Example sentences of "[det] [subord] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The day was a resounding success and achieved some local press coverage if not as much as hoped for and of course there is the sponsorship money which the groups has raised for Amnesty . |
| 2 | It is about personal experience of particular brands as much as looking for the numbers . |
| 3 | Some demolition of property and setting back of frontages was completed , but by no means as much as provided for in the Act . |
| 4 | Courier , who took an undistinguished 2-5 Davis Cup record into the match , explained his past failures by saying perhaps he wanted it too much when playing for his country . |
| 5 | First he had to sort out the embarrassed financial affairs of his brother John , which had been neglected by the latter whilst working for the Company . |
| 6 | At such close quarters , mistakes would have been more than evident but to the merit of all those involved , these were at a minimum and more than compensated for by sheer enthusiasm . |
| 7 | This may entail a major upheaval , but it will be more than compensated for later this month . |
| 8 | For anyone who does a lot of knitting , the initial time spent learning how to use the program will be more than compensated for , because once you have saved your work on to disk , the same garment shape and / or stitch pattern can be used time and time again . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The insects are only an annoyance on the rare days when there is n't a breeze blowing , and are more than compensated for by the wealth of bird life in the area And it is not only birds . |
| 11 | But the inward drift slows slightly as the extra dissipative losses are more than compensated for by the energy and angular momentum which the bar pumps in at this point — recall that the bar is here going around faster than the gas , so it has a tendency to spin the gas up as well as a tendency to cause it to radiate vigorously . |
| 12 | This is more of a glider trait and , while it takes a little getting used to , it is more than compensated for by the aircraft 's power-off glide abilities . |
| 13 | However , his sufferings in the Sahara were more than compensated for when the Sports Council voted him Sports Photographer of the Year for 1989 in recognition of his work in the Super Marathon . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Whatever such a literature might lack in technical sophistication will , it is alleged , be more than compensated for by ideological exuberance . |
| 16 | It must have more than compensated for being shot down , or blown to bits . |
| 17 | As the black hole loses mass , the area of its event horizon gets smaller , but this decrease in the entropy of the black hole is more than compensated for by the entropy of the emitted radiation , so the second law is never violated . |
| 18 | Lower interest rates in 1992 more than compensated for the effect of higher average debt levels . |
| 19 | Hence the loss of areas 3 + 5 to the UK is more than compensated for by the remittance of profits from Germany , as area 10 is greater than areas 3 + 5 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | By seeming to do little more than wait for the economy to get better by itself , President Bush condemned himself . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | ‘ Roll your own ’ more than compensates for the lifelessness of other parts of the book . |
| 24 | 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 ’ . |
| 25 | I personally think the strength bonus their weapon gives more than compensates for their lack of a shield . |
| 26 | One fine day and such a trip as this more than compensates for all the bad ones . |
| 27 | There is nothing cruel or stupid about providing a benefit system which more than compensates for the 20 per cent . |
| 28 | Attaining maximum health involves much more than aiming for a low weight . |
| 29 | It is a programme that holds out more than hope for the underclass . |
| 30 | 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 . ’ |