Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [been] paid to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over £pound1,100 had been paid to strikers in Denmark , £pound 1,000 towards a dispute in Australia [ it cost £pound16 14s 6d to remit that amount ! ] and a further £pound1,000 to dock porters , coal trimmers and gas stokers . |
| 2 | On March 5 India 's Central Bureau of Investigation ( CBI ) filed a First Information Report ( FIR ) in a New Delhi court in connection with allegations that commissions had been paid to Indian middlemen during the government 's purchase of submarines from a West German company , Howaldtswerke Deutsche Werft ( HDW ) , in the early 1980s . |
| 3 | With this type of traffic came the added danger of drugs and/or other contraband brought in to finance themselves , although this combination of smuggling was not common , probably because all their cash had been paid to the organisers of the run . |
| 4 | It was found that scant attention had been paid to raising the cultural level of party members . |
| 5 | Towards the close of the century , large tracts of the Highlands had been surveyed but little or no attention had been paid to the islands . |
| 6 | Ata'i writes that before Ebussu'ud Efendi became kazasker of Rumeli , an office he held from 944/1537 to 952/1545 , no attention had been paid to the registration of and that , consequently , it was possible for individuals to enter the ranks of office-holders each in a different manner . |
| 7 | Until thrombolytics and recanalisation for myocardial infarction , little attention had been paid to this possibility in man , although arrhythmias are associated with reperfusion of ischaemic myocardium in animals . |
| 8 | Livestock in the area had been closely monitored but little attention had been paid to wild fowl . |
| 9 | When passing the 1976 act , it might have been that no particular attention had been paid to a situation in which injuries were sustained before birth , but parliament had clearly stated that a person had to sustain injuries and die from them before relatives could claim damages . |
| 10 | A belated denial that any subsidies had been paid to Neophane did not materialise until June 1991 , when the Italian government explained that extensive inquiries had been necessary because the original allegations lacked detail . |
| 11 | He said that at the original trial , the magazine had no idea £25,000 had been paid to Mrs Sutcliffe by Mail on Sunday reporter Barbara Jones - and nor had the jury . |
| 12 | After proper tribute had been paid to the heroic efforts of its singers and orchestra , the Royal Opera 's general director , Jeremy Isaacs , came on to the stage to make a special presentation to Sir Edward Downes . |
| 13 | Thirty pounds had been paid to Lucrece Ltd , High Street , Kingsmarkham ( his wife 's wedding outfit ? ) and another thirty in the same week , the last week of May , to Excelsior Electrics , Stowerton ( Pertwee 's record player ? ) . |
| 14 | Section 682 provides that income arising under a settlement shall be deemed not to have been distributed if and to the extent that it exceeds the aggregate of : ( i ) the sums , excluding all payments of interest , paid in that year by the trustees of the settlement to any persons ( not being a body corporate connected with the settlement and not being the trustees of another settlement made by the settlor or the trustees of the settlement ) in such manner that they fall to be treated in that year , otherwise than by virtue of s677 above , as the income of those persons for the purposes of income tax , or would fall to be so treated if those persons were domiciled , resident and ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom and the sums had been paid to them there ; and ( ii ) subject to s682(2)– ( 5 ) ( rules for ascertaining undistributed income where interest is paid by trustees ) any expenses of the trustees of the settlement paid in that year which , in the absence of any express provision of the settlement , would be properly chargeable to income , in so far as such expenses are not included in the sums mentioned in para ( i ) above ; and ( iii ) in a case where the trustees of the settlement are trustees for charitable purposes , the amount by which any income arising under the settlement in that year in respect of which exemption from tax may be granted under s505 of TA 1988 exceeds the aggregate amount of any such sums or expenses as aforesaid paid in that year which are properly chargeable to that income . |
| 15 | Section 677 applies as if the capital sum had been paid to the settlor by the trustees of the settlement thus bringing the whole £100,000 worth of income , potentially , into charge to tax under s677 . |
| 16 | He was particularly disturbed by the practice of detaining prisoners until their ‘ board and lodging ’ fees had been paid to the gaoler and wondered why a salary could not be paid to avoid the corruption inherent in the fee system . |
| 17 | they 've , they 've got to put their National , National Ins Insurance stamps , erm , none of the Tax that they 'd stopped from their wages had been paid to the tax man , so apparently there was I do n't see how they 've already paid their employer , |
| 18 | In fact , once taxes had been paid to Istanbul , Egypt was largely left to itself to be governed — and increasingly misgoverned — by an Ottoman-mamluk military oligarchy . |
| 19 | They could come down hard after Dinamo claimed yesterday that the money had been paid to ref Erman Torughu on UEFA orders . |
| 20 | The Communist Party newspaper , Rabotnichesko Delo , revealed that unknown sums of convertible currency had been paid to foreign publishers to produce Mr Zhivkov 's books . |