Example sentences of "[subord] [verb] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As luck would have it , my best friend is the most wonderful cook in the world , and her contributions to any cottage holiday more than compensate for those who come with a tin of sardines in tomato sauce and a Pot Noodle . |
| 2 | But the promotion of Gillian Shephard to the Cabinet should more than compensate for any misgivings ’ , Sangster said . |
| 3 | SEP had simply assumed that expenditure on upkeep would more than compensate for any deterioration of its warehouses ’ . |
| 4 | Brian Ervine ( Ballydrain ) , last year 's Northern Ireland champion , brings a wealth of experience to the side , and although sidelined for much of the season due to a thigh injury , will be operating at full throttle in France . |
| 5 | Brian Ervine ( Ballydrain ) , last year 's Northern Ireland champion , brings a wealth of experience to the side , and although sidelined for much of the season due to a thigh injury , will be operating at full throttle in France . |
| 6 | It seems likely that improvements in the health and work capacity of the elderly population over the last eighty years have more than compensated for any putative increase in the physical and mental demands of employment ; if so , rising retirement rates may reflect a decrease in the demand for the labour of elderly workers over a period in which their employment capacity has risen . |
| 7 | Mustelids are intermediate between categories 2 and 3 ( Table 3.13 ) , with only 24 per cent of the incisors digested but the degree of digestion is heavier than seen for most category 2 predators ( Fig. 3.24 G ) . |
| 8 | In rainy weather , they sometimes concentrate on the less nutritious foods rather than search for more fruit , but in fruiting trees seem not to pay much attention to other frugivores though they eat most , and that wastefully . |
| 9 | People tend to admire common sense and strong business instincts rather than going for those who can out- think the competition . ’ |
| 10 | That suggestion is not itself a checkerboard solution : each state would retain a constitutional duty that its own abortion statute be coherent in principle , and the suggestion offers itself as recognizing independent sovereigns rather than speaking for all together . |
| 11 | One fine day and such a trip as this more than compensates for all the bad ones . |
| 12 | The New York Times 's Vincent Canby wrote : ‘ There is nothing obviously glossy in Midnight Cowboy , but it contains a lot of superior laughter that has the same softening effect , ’ yet he found the central relationship was ‘ as honest and affecting as anything you 're likely to see in a movie , and more than compensates for those moments when the film seems to be exploiting its cheap , gaudy locale as might the director of a sight-seeing bus cruising through West 42nd Street and Greenwich Village ’ . |
| 13 | By contrast , purchases bought with credit cards and shop accounts turned out to be less expensive than planned for more people than average . |
| 14 | The right-wing coalition knows better than to ask for any help from the Greens . |
| 15 | This partly explains why , although functioning for many recent years in ways similar to banks , they have been exempt from regulations applying to banks and have been supervised by the Registrar of Friendly Societies rather than by the Bank of England . |
| 16 | In the GDR , the Wachsregimente of the Ministry of State Security ( MfS ) and the Bereitschaftspolizei of the Ministry of the Interior have more than sufficed for this purpose , enabling the NVA to keep its hands clean and its morale high . |
| 17 | It is best to use lime rather than cement for this type of infill |
| 18 | Computerisation , although established for some time in sales and administration , has been introduced to Production Control . |
| 19 | as if to compensate for this , he applied military techniques in the colony . |
| 20 | He stared down at her for a few seconds , almost as if searching for some clue hidden in her expression . |
| 21 | The Law Society 's rules of professional conduct do provide exemptions for this , but even so , a conveyancer should not be too quick to use those exemptions if acting for both sides might conceivably lead to a compromise or a difficult situation . |
| 22 | And when it was over and their tears had dried , they lay like spoons , curved together as if made for each other , and slept . |
| 23 | The spider-web lightning twitched and surged at the windows , as if hunting for some small crack in the glass through which it could get to them . |
| 24 | However , the practical implementation of these specialised services is too cumbersome for regular use outside these fields of activity , and more general services such as Telecom Gold , whilst offering the possibility of adequate authentication , can prove expensive ( and thus unattractive ) if used for that purpose . |
| 25 | Anton though , as if waiting for this opening , Parker 's panic , caught him for his best bite yet , a chunk : with all of his teeth , his werewolf mouth , from high inside of a beefy thigh . |
| 26 | Mother and daughter were glad of each other 's company then , while the electric storm boomed and crashed around them in the black night , as if aiming for this one exposed place . |
| 27 | Some manufacturers pack 20 litre quantities in square sectioned metal drums but these are difficult to handle and tend to corrode , spoiling the contents , if stored for any period of time . |
| 28 | When the couple had gone upstairs to bed , Mr Stephens packed his bag for the next day 's outing , bolted the doors firmly — for many of the men stayed in Cockermouth drinking for three or four days and would roam the streets at night looking for somewhere to sleep — and then , as if to atone for those first designs he had on Emily , he picked out Silas Marner from his bookshelf and wrapped it up as a present for her . |
| 29 | If left for more than about 20 minutes after a run , it takes several turns of the starter before it fires . |
| 30 | Believers then follow the practice of the person who stubs his foot on a stone and looks upwards with the cry , ‘ Oh God ! ’ as if hoping for some sympathetic supernatural spectator to be looking down on what is happening . |