Example sentences of "been paid for " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said he had been paid for the picture , but admitted that ‘ in order to entice bidders ’ he had agreed with Sotheby 's that payment would be spread over three instalments . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | These imports have to be paid for and what is interesting — and why manufacturing is vital to us — is that over the past hundred years , if not longer , seventy per cent of these imports have been paid for by the export of British manufactured goods . |
| 5 | He had been paid for by his country of origin — reared and raised as capitalist underdevelopment had willed it for the labour markets of Europe . ’ |
| 6 | Columbia 's recent spending spree has partly been paid for by Sony . |
| 7 | ‘ Some of our members are owed nothing , some have been overpaid and some have not yet been paid for the 1990 harvest , ’ said Mr Corbett . |
| 8 | They have not been paid for aerial installation work which BSB had promised to subsidise . |
| 9 | A surrender value may not be available if premiums have been paid for less than two years . |
| 10 | A paid-up policy is only available if premiums have been paid for three years and the reduced sum is £400 or more . |
| 11 | J. H.E.P. is cheap to produce , once the cost of the dam , the power station and the cables for distribution of the electricity have been paid for . |
| 12 | The preoccupations of this text are most readily explained on the view that , to bar missio , value had to have been paid for an object under trust . |
| 13 | He had heard that forty pounds a year had been paid for a girl to be looked after in the asylum of Dr Perfect in West Malling . |
| 14 | Jalhousie is an all-inclusive resort which means that when you arrive everything has already been paid for . |
| 15 | Although gays continue to be present in these organisations in large numbers , it is interesting to see what price has been paid for continued government funding . |
| 16 | Selling goods that have not been paid for appears to need redress . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | A consignment of vital arms for the war with the accursed President Sadeq of Iraq had been paid for by Teheran , to be delivered by ship . |
| 19 | Our new £250,000 maintenance depot at Churston has been paid for out of revenue as well as footbridge repairs at Churston , a new signalling system and major works at Kingswear station . |
| 20 | The nursing advertisement would have been paid for by the DoH . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Dentists have traditionally been paid for filling holes ; people are unwilling to pay them for much else . |
| 24 | The new pitch is made of synthetic Baspograss , packed with sand and backed with a rubber cushion to minimise wear , and has been paid for by a variety of bodies both local and national . |
| 25 | Digfar was run almost entirely by local Somali staff — 25 doctors and nearly 100 nurses — who had not been paid for over two years . |
| 26 | Furthermore three of the company 's directors , who had never met , had been paid for use of their names . |
| 27 | In April 1983 , teachers reported that in some areas they had not been paid for four months and 828 schools had been closed down . |
| 28 | Cottam suggested that he too should have been paid for his fortnight 's service , but the Governors replied that they were under the impression that " his services had been tendered on behalf of and as the personal friend of Mr. Hamilton " . |
| 29 | The difference is that the copy has been supplied by a PRO and the photography and space have been paid for by that PRO 's company or organisation . |
| 30 | 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 . |