Example sentences of "not [been] paid for " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | On the Moscow Petrograd line workers reported in the middle of February that they had not been paid for all January ; in the Caucasus the backlog in August stretched back to October 1921 . |
| 3 | They have not been paid for aerial installation work which BSB had promised to subsidise . |
| 4 | Selling goods that have not been paid for appears to need redress . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Digfar was run almost entirely by local Somali staff — 25 doctors and nearly 100 nurses — who had not been paid for over two years . |
| 9 | In April 1983 , teachers reported that in some areas they had not been paid for four months and 828 schools had been closed down . |
| 10 | Later , when they had not been paid for by the defendant , the plaintiff brought an action for payment of the sum due against the defendant . |
| 11 | In fact , sir , even this headstone has not been paid for . ’ |
| 12 | They differ in that in the case of prepayments the exact amount is known and has been paid although the services have yet to be received whereas in the case of an accrual the service has been received but has not been paid for and we have to estimate the amount due . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | WORKERS at Monktonhall Colliery , who have not been paid for seven weeks , are to receive financial assistance from Lothian Regional Council to fund an independent study into the pit 's viability . |
| 16 | We will probably have to prove that we have not been paid for the consignment . |
| 17 | He 'd explain that in the kerfuffle last night he had n't been paid for the jobs he 'd done . |
| 18 | Most of his staff are currently on strike because they have n't been paid for two months , so Soliz is going personally to open the new group and give the first lesson . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The players have n't been paid for three months , so who in their right mind wants to rescue them ? |