Example sentences of "pay [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They sold for $100 in a market used to paying only $25 and helped to create the ski boom of the 1950s . |
| 2 | In May 1988 , when the mortgage rate stood at 9.8 per cent the same borrower was paying only £221.40 . |
| 3 | Registered charities enjoy relief from full rates , paying only 20% of the charge . |
| 4 | Some companies , he claimed , were paying only lip service to environmental improvements and pollution safeguards . |
| 5 | PLANNERS are paying only lip service to new Government initiatives to keep young people on the land and in countryside jobs , according to the Farmers Union of Wales . |
| 6 | That is why we are opposed to the poorest person in Westminster paying only £3 a week less in council tax than the richest , including some Tory Members . |
| 7 | Students with Aficionado tickets for Code C performances will be paying only £4–40 for each performance . |
| 8 | Lee , who took £11,486 from friends and customers and paid only £6,774 into an account over a 48week period , surrendered herself to police on the day she was due to pay the money out . |
| 9 | The first is that ICL paid only £30m upfront for a business that carried a buyout tag of £29m three years ago , and had substantially increased volume in the interim . |
| 10 | Clinton and Neville of Hornby seem to have been followers of the Earl of Lancaster ; Neville had been taken prisoner at Boroughbridge but was pardoned in return for a fine of £500 , of which he paid only £50 . |
| 11 | The second is a structure , unique in its figures and inscription , in memory of the Waggoners ' Reserve , a volunteer corps of 1,000 local farmworkers , paid only £1 a year , who provided horse-drawn transport carrying vital supplies to the trenches in Europe during the First World War . |
| 12 | In contrast , in the same year foreign-controlled corporations in the US had revenues of $825bn , but paid only $7bn in US taxes . |
| 13 | After the Restoration the keeper of the parish register no longer recorded occupations , but Gough observed that whereas his father paid only 4d. per annum poor rate upon his marriage in 1633 , by the end of the century he ( Gough ) paid almost 20 shillings . |
| 14 | Speaking at the charter 's launch , Jonathon Porritt said that it was extraordinary that " people who are paying perhaps £200 a night are so dirty that they need a new towel every night " . |
| 15 | Single students sharing a University-controlled flat will be paying approximately £40 per week , exclusive of the cost of heating , lighting , telephone , food etc .. |
| 16 | Single students sharing a University-controlled flat will be paying approximately £40 per week , exclusive of the cost of heating , lighting , telephone and food , etc . |
| 17 | Red Rhino paid Best £500 ( in cash , at his agent 's request ) to pose with the group and nabbed one of the bargains of the decade . |
| 18 | Coventry paid just £10,000 to bring wonder-kid Peter Ndlovu from Zimbabwe to Highfield Road . |
| 19 | Sheffield Wednesday boss Trevor Francis is hoping for the same kind of bargain with Tishkov as Ferguson discovered when he paid just £650,000 for Kanchelskis . |
| 20 | Wayne 's grandparents , Ken and Pat Peckham , paid just £1,700 for Champ whose marathon exploits quickly made him the people 's champion . |
| 21 | The company paid approximately £39 000 to Salomon for the business . |
| 22 | By 1986 , however , there was a total of 200,000 families in receipt of FIS , and of these , 69 per cent were paying both tax and national insurance contributions , and 25 per cent were paying national insurance contributions only ( Hansard , 23 February , 1987 , col. 128 ) . |
| 23 | Blue Circle is paying same-again dividends of 11¼p from earnings of 13.6p . |
| 24 | When fishing does get underway Burton Mere will be an exclusive water with a strict limit of 10 anglers a day paying about £10 each . |
| 25 | The US , which is paying about $4 million for each missile , rightly points out , and sometimes ruefully , that the nations of Western Europe asked for the weapon to be deployed in the first place . |
| 26 | Reckon on paying about £25,000 for a habitable , two-bedroom detached cottage in Western Normandy . |
| 27 | NEC Corp last week firmed up its agreement with Control Data Systems Inc under which it will acquire a 4.99% stake in the company , paying about $5.3m . |
| 28 | Well yes , but there is a limit , which you hit when you find you are paying about £80 for two , excluding drinks . |
| 29 | The British government is paying about £16 million to modernise Greenham Common and Molesworth to take cruise missiles , and is contributing some 220 security guards . |
| 30 | The club are paying about £30,000 a week in interest charges . |