Example sentences of "to [be] paid for [pron] " in BNC.
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1 | Well Yes I suppose that the thing is if she 's having to work extra hours , she ought to be paid for them . |
2 | Five or ten pounds is the price that has to be paid for them and they last six months and they move on to the next , extraordinary approach . |
3 | It was a pleasure to be paid for what I had up until then been doing in my spare time . |
4 | I am sure that the factory in the hon. Gentleman 's constituency would like to be paid for its exports . |
5 | Witnesses willing to be paid for their services would parade outside courthouses . |
6 | People would turn up again in large numbers on Wednesday nights to be paid for their produce . |
7 | Two obvious , and ultimately successful , candidates were cited above ; the first being the alleged right of those elected to Parliament to be paid for their services , and the second the claim that women had a moral right to vote . |
8 | There is often a price to be paid for their advantages ( eg , nuclear energy ) , and biotechnology is unlikely to be any different . |
9 | If a surveyor does his work badly it goes without saying that he can not expect to be paid for it , but usually the client will also wish to claim damages as financial compensation . |
10 | Thatcherism makes intellectual liberty just another commodity , to be enjoyed when there is no particular political or commercial or administrative price to be paid for it , but abandoned , with no evident grief , when the price begins to rise . |
11 | But if we demand to be paid for it , if we demand Wages for Housework from the State , we are saying first of all that housework is work … we are saying that we women need money of our own — if we were n't forced to depend on men for money , we would n't have to put their needs before ours , to service them sexually , physically , emotionally … we say TO BRING UP CHILDREN IS WORK and we want a WAGE for all the work we do — whether cleaning offices OR homes , producing electrical parts OR babies . |
12 | Later , in 1908 , they had to plan once again how to combine their joint ideal of a free domestic relationship with the solitude that Edward 's nature demanded as a price to be paid for his self-discovery as a writer . |
13 | Of course these superior critics disliked the way his films displayed ‘ the grossest sentimentality ’ , but this was the price that had to be paid for his mass popularity and after all , as William Hunter reminded his readers , Dickens had been far more sentimental for very much the same reasons . |