Below you will find example sentences with "licence fee". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.
Licence Fee in a sentence
Corpus data
- Displayed example sentences: 20
- Discovered as a combination around: fee
- Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 11
- Phrase length: 2 words
- Average sentence length: 26.2 words
Sentence profile
- Phrase position: 6 start, 12 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis
- The phrase "licence fee" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 26.2 words and is mostly made up of statements.
- Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as 159 tv licence fee means you, a new licence fee hike has, bbc, government and new stand out.
- In the phrase index, this combination connects with annual fee, adoption fee, application fee, annual fee, application fee and monthly fee, linking the page to nearby combinations.
Example types with licence fee
This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:
Thus the promised end of the licence fee before the current charter expires in 2027. (15 words)
A commercial version of it could survive without the licence fee, but is that what we want? (17 words)
As we all know, not having a £159 TV Licence fee means you are breaking the law. (17 words)
Providing the licence isn’t surrendered or lapses due to insolvency or death, the holder of the licence can continue to operate as long as they keep up with the annual licence fee, which they have been doing, so the licence remains in place. (44 words)
The 14 regional regulatory authorities for the private broadcasters are also funded by the licence fee (and not by government grants), and in some states, non-profit community radios also get small amounts of the licence fee. (37 words)
The Department concluded that the licence fee was "the least worse sic option". citation The British government described the licence fee system as "the best (and most widely supported) funding model, even though it is not perfect". (37 words)
A commercial version of it could survive without the licence fee, but is that what we want? (17 words)
Example sentences (20)
Providing the licence isn’t surrendered or lapses due to insolvency or death, the holder of the licence can continue to operate as long as they keep up with the annual licence fee, which they have been doing, so the licence remains in place.
It comes as the director general of the BBC described his pleasure at the new licence fee settlement with the government, which will see the price of the licence fee hiked from April.
The 14 regional regulatory authorities for the private broadcasters are also funded by the licence fee (and not by government grants), and in some states, non-profit community radios also get small amounts of the licence fee.
The Department concluded that the licence fee was "the least worse sic option". citation The British government described the licence fee system as "the best (and most widely supported) funding model, even though it is not perfect".
I remember some joker bending Terry Wogan’s one in half once, so they probably have them under lock and key now to save licence fee payers’ licence fees.
Portugal The licence fee was abolished in 1992 by the Cavaco Silva government, the fee funded the national public broadcaster RTP (Rádio e Televisão de Portugal).
A commercial version of it could survive without the licence fee, but is that what we want?
A new licence fee hike has sparked renewed calls for the charge to be axed with campaigners warning it faces a mass boycott.
As we all know, not having a £159 TV Licence fee means you are breaking the law.
At a time when many are questioning the licence fee, alienating allies will only cause further reputational damage.
For the past two years the licence fee has been frozen at the price of £159 but it was previously agreed it would rise in line with inflation after April 2024.
It needs to save a further £285 million in response to the announcement in January 2022 that the licence fee will be frozen for the next two years.
Now I'm not a habitual BBC-basher, and I can see an argument for retaining the licence fee.
Sir John criticised the BBC’s “licence fee tax model” as he said the broadcaster’s revenues are being “eroded” by viewers switching to streaming services.
The licence fee system is "regressive", he said, and could instead be replaced by a tax on broadband bills or a household levy based on property value.
The pay deal resulted in a collapse of licence fee payments, a salary cap for new contracts at RTÉ, and the resignation of several executives.
Thus the promised end of the licence fee before the current charter expires in 2027.
Toft explains: “There are ways to avoid the licence fee rise for those looking to save the pennies.
Viewers announced on Twitter that they had cancelled their TV licence fee in response to a day of controversy for the BBC.
Wang says the terms prevent her from disclosing monetary details, which include a licence fee and an additional payment that she will donate to a cause that supports translators of Sinophone poetry.