Example sentences of "[n mass] [adj] pay " in BNC.
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| 1 | The £1,800 odd paid on discharge of the local authority mortgage may be ignored for the purposes of the argument . |
| 2 | The field of Old Master and modern drawings has been much less hyped than other markets and rarely sees fireworks like the world record of £4.18 million paid for a Van Gogh drawing in December 1990 . |
| 3 | Kitson 's transfer beats the £1 million paid by manager Arthur Cox for both Dean Saunders four years ago and former Sunderland striker Marco Gabbiadini earlier this year . |
| 4 | The annual costs estimate includes £155 million for a ‘ strengthening of management at all levels , ’ £10.5 million to pay members of health authorities , £15.6 million for administering general practitioner budgets , and £3.3 million for computers to monitor drugs spending . |
| 5 | Labour MPs said Fergie 's romp had badly damaged the monarchy and boosted demands for a review of the £10 million paid annually to the family by taxpayers . |
| 6 | Cast ewes also met an excellent trade and sold to a top of £49 each paid to G Robson , Doagh , for a pen of ten Cheviots . |
| 7 | The pattern is not greatly different from that reported by Jevons for Victorian Britain — the family on $35 000 paying , if anything , a lower percentage than the household on $10000 a year . |
| 8 | $29.7 million paid by Baden-Württemberg for library of 1,300 manuscripts |
| 9 | I feel that there may be people willing to pay a small membership fee to the Institution and forego the receipt of the magazine … which would be an ‘ in addition ’ cost to those willing to pay for it . |
| 10 | Rather , it is that there exist people willing to pay prices lower than Pm , but which are in excess of the marginal costs of providing additional units . |
| 11 | ‘ They will be very popular people — perhaps even more in demand than the producer — and should be able to sign short term contracts that allow them to continually search out the people willing to pay them most money . ’ |
| 12 | Linked to this but not directly invisible earnings is another £1.9 billion paid to British Carriers . |
| 13 | The Washington Post reported in June that $62 million of the $200 million paid to 45 contractors since 1988 had not been used to clean up anything , but had been spent on an overhead named " programme management " . |
| 14 | ( The flotation of Leyland DAF on the Stock Market in 1989 yielded BAe £100 million for the sale of part of its 40 per cent stake in the company ; this compares with £150 million paid by BAe to the government for the whole of the Rover Group , including the Leyland DAF stake ! ) |
| 15 | Father 's going to take you to market tomorrow , where there 'll be crowds of people ready to pay for entertainment ! |
| 16 | The information collected is used to compile the ‘ community charge register ’ — a list of people liable to pay the community charge . |
| 17 | The number of people liable to pay 20 per cent . |
| 18 | Thomas Gunson , of Middlesex , a glass seller , was to he the treasurer or receiver — advancing monies from time to time to carry on the works arid to pay miners or other workmen . |
| 19 | Dr Ryan estimated that the industry would require something in the order of £330 billion to pay for new jetliners over the next eight years . |
| 20 | In September 1986 the Iranians paid $7 million direct into one of North 's three Swiss bank accounts and North drew out $2 million to pay for 500 TOW missiles that were flown direct from America to Iran ( which shows the true price of TOW missiles compared to what Iran was being charged ) . |
| 21 | In 1990 , the DES was forced to set aside an additional £287 million to pay for pensions as so many teachers wanted to take early retirement . |
| 22 | BBA , the automotive parts to aircraft interiors group , yesterday announced it was tapping shareholders for £126 million to pay for expansion in continental Europe . |