Example sentences of "[vb infin] for the [noun] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Twice before she 'd had proposals of marriage and had rejected them because she could n't feel for the men they came from . |
| 2 | Although it sought to make schools accessible , it also held that attendance at them should be voluntary , that pupils should pay for the instruction they received , that public education should be developed gradually rather than immediately , and that , although schools would still be run by different agencies , societies and private individuals , they should teach the same things and be managed identically . |
| 3 | Its attempt to make farmers pay for the pollution they caused had been overturned by the environmentally primitive MAFF . |
| 4 | Measures that drive up the costs of waste disposal may appear to fulfil the principle that polluters should pay for the dirt they create ; but they also encourage waste to end up where it should not . |
| 5 | The skills are there to be bought : the problem is that many farmers have an exaggerated notion of the kind of worker that they can obtain for the money they are willing to offer , as well as an outdated conception of what the farm worker 's skills would fetch in industry . |
| 6 | ‘ They will settle for the devil they know . |