Example sentences of "to pay for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having reached the limits of the contractual arrangements with local purchasing consortia ( DHA 's ) there 's simply no more money from that quarter to pay for non-emergency treatment or operations . |
| 2 | You do n't have to pay for parking or petrol and it 's much quicker than walking . |
| 3 | A promise to pay a sheriff in consideration of his performing his legal duty , a promise to pay for discharge from illegal arrest , are to be found in the books as promises which the law will not enforce : see the cases cited in paragraph 326 , footnote 2 of Halsbury 's Laws of England ( 4th ed. , 1974 ) , Vol. 9 . |
| 4 | HUNDREDS of millions of dollars of Iraqi oil money were ordered to be seized last night to pay for relief aid to the Kurds . |
| 5 | The higher the rates of interest on other assets , the lower will be the price that people will be prepared to pay for bills ( and hence the higher their rate of discount ) . |
| 6 | University halls of residence had to pay for students . |
| 7 | It accuses the company of imposing American business practices and ignoring ‘ traditional French negotiation ’ in refusing to pay for cost overruns . |
| 8 | It 's costing half a million pounds this year to pay for bed and breakfast . |
| 9 | " The emeralds fetched enough to gain the physician 's goodwill and to pay for board and passage back to England when I was ready . |
| 10 | No one wanted to pay for music ; the general feeling was that it should flow free from the celestial spheres . |
| 11 | But this was a small price to pay for insurance against a leadership sell-out . |
| 12 | In any event , if great prominence came to be given to APR , many people could be misled about the comparative value of competing credit arrangements ; partly because our calculations show that small and sometimes insignificant differences in what the buyer actually has to pay for credit can make for huge and therefore misleadingly imposing differences in APR ; partly because it will tend to make longer-term borrowing look more attractive than shorter-term borrowing even when ( given that the great majority of people prefer to pay off their debts as quickly as possible ) this may not be best for people . |
| 13 | People who get attendance allowance get that allowance to pay for attendance , and home help is attendance . |
| 14 | Oil production , the chief earner of money to pay for grain and other imports , is falling sharply . |
| 15 | But the daughter 's silence on this matter is a measure of the price you have to pay for survival . |
| 16 | David Howell , chairman of the Commons Foreign Affairs Select Committee , said China would recognise that ‘ destabilising and smashing Hong Kong is far too high a price to pay for China 's hopes in the modern world . ’ |
| 17 | Ministers will clash over how far they intend to pay for capital spending projects by freezing the pay of public sector workers like teachers , nurses and doctors , or limiting rises to two per cent . |
| 18 | Local authorities are free to pay for capital spending from revenue and thus balance the benefits of capital and revenue spending against each other . |
| 19 | To lose the dress , the white Peruvian wedding dress , was a small price to pay for escape . |
| 20 | The number of their monthly transactions and the average value of these transactions has also been growing as they transfer monies from their savings accounts to pay for surveys , place a deposit with estate agents and so forth . |
| 21 | The authorities ' ability to pay for reforms was diminishing at a time when the gentry 's lack of enthusiasm for restructuring their finances was as great as ever . |
| 22 | It shows that an apparently affluent London couple will have virtually nothing left to pay for holidays , consumer durables or for saving under Labour . |
| 23 | And the Dallams were not expecting the Nation to pay for Tristan . |
| 24 | Pensioners are aware that they do not have to pay for ITV or any other channels but that they are called upon to pay for BBC television programmes . |
| 25 | Part of that money had been allocated to pay for pensions and vehicle leases , but now the force will have to find the money elsewhere or face cutting jobs . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | However , we urgently need around £2,000 to £2,500 to get it printed and to pay for postage . |
| 28 | However , we urgently need around £2,000 to £2,500 to get it printed and to pay for postage . |
| 29 | Assume a German importer has $4m to pay for US cotton , then at DM 3.98–4.02 this will cost DM 16.08m ( $4m × DM4.02 ) . |
| 30 | When this sterling is used to pay for UK exports and is then deposited back in the banks by the exporters , credit will be created on the basis of it , leading to a multiplied increase in money supply . |