Example sentences of "[noun] have [adv] been paid for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Columbia 's recent spending spree has partly been paid for by Sony . |
| 2 | Dentists have traditionally been paid for filling holes ; people are unwilling to pay them for much else . |
| 3 | SIX weeks after the Braer disaster , Shetland farmed salmon may be starving to death because compensation has not been paid for losses , writes Auslan Cramb . |
| 4 | Bert Brown , the consortium 's sales and marketing director , said : ‘ It is true that the miners have not been paid for the last seven weeks . |
| 5 | In fact , sir , even this headstone has not been paid for . ’ |
| 6 | The fact that goods have not been paid for does not prevent ownership in them passing to the purchaser unless , of course , they are subject to a properly communicated and valid retention clause . |
| 7 | Music has always been written for a purpose , be it a wedding , a funeral or a birth , and people have always been paid for it . |
| 8 | The UN knows that much of the Cambodian army has not been paid for some time , so , until a new government takes over , it is considering paying the troops itself . |
| 9 | March has been part of the Grand Prix racing scene for more than 20 years , but recent lack of sponsorship has meant staff at Bicester have n't been paid for over 5 months . |
| 10 | The players have n't been paid for three months , so who in their right mind wants to rescue them ? |
| 11 | She knows from home that many trains do not run because thousands of peasants have not been paid for hauling wood to the engine fuel-dumps for the whole of 1920–1 , and so have refused to carry on . |
| 12 | The makeshift team of veteran professionals and apprentices have n't been paid for three months and the club must find a quarter of a million pounds to guarantee survival . |
| 13 | The army itself seems unsure of this proposition , perhaps because it is waiting to see who is most likely to meet its wage bill : many soldiers have not been paid for months . |
| 14 | Government grants to local authorities have now been paid for well over a century . |