Example sentences of "[noun pl] pay for [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their cut will be around 30 per cent of the ‘ dealer ’ price , which is what the shops pay for your record , bearing in mind that your record will only reach the shops if the dealer asks for it . |
| 2 | To remedy this , the Spanish want the EC 's regional funds to pay for its hospitals and schools . |
| 3 | But when away , he burgled offices to pay for his hotel bills . |
| 4 | They did not yet have the economic means to raise enough hard currencies to pay for their oil and gas imports from the Soviet Union , and most of them were burdened with heavy levels of external debt , also denominated in hard currencies . |
| 5 | Alan Jinkinson , the General Secretary of Britain 's biggest public services union , Nalgo , said : ‘ Singling out public sector workers to pay for his mistakes is discriminatory and unfair . |
| 6 | And how the Italians paid for his wastefulness . |
| 7 | why should millions of taxpayers pay for your happiness ? |
| 8 | Why should millions of taxpayers pay for your pay rise ? |
| 9 | The price people and firms pay for their carbon fuels does not reflect the cost to everybody else of filling the atmosphere with greenhouse gases . |
| 10 | If the government sells bonds to pay for its spending , interest rates rise and the private sector is squeeze . |
| 11 | Now they expect responsible customers to pay for their folly . |
| 12 | Make bank Scrooges pay for their greed |
| 13 | Make bank Scrooges pay for their greed |
| 14 | There is no suggestion of worldly success , although the sums paid for his work compared well with those paid to his contemporaries , and his estate is referred to simply as ‘ goods and chattels and debts ’ . |
| 15 | erm And basically the divisions pay for their phone bills . |
| 16 | She owned farms locally and spent her life worrying about Christian slaves in Turkey , for on her death she left the farms to pay for their ransom . |
| 17 | This begs the question : do producers respond only to perceived changes in the prices paid for their products in comparison to those paid for other products irrespective of what is happening to their costs of production ? |
| 18 | It is dangerous for a country to rely on one or two agricultural products to pay for its imports . |
| 19 | Well to-do visitors would have taken it as their right to be given a tour of the house and gardens as they travelled the country in past centuries — today visitors from all over the world come to Blenheim — their entrance fees paying for its up-keep . |
| 20 | I told her how Aisha kept a close watch on what I ate and drank and how I had to take care of the house and children to pay for my board and lodging . |
| 21 | Residents pay for their care according to their means and all will have at least a minimum amount of money for personal use . |
| 22 | There is no question of making nurses pay for their training in those circumstances . |
| 23 | Earth 's richer zones have erred by forcing others to pay for their religion . |
| 24 | Ron Thomson , general manager of Ling Trust , a Colchester-based community care charity , argues that the continued influence of health authority managers in trust affairs invalidated claims of social security cash made by residents to pay for their care . |