than their fathers . |
| 20 | You 'll probably be better paid , and have a better time of it . ’ |
| 21 | This scheme provided for a mixed system of public and private pensions , with many of the better paid and more secure groups of workers able to ‘ contract out ’ into private schemes so long as they were at least as good as the State Earnings Related Pensions Scheme ( SERPS ) . |
| 22 | It 's better paid , is all . ’ |
| 23 | One simple example generalises life-style in terms of four categories , thus : i ) upwardly mobile , ambitious : seeking a better and more affluent life-style , principally through better paid and more interesting work , and a higher material standard of living . |
| 24 | The wives of better paid working class men played their part in the creation of a culture of respectability by the pride they took in their homes . |
| 25 | Other work was less messy , easier and sometimes better paid . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Was it better paid whe in private nursing than in midwifery ? |
| 28 | If a low-ranking muderris wanted to change over to the career of kasabat kadi , moreover , he was immediately better paid : a provision of the Kanunname states that if a 20-akce muderris in the were to become a kadi , he was to be given a 45-akce kadilik . |
| 29 | This report examined the particular needs and problems of one-parent families ( one in ten of families with children by 1971 ) , and many of its recommendations had educational implications : expansion of day care and nursery provision , encouragement of pregnant schoolgirls to continue their education , radical changes in the secondary school curriculum and in the careers guidance offered to girls to enable them to compete equally for better paid , traditionally male jobs , greater home-school contacts with more support from guidance staff for children known to be in one-parent families . |
| 30 | more patients are treated , there are far more doctors and nurses , and they are far better paid , and treatments that were rare in 1979 are now commonplace . |