Example sentences of "more [subord] [verb] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | So instead , I refined my masturbation in combination with my hawk-eyed recollection to produce a variety of sexual experience which — ( I now realise ) — more than compensated for the absence of the real thing . |
| 2 | Lower interest rates in 1992 more than compensated for the effect of higher average debt levels . |
| 3 | As a consequence , greater virulence should be favoured if enough offspring of other wasps can be infected to more than compensate for the subsequent loss of extra offspring from the current host . |
| 4 | By seeming to do little more than wait for the economy to get better by itself , President Bush condemned himself . |
| 5 | ‘ Roll your own ’ more than compensates for the lifelessness of other parts of the book . |
| 6 | There is nothing cruel or stupid about providing a benefit system which more than compensates for the 20 per cent . |
| 7 | It is a programme that holds out more than hope for the underclass . |
| 8 | In 1977 , the Labour Health Secretary David Ennals said : ‘ In the present economic climate the Government can do little more than provide for the increasing number of old people , leaving a small margin for improvements in method of treatment . ’ |