Example sentences of "[being] paid for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The purchase is being paid for with £1.1m cash and the balance satisfied by a share issue , which has been underwritten . |
| 2 | The higher price being paid for environmentally sound produce also means that , despite the smaller crop , his income will stay much the same . |
| 3 | Ellis declined to say how much the Royal Hong Kong Jockey Club is being paid for the service , but this is not money which British racing is missing out on , as a contract , subject to review after three years , was drawn up with the Racecourse Association at the beginning of SIS transmission . |
| 4 | Thailand is keen to follow Hong Kong , but has reservations about the sums of money being paid for the resettlement of the boat people . |
| 5 | Brian Lane ( schoolteacher ) : ‘ One thing I remember about David was something that he did n't take part in , which was a concert held at the school in aid of a pavilion that was being put up by the parents and teachers , and being paid for by them . |
| 6 | Many firms in manufacturing and repair operations use outworkers who perform the work in their own homes , being paid for each completed piece . |
| 7 | It 's eerie walking silently between these ghost summer villages that must have once echoed to children playing , women gossiping and men complaining about being paid for their labours with books of Gaelic poetry . |
| 8 | This cost consciousness can be generated if you attend certain meetings yourself and lead a discussion about the price being paid for such activity . |
| 9 | In practical terms what was at stake was the need to close the price scissors , as Trotsky termed it , that is , the disparity between the high prices for industrially produced consumer goods and means of production , compared to the prevailing world market prices , and the prices being paid for agricultural produce . |
| 10 | As ever , the continuing disposal of Zeppelin material was a highlight , over £3,000 being paid for a Hindenberg coffee cup and saucer ! |
| 11 | Flight magazine Vols 1–8 sold for £500 and posters , so often featured in Collectair , received an enthusiastic welcome , some £460 being paid for an Imperial Airways HP.42 Travel in Comfort example . |
| 12 | The offer of Mr. L. H. to pay the full cost of treatment of his wife at St. Peter 's Hospital was gladly accepted , and a 64-year-old widow was transferred to the ‘ private class ’ at Three Counties Mental Hospital , the cost of certification and removal being paid for by her son . |
| 13 | Predictably they said that the money should be going into the overall prize fund ; and , equally predictably , the sponsors replied that the money was being paid for Krantz to head up a special promotion for the company , and anyway they wanted some extra glamour and colour which a top American golfer would provide . |
| 14 | The cost of the clinical consequences of their research is currently met by central funding , their research itself being paid for by the Medical Research Council , charities , and the pharmaceutical industry . |
| 15 | The airlift will build a total of three kilometres of paths at an average cost of about £30 a metre , with the whole operation being paid for by the Countryside Commission . |
| 16 | The work , which is being paid for out of the memorial fund launched after Whillans ' death , began recently and is due to be completed by this autumn . |
| 17 | But that was what he was being paid for and after hearing Mobuto at the United Nations he was now more determined than ever to ensure his safety . |
| 18 | However , since drivers ' wages are already being paid for full shifts , Dobbs ( 1979 ) argues that the extra costs of providing more off-peak buses on low demand routes is not very great . |
| 19 | In the late fifth-century Babylonian satrapy ‘ bow land ’ and ‘ chariot land ’ were given away on condition that the owners for the time being paid for soldiers or cavalry . |
| 20 | Erm , only three scholarship , but then of course , you got the er governors free places , which were nearly the same , and then the number who were being paid for . |
| 21 | She told him about open heart surgery , and lasers ; about credit cards and the cost of living , and the vast expense involved when buying a moderately sized residence like Rose Cottage , which he regarded as little short of scandalous , totally unable to begin to comprehend such vast sums of money being paid for such a relatively small return . |
| 22 | If you feel , having read this , that you could handle the demands of a job that entails sinking your toes into plus , deep-pile carpet , lounging back in a comfy armchair sipping coffee whilst viewing Edinburgh 's citizens going about their lawful occasions and being paid for the privilege , forget it — we got here first . |
| 23 | FEES of around £150 a week are being paid for fictitious entertainment . |
| 24 | Under the Law Society 's Scheme , representatives who are not accredited will have a period of six months during which they can develop their skills by being paid for work on less serious cases . |
| 25 | I thought that was what I was being paid for . |
| 26 | Lucker points out that his contract comes to a close in Chicago and he is not being paid for anything he is n't doing , and he is not doing anything he is n't paid for . |
| 27 | That is why , through the know-how fund , endless new ideas and help available , which are being paid for by this country to assist with the production and distribution of food . |
| 28 | Officers are working huge amounts of overtime and they are not being paid for it . |
| 29 | But once the new proposals are implemented , school work will be funded and we will face either the impossible position of teachers being paid for doing nothing or the arrangements will cease to exist . |
| 30 | The island parable focuses not upon the reactions of workers and employers to what may turn out to be imaginary variations in the real wage rate but upon the reactions of producers to variations in the prices being paid for their products . |