Example sentences of "[modal v] pay [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some Conservative members of Parliament would like to retain its principle — that everyone should pay something . |
| 2 | We all recall that in the heyday of the poll tax the one principle that Ministers and Conservative Members were most reluctant to abandon was that everyone should pay something . |
| 3 | well it is vanity , their health 's not gon na improve by er , with their breasts enlarged so I do n't see why the National Health should pay for that , if they want that doing they should pay themselves , different in Claire 's case because she 's got one breast extremely small and one large one so she 's got a deformity , that 's different , correcting a deformity 's different , but if you just wan na go from a size thirty two to a thirty six B , then you should pay for it do n't you think ? |
| 4 | I obliged with iron-toothed Baba Yaga , and the newsagent asked how much he should pay me . |
| 5 | ’ Maybe you should pay them . |
| 6 | Someone thinks I should pay them ten thousand pounds . |
| 7 | Government decided that the whole of the railway freight business should pay its way . |
| 8 | The problem hinges upon fundamental areas such as price — how much British Gas should pay its UK suppliers — and also on what is the real nature of the problem . |
| 9 | Octavia Hill believed , with most other Victorians , that housing should pay its way to her , housing subsidies were unthinkable . |
| 10 | 1781 " The Society for Propagating Christian Knowledge having appointed a Schoolmaster for the Parish of Kildaltan , with a Sallary of six pounds sterl. , on the Express condition that the Parish should pay him four pound more — Therefore the Parish of Kildaltan are Stented with the said sum . |
| 11 | I ask that you should pay what I have provided and legated and what I shall provide and legate in codicils . ’ |
| 12 | But enormous sums are also being spent by polluters and their insurers , not just on cleaning up but also on legal fees , as the courts struggle to decide who should pay what share of the bills . |
| 13 | Eventually , together , we persuaded the man that Nelia should pay what she owed in instalments . |
| 14 | There may be a dispute over the amount of settlement and in such circumstances we should pay what we believe represents ‘ indemnity ’ whilst continuing any dialogue with the policyholder . |
| 15 | The debate about who should pay what tax in the underdeveloped world has moved centre stage . |
| 16 | It was an important principle that these housing schemes should pay their way . |
| 17 | When the government decreed that student numbers should be cut , that university grants be cut , and that overseas students should pay their full fees for courses and board in the UK , LSHTM with its large overseas intake suffered initially only as badly as other London colleges . |
| 18 | People should pay their community charge . |
| 19 | A minimum wage involves the Government dictating to private employers what they should pay their workers . |
| 20 | She was told that it was the law to pay the full amount and she must pay it in full , and her answer was that it was the law last year that everyone should pay their own bills , and what happened to them ? |
| 21 | That twenty three pound odd what we had to pay , they said we should pay nothing . |
| 22 | She said I should pay her more attention , I was always round at the Club with my drinking mates . |
| 23 | I insisted that I should pay her a rent of five shillings a week and also asked her , somewhat tentatively , if she felt able to come and have tea with my mother in Romford . |
| 24 | It is time that Tory Members understood that they should pay theirs , too . |
| 25 | Who are these anonymous people in the organization making decisions on pay ( " The company should pay us more " ) or on other issues ( " The company should take a tougher line against the competition " ) ? |
| 26 | If you now wish to be included on the Society 's insurance , from September , you should pay your insurance fee at the September Q.T. day . |
| 27 | In such a case , we should pay our proportion and allow the NCD as the policyholder has not intimated a claim under the Home policy . |
| 28 | All the same , I insisted that we should pay our share of the electricity , heating , et cetera , and made her agree to that . |
| 29 | She says it 's a big bill and the police should pay it . |
| 30 | Erm , I do n't think we should pay it |