51. Furthermore, I found this had to be paid for in Belgian francs, and that sterling was not accepted without conversion. 52. Subsidies might be paid in cases of emergency but could not be accounted normal income. 53. The majority of British undergraduate students have their fees paid in full by a grant-giving body, and many also receive a cash grant. 54. I was paid in coinage. 55. Frame rents were high and the six masters used the truck system of payment, whereby some of the wages were paid in goods. 56. Items under twenty-five pounds must be paid for in cash and no deposits will be accepted on these. 57. The term blackmail seems to derive from an old English word mail, meaning tribute or rents paid in work, goods, crops or base metal. 58. He paid it in the same spirit that he washed himself-obsessively. |